The Shooting Of Ashli Babbitt Was Totally Justifiable And She Should Have Known That Better Than Most People

 I got into an online brawl over the police shooting of Ashli Babbitt, the woman who was shot as she was at the front of the insurrectionists trying to break into the Speaker's Lobby at the Capitol, part of a group of hundreds of armed thugs who were rampaging as a third of the United States government were sheltering in place, many of them in the exact location which the police were trying to hold,  the door from the mob Babbitt was at the front of, the officers' guns drawn in full view of those at the glass doors which the mob was attacking.  

I have absolutely no problem with the officer(s) who shot and killed one of that mob, someone whose identity and intentions and abilities to carry out those intentions they had little idea of in the split seconds they had to react in fulfillment of their duties, to protect the members of Congress, Congressional staff, and other innocent people NONE OF WHOM WERE INCLUDED IN THE MOB ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DOOR.

While the suspension and investigation of the officer(s) who shot her is an important and necessary formality, the incident as it happened could not have been more obvious an act of police hired to protect people from people who were not only reasonably believed to be a danger to them BUT AS THEY WERE PROCLAIMING THEIR DANGER TO THEM.    Officers who fired on the mob breaking in those doors WERE DOING THEIR JOB AS IT WAS REASONABLY AND OBVIOUSLY UNDERSTOOD.  They certainly had every reason to believe that mob was as much a danger to their fellow officers and themselves as to the Democratic Congressmen who were the primary targets of the violence.

All of the Capitol and other police who tried to defend the Congress, Congressional Staff, other innocent civilians at enormous personal danger to themselves - AS CAN BE SEEN BY ONE OF THEM BEING MURDERED DURING THE INSURRECTION AND OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED, all of those who fulfilled their duty deserve to be honored for what they did, including shooting one of the mob at the door.   

Ashli Babbitt had military training, she more than most of the Rexal Rangers and others whose training probably consisted of watching Hollywood movies should have known the possible consequences of what she was doing.  From what I've read, I think she was driven nuts by what she was obsessed with online and in other hate-talk media.   That's what fueled this insurrection, that and the Republcan-fascist party that is the beneficiary of the permission given by the Supreme Court for the media to lie with impunity.   If you want to see federal employees who should be suspended, punished and removed from their jobs, it's the Supreme Court who set off the match that may burn the entire thing to the ground.   

 

Again, as with the guy with the heart condition who died of over exertion while part of a law-breaking mob and the foolish woman who got crushed or trampled to death (accounts I read differed) while carrying a fucking stupid Don't Tread On Me flag, if their families and loved ones want to hold someone responsible, they can look at their loved ones who were breaking the law, endangering innocent people and the politicians and cabloid media and social-disease media that put them where they died.  From what I've read some of the families of some of them realize that.  Any who do are putting the responsibility for the deaths or harm to their loved ones in the right place.