Ashli Babbitt – A Veteran Death at the Capital
We are posting this because people have asked. Ashli Elizabeth Babbitt has been reported in the news to be the veteran that was shot and killed at the Capital building on January 6, 2021.
She served in the Air Force and Air National Guard under the name Ashli McEntee, her previous name through marriage.
Here is the video where she was shot. She died later at the hospital.
**WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO – MAY BE DISTURBING TO SOME**
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Here is the information on her military service.
So, her military service seems to be in line with what was reported in the media. She had a few charges of reckless endangerment, malicious destruction of property and damaging/tampering with a vehicle without the owner’s consent back in 2016 stemming from two incidents in Calvert County Maryland – but all charges were either dismissed and/or she was found not guilty.
You can read more about this on the Maryland case search site using ‘Ashli McEntee’ for her name: http://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/casesearch/processDisclaimer.jis
As I stated, she appears to have been acquitted of all charges.
The entire incident at the Capital recently was very tragic.
Her Facebook account has been taken down and Twitter says that her Twitter account has been suspended. It was up last night.
Category: Politics
Just to add to this (and feel free to delete this if another story is in the works), but Brian Sicknick, the Capitol Police officer who has now died, also served (Air National Guard) via two deployments in both Desert Shield and Enduring Freedom:
https://heavy.com/news/brian-sicknick/
He was struck in the head with a fire extinguisher by one of the rioters.
https://nypost.com/2021/01/07/us-capitol-police-officer-dies-after-dc-riots/
Yes. And either one easily preventable. And probably more so to the Capital Police Officer exercising his duty. That was absolutely heinous and unnecessary, and I would expect a Capital Murder charge. I don’t like you, or your blather and rhetoric. I usually never respond to or read your posts in their entirety. But hey, even a blind squirrel gets a nut a nut once in a while. Douche-Pickle you are.
(Say, updates to webpage or did I just get a Win 10 upgrade? Browser Update? Something cool happening. Still fuck him tho…)
RIP Officer Sicknick
Thank you, LC. I fear that Officer Sicknick’s sacrifice will be overshadowed here. He died for doing his job, serving his country. He was only 42.
There is no comparing his death to Babbitt’s other than to say they were both tragic and easily preventable.
The police did not seem to be in any danger so who the hell had to fire that shot. I have seen many more dangerous things done from Antifa/BLM that the police just backed away from or accepted without deciding to shoot.
Name edited to protect PII.
AW1
Nothing about the incident passes the smell test.
^THIS^ TOW! We do need more info all around. Somebody got the shooter very well hidden right now, and as David pointed out, everything and everybody around that area seems to be fairly calm. Imma gonna go with overly scared officer with a lack of training and not enough supervision.
Either way, a young Lady died, unarmed, and, from the video, there appears to be a number of popo BEHIND her when she was shot. I was not there, but it also appears that she was not an immediate threat to anyone. RIP Ashli.
Where is the line? They were 100 feet from sitting senators and congressman. They’d already breached multiple checkpoints. How far should they have been allowed to go? Where ever they want? No limit until they kill someone? Idiotic logic.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/investigations/video-shows-moments-leading-up-to-fatal-capitol-shooting-on-jan-6/2021/01/08/b7bd8f45-1250-463e-b73f-d218b39e7ed0_video.html?fbclid=IwAR1CSSZzX0N4FO5mB4_-8e5nLvWOgXW3U-KWXSuTXgtxoyGXYP3HlHEx8CM
The capital police were in a building that had been overrun by a mob.
There were pipe bombs rendered safe at the DNC/RNC headquarters.
The videos that have surfaced of this shooting showed a chaotic scene where it’s highly likely those behind the barricade did not know there were officers directly outside.
Mrs. Babbitt attempted to breach into an area that had been barricaded from the inside. This is a pretty good indicator those inside had no further room to retreat. It’s also reasonable to assume they were issuing commands and had their weapons drawn/pointed. I’m sure the majority of them were displaying their badge of authority. And from the reporting it also seems that there were people being protected.
