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Very important thread. The sort of reconstruction bellingcat excels at. Multiple videos synchronized from multiple angles showing precisely what was happening when Ashli Babbitt was shot. A mob was pushing against a barricaded Speakers lobby, which leads into the House ... https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1347426236218400769
2/ Chamber. This was at the point when members were still barricaded in the chamber. A capitol police office is holding a trained gun on the crowd. Babbitt begins to climb through the shattered window, is warned to stop. Then the police officer fires a single shot and she ...
3/ falls back mortally wounded.
4/ My point in this thread is simply to share these videos. I shld add, based on what we see here, we have a police officer behind a barricade holding off an armed mob from rushing most of the key people in the US govt/line of succession. He gives multiple warnings and...
5/ then finally shoots to kill when one of the attackers tries to break through. The result is tragic but both legally and practically the shooting seems entirely justified. Indeed it wld have seemed negligent to do anything else. Obviously you need an investigation ...
6/ to make a legal determination. But based on these videos it seems clear cut.
