Minimizing police injuries isn’t going to help ashli.
Here’s a another take.
“Riley told the rioter that the scene was a “total s—show.” “I’m glad you got out of there unscathed. We had over 50 officers hurt, some pretty bad,” the officer wrote, according to the complaint.”
The only people who are ignoring the facts related to the shooting are the Capitol Police, the Democrat Administration and folks like you. Read those guidelines carefully. There was nothing about the shooting incident that fits those requirements for using lethal force.
How many of those other injury incidents was Ashli involved in? How many of the other demonstrators who were involved in those other injury incidents shot by a police officer?
But you are right. None of that is going to help Ashli … she’s dead,
Actually Ms. Babbitt was part of a riotous mob that had demonstrated a willingness to use violence and improvised melee weapons to breech a law enforcement barricade, which presented a clear and present danger of death or serious bodily injury to law enforcement and others on the other side of the barricade.
That made the shooting justifiable when looking at the totality of the circumstances that Lt. Byrd faced that day and had heard over the radio. Reasonable people understand that and that is why the law specifically notes the applicability of the reasonableness standard.
Being part of the mob is not justification to shoot whomever a cop wants to shoot. Her specific individual conduct, while clearly illegal, did not constitute a deadly threat which means the shooting was unjustified. And presumption of Byrd’s fear based on your assessment of his situation only reinforces the theory that he panicked. Panic certainly explains his action, but in no way does it justify it. Read those guidelines … nothing that occurred at that stairwell doorway fits those justifications.
Ms. Babbitt was part of a riotous mob that had demonstrated a willingness to use violence and improvised melee weapons to breech a law enforcement barricade, which presented a clear and present danger of death or serious bodily injury to law enforcement and others on the other side of the barricade.
That made the shooting justifiable when looking at the totality of the circumstances that Lt. Byrd faced that day and had heard over the radio. Reasonable people understand that and that is why the law specifically notes the applicability of the reasonableness standard.
What the mob did or was doing elsewhere does not justify what happened at that doorway. If it was such a threatening situation, why didn’t any of the cops on her side of the doors decide she needed to be shot to stop her? Were they being unreasonable in downplaying the threat?