She allowed herself to get swept up by the emotion of the mob, made a poor choice and paid the price for it.
As more information comes out this appears to fall under the lawful buy awful category.
If this had occurred at any of the other “mostly peaceful” riots that have been occurring over the last few months, I suspect the majority of the opinions here would’ve been along the lines of “oh well.”
Instead it seems as if a significant number of people here are taking exception because she was a vet and it was our “team” causing the mass disturbance.
That behavior is not ok. We have a mechanism to affect change and it isn’t mob violence.
Wasn’t ok when the left was doing it. And it isn’t ok now that some on the right are doing it.
I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it. Either the rules apply to everyone or they apply to no one.
You can’t attempt to take the seat of the nation’s government by force and expect a warm welcome. I’m sorry that she died, her own actions put her in front of that weapon. I’m absolutely stunned that given the overwhelming amount of force faced by the police, that there weren’t more shots fired and more dead. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
This all could have been avoided if those in charge had emplaced the barricades ahead of time (not just today), and requested sufficient troops on the ground the day of.
Locked the doors?
Closed and locked the fire isolation doors?
The dipshit D.C. mayor refused any additional federal assistance the day before the incident:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2021/01/07/dc-mayor-refused-any-federal-law-enforcement-help-prior-to-protests-n2582757
Took a chapter out of Teddi Soi Boi of PortaPottyLand’s book…
I’m also amazed things didn’t turn out worse. Considering the size of the crowd they were facing when she got shot, I’m beyond amazed there weren’t any sympathetic discharges.
What a shit show.
“the overwhelming amount of force faced by the police,”
Has *anyone* here bothered to watch the videos?
” I’m absolutely stunned that given the overwhelming amount of force faced by the police, that there weren’t more shots fired ”
Maybe because the police actually on the scene recognized that there was no threat to their physical safety and managed not to panic and get hysterical.
And maybe, they looked at how badly they were outnumbered, and said “fuck this, I’m not dying on this hilltop”.
Some of both, I suspect. Humans being a mixed bag in general.
Bullshit. That ain’t the politicians house. That is OUR HOUSE. More reliable reporting has her looking through a window and being shot at close range by one of those cops.
As for the rioting. Fine with it. We are out of options. Over 80 million people just got FUCKED. We have no more voice. We have no chance to win their rigged elections. Thus we have no ballot box, no soap box, and that leaves the cartridge box. And the socialist democrats are making gun confiscation a major priority, with half a dozen bills in the house for that already. Unarmed citizens equal slaves, particularly with this mob of criminals.
Get this people, they are not going to stop. Not until they get the message that actions have consequences, and that will require their blood being spilled. There is no limit to the number of revolutions or civil wars a nation can have.
“t’s also reasonable to assume they were issuing commands and had their weapons drawn/pointed….”
No, it’s not. Watch the damn videos.
The videos that don’t show who is on the other side of the door?
My standard is the same.
The VP was literally standing 30 feet away. Given the circumstances I think they showed restraint with a single shot.
I would be more convinced of that if there had been some warning given, or if the police officer involved had bothered to identify himself and his weapon to his target instead of lurking in a corner.
One should expect to be met by armed police if you decide to break into the Capital. No warning is necessary. A gun in your face and your compadres yelling “there’s a gun” is more than sufficient warning. It matters not one whit which side you’re on, that’s a dumbass move and a sure way to get shot.
There were half a dozen uniformed officers yelling at people to get back. Hard to see what other warning was needed.
Funny how after one was killed the others had a sudden lack of interest in finding out what was behind door #2.
Death was the answer.
Zero tolerance for rioting inside someone else’s place.
And that is -my- fucking Capitol Building, along with everyone else’s.
Right, because your initial position is the cops were wrong. Way to evaluate from a position of strength.
Way to decide the guy in the arena is the one in the wrong
“because your initial position is the cops were wrong.”
Is mind reading your profession or just a hobby?
No one was armed.
They figured it out quick-style.
Avoided a slaughter.
Common sense.
But no looting, burning and other crimes.
No BLM.
And LeChina James states “Double Standard?”
What about Hong Kong?
It’s not about them being in danger. The building was being over taken by numbers (notice didn’t say Force).
I believe it was one of the chamber undercover police, as type PSD for the Congress and Senate, so what would you have them do.
Don’t riot in other people’s homes or places of business.
The folks out on the Mall, hootin and hollerin and sign-waving were a peaceful protest, as were other folks doing same with different slogans elsewhere and elsewhen. It’s the American way, even if they seem like assholes. (And everyone is someone else’s asshole)
Busting in? Busting further in? Ransack? Destroy? One doing so is “burglar” and a mob doing so is “riot” . Doesn’t matter who or why.
The answer to “riot busting in” is riot guns and buckshot.
Don’t care why they riot. Don’t bust in if you don’t like the response.
“Stupid” is no excuse.
Now, if you had one job, to keep rioters out of the Capitol Building, and you screw the whole dogpound, the rioters are still wrong, but so are the pooch-screwers.
So where were all the “rooftop Korean” memes? Eh?
We don’t need stupid, and we don’t need infiltrating provocateurs “helping”. If you don’t exclude the nincompoops, you own the result.
Gee. I said that before. Hm.
Because the hallway that she was trying to enter lead to an area where congress men and women had not been evaluated yet.
RIP fellow Defender.
Someone’s head should roll for this for use of excessive force…but I doubt it will.
She was climbing through a broken window when she was shot. Was the area she attempted to breach a “use of deadly force authorized” kind of place?
Harry,
It was the “Speaker’s Lobby”,
the final buffer room before the Congressional Chamber.
Ah, I see.
The unclean female attempted to enter the Kodesh Hakodashim, that Holy of Holies the “Speaker’s Lobby” and was struck down by a servant of the God Capitol (a levite, no doubt) before she could profane the source of all Truth, Justice, and the American Way. Praise be to Congress!
Apparently this was the refuge area for Senators and civilians and they could have been invaded, terrorised,kidnapped, killed and injured. The line was drawn there.
Look to be several MAGA-hatted folks in there already who don’t seem to be getting shot. Matter of fact, this particular area looks relatively calm. A refuge area secured by breakable glass windows? Have to agree with TOW above, this doesn’t smell like a justified shooting. Does, however, smell like ‘panicky cop screwed the pooch’. More info needed.
I think it was one of those red lines that only the law enforcement sees in front of them and the perpetrated has no idea they are about to cross.
I think that was the last barrier between the rioters and the politicians he was protecting. He felt if he let a single person cross it the whole mob would soon follow.
The problem was they mob had been crossing barrier after barrier and line after line, and not knowing that was the last barrier she didn’t know that the officer giving her warnings was deadly serious, unlike the officers she and her fellow rioters had ignored to that point.
I think he could have made a different choice. But without more information we can’t know if he made a lawful choice.
Overall I think LEO use of force rules in the country is too broad and the consequences for violating them are too rare and too often too light.
But if you are protecting a senior leaders from a mob there has to be a point, a line, where the mob can’t be allowed to cross.
“I think it was one of those red lines that only the law enforcement sees in front of them and the perpetrated has no idea they are about to cross.”
Jeepers! We agree two days in a row?
They crossed the theoretical “red line” as soon as they entered the building.
I agree with you for the most part. However, a LEO pointing his weapon at you and telling you to stop- I think that there would be no ambiguity. I feel bad for her and those that she left behind, but she made a terrible choice and she paid the price for it.
My opinion, every single person that stormed the Capital and WH, should have been DRT. Regardless of what their political orientation was, and rest assured, both sides were represented ( I feel that there was a lot of underhanded acting going on. I have seen major Trump supporters at Trump rallies that didn’t wear that much Trump bling, seems they went over the top a little. I don’t buy that that they were all real Trump
Supporters) either way, you storm the capital- you get shot. You start breaking windows and whatever, that WE have to pay for- you get shot. You riot, loot, steal and burn down property that is not yours- you get shot. D.C., Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, etc- do stupid $h!t- you get shot. Time to get heads removed from anal openings.
Again, my opinion only.
Right, because a guy pointing a gun at you isn’t serious.
GFYS.
Only if you see him. I doubt she saw him since he was hiding off to the side and only popped out of cover to pull the trigger without any warning.
Maybe he could have hit her in the face with the gun and pushed her back? –Nah, too bloody
Stood directly in front of her, pointed the gun at her, and shouted at her to get back?—-nah, too scary.
Stood out in the open, fired a shot into the air, and shouted a warning?—nah, might have damaged the building and, again, too scary.
Smashed her with one of those chairs by the door and pushed her back to the other side, drawn his gun and announced he would shoot the next person through the door?–nah, too violent.
So much easier just to shoot first, and let the EMTs clean up the mess.
And maybe, a grown woman, military veteran, would be smart enough to not break into the building. That action started the series of events that ended in her death.
Her building. A lot of you morons don’t get that that building belongs to the people, not the fucking politicians. And he popped her from a place of concealment, at close range. Has already been suspended, and word is that he resigned after he committed that murder. Interesting how none of the false flag Antifa/BLDM assholes in that mob didn’t get harmed.
I wonder if the fucking politicians liked having a no knock raid done on them?
He gets due process, same as anyone.
“Suspension” is routine and administrative in any firearm discharge, and non-prejudicial.
Keep in mind, the defenders don’t know the motivations, capability, etc, of the demonstrably persistent intruders. The had a quite-proper mission to protect congresscritters from harm.
We asked them to protect our Congress, because those are our congresscritters.
Shitshow, yeah. But if you are posted on guard, do you let folks overrun you and reach your designated protected?
BS. The situation was nowhere near as grim as that.
Ya know, drawing lines doesn’t mean shit unless the other person sees the line.
Any reasonable human being knows that breaking into the Capital and attempting to occupy it by force will provoke an armed response. You don’t need to draw lines, post warnings, or have a sign language interpreter. If you’re a protester and don’t understand that, you probably shouldn’t be outside unattended.
“Any reasonable human being knows…”
FFS. Are you telling me every person you have ever met is a reasonable human being In all circumstances? You have never met or seen someone do dumbass things just because they were stupid for a moment? Hell, I have done a number of dumbass things, and I know of at least one other soldier who survived his tour in RVN only because I did not justifiably blow his ass away while he was doing a dumbass thing.
And it’s tough trying to put the pin back in a grenade in the dark. Particularly when your hands are shaking.
Further, any reasonable person in this country will expect a warning before lethal force is used. Any reasonable user of deadly force will give that warning.
https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2021/01/07/capitol-police-officer-who-shot-san-diego-woman-during-riot-placed-on-leave/
Report that unnamed officer involved has been put on leave IAW policy
Per the picture above she appears to have been Security Forces in USAF/ANG
What gets me from that video is all the asshats with cellphones crowding and videoing the event and not helping. Same goes for the assholes with real cameras.
They truly have no decency.
RIP Ashli
The best thing they could have done was to help by standing back and letting the police and EMTs do their job.
Agreed , but when the camera dropped down to her she was already posturing. Lady didn’t have a chance.
Can anyone else rant / yell / talk this fast?
While driving?
https://nypost.com/2021/01/08/ashli-babbitt-once-harassed-and-chased-husbands-ex/
Couldn’t finish it. Excitable, wasn’t she?
She had passion for her causes. Rather have her on my side than against me. RIP
Mustang Major,
I’ll disagree with you on this one.
The moment she left the peaceful outdoor activities,
and charged through the broken doors,
even before she tried to climb through a broken window,
she gave up her veteran status,
and became no better than the various leftwingnuts
who spent 2020 breaking in, burning, and looting around the USA.
Sad she didn’t figure out the line in the sand.
One distinction, and it’s an important one that seems to have been overlooked or ignored, is that this group attacked the very government with which they took issue – rather than harassing innocent/uninvolved citizens or businesses, as per BLM & Antifa over the summer (possibly excepting their attacks on federal buildings).
I’m not defending either mob and feel they have much in common despite their disparate points of view. I’m just saying the Capitol is a more “legitimate” target, and arguably the academic difference between insurrection and terrorism.
In any fight between Stupidity and Ignorance, Wisdom would be unwise to attempt to break it up.
And, on Parler, the Q folks, naturally, are claiming she ain’t dead:
https://www.newsweek.com/qanon-ashli-babbitt-alive-conspiracy-lin-wood-1559989
Lin Wood, lawyer extraordinaire, is among them. The guy who claimed Epstein, also, is still alive, and that Pence should be shot. I think the latter is what got his Twitter permanently banned.
Left, right, whatever.. reasonable people should denounce this idiocy in unison.
I think Lin is just an opportunistic grifter.
The guy should be charged for some of the nonsense, though he almost certainly will get a blanket pardon before Trump leaves office.
He will, however, face civil suits.
I actually think he’s a ‘true believer’. He’s apparently suggested he’s the second-coming of Jesus, thinks Chief Justice Roberts had something to do with Scalia’s death, and more. Prior post here:
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=108382&cpage=1#comment-3346407
I do hope he gets his comeuppance in court, too, though.
Her death was a tragedy,
Made worse by the fact that she thought she was fighting for our democracy.
Lied to by her president, his enablers, opportunistic politicians, and a propaganda network that profits off lying and misleading the American people.
I don’t know that she consumed news from CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, or Washington Post.
Nice try. When I was talking about lying propagandists it must of felt a little personal to you.
The only question is if you know you are full of shit or not.
I do know that you have taken over Poe’s responsibilities of regurgitating the propaganda narrative of the day.
You and Poe, like the Sith; there is always two.
Always with the negative waves!
Always with the personal attacks!
Always a spapos! ALWAYS!
And whose lies about a “stolen election” were recently used as a pretext to try to overthrow our democracy and install a despot?…
Oh, that’s right; yours and the far right media machine.
Are you merely a useful fool, a brainwashed cultist, or a traitor?
Honestly, hard to tell.
I have to say that anyone on the left of the political spectrum would have to HONESTLY admit that there is serious concerns about election fraud regarding the recent elections. If there is nothing to hide, let’s look at it ALL together and decide. When you try to hide it, it would naturally seem that there is something to hide, PERIOD!!!!! ( funny thing is that you put -stolen election- in quotes.)
Which brings me to my point, IF the election was stolen ( and no one seems to be trying to prove that it wasn’t) WHO is actually trying to overthrow our democracy?
And, BTW, “brainwashed cultist”??? Pot, meet black!
This election was the most investigated national election in American political history.
Several recounts, dozens of oversight investigations, some swing states literally live streamed the counting of ballots..,
And there were 60 lawsuits. While some were dismissed for lack of standing, Most had “evidence” presented…
And in a few judges DEMANDED that Trump’s lawyers present evidence.
Several Trump lawyers are now facing legal sanctions for violating their state bar rules for false claims in their lawsuits.
Some are facing multimillion and even billion dollar lawsuits.
And right wing news agencies, also facing lawsuits, are starting to retract their claims.
There was no election theft. Trump made up the claim entirely to protect his wounded ego and an army of zombie fans and enablers immediately started regurgitating the claim, inventing baseless conspiracy theories, spinning small election issues into claims of systematic fraud, and even manufacturing false evidence.
The election was not stolen and this election was far more transparent and better managed than any national election in at least a century and a half.
Couple of things, they recounted the audits, not the votes. There’s a bed as much transparency in this election as there was under the Obama administration. Remember all the closed door meetings and closed door session, were no news media was allowed? I do. And what right wing news medias do you speak of? There are so few out there. Fox isn’t even right wing anymore.
If it wasn’t for being so sad, it would be fun to watch you try to explain away the mess that the Democrats are about to create for this country.
Lars, I can’t make up my mind as to whether you’re a worthless weasel or just a really sick puppy…
At least I didn’t try to overthrow our democracy.
Professional liars like you did. Or were you also just a useful fool?
“At least I didn’t try to overthrow our democracy.”
Try not to sound like that guy Lin you were just talking about. If that was trump et al.’s attempt to overthrow democracy we have nothing to worry about. They may have missed lunch but they were all home by dinnertime. Pitiful.
“At least I didn’t try to overthrow our democracy”
Says the major who shitcanned his oath and became an antifa medic.
👍
Not an Antifa medic. A protest street medic.
And there is no oath violation in that.
You openly supported overthrow of rule of law in Seattle.
Who was it that said “one person’s anarchy is another’s libertarianism”
That would be you.
Who said “only 200 businesses were burned, so few I can hardly find any.”
Also you.
I was just being lazy. A more interested person could likely find a lot more of your steaming turds.
A medic at antifa led riots. Protests have no need of medics. Fraud.
Did I miss your defense of all the riots?
👍
We are a Constitutional Republic…..NOT a Democracy, where the mob rules. Try to at least get that right.
Damn!!! 👍👍👍
It is strange that he keeps tossing that “D” word around yet it appears nowhere in the Constitution of the United States.
It’s that high fallutin edumacation that he has from his Socialist/communist profs at Bezerkeley.
You openly supported throwing out the results of an election and a mob occupied the Capitol building to do just that.
You openly supported mob rule.
You traitor.
You openly supported mob rule in Seattle.
Traitor and hypocrite.
Yes you did, you fucking traitor. You and the other socialist dems and the people who committed acts of sedition while stealing the election. And now you get to be on the other side of the coin, where we do everything we can to undermine, inhibit, and damage the current illegitimate government put in place through fraud and theft. Go fuck yourself.
Anyway, Poe,
I don’t see the point in arguing about this, not today.
I just can’t help but wonder how guys like you feel no responsibility for what happened Wednesday.
You mean like the way you expressed your sense of remorse and responsibility for all the death and damage resulting from your antifa buddies’ actions?
Is that what you mean, sick puppy, hmm?
Those were “peaceful protests” Poe… gotta get the narrative right.
“I just can’t help but wonder how guys like you feel no responsibility for what happened Wednesday.”
I can’t help but wonder how anyone with pretensions of knowledge of history or politics does not recognize that idea for what it is.
Never stopped you before, fraud.
“opportunistic politicians, and a propaganda network that profits off lying and misleading the American people.”
You just described the Most dems, most republicans and the MSM.
I hope that you don’t actually believe that the Trump and his team/supporters have a monopoly on it. In fact, I do believe Trump is one of the most honest people in the civilian govt. just because you don’t like him or what he says, doesn’t make it a lie.
Those around her seem like Antifa to me….
Her twitter account is full of retweets of Lin Wood. She drank the Kool Aid. She was a true believer. Too bad she paid for this with her life.
Pretty extreme to use term tragedy, especially when you rampage on government facilities. Common sense on what you should do and what you should not do.
Guess black individual battle ramming car into fence…bad. But white veteran who had criminal history trying to pry into chambers…dont shoot, not a threat.
Come on people, get your consistency straight here.
I didn’t check in on the other post, but I did review some of the hypocritical, completely out of touch comments here. Very disappointing.
This young lady clearly violated her oath, and while I am sad that she had to die for her treason, whoever shot her was completely justified. I am disappointed in her almost as much as I am disappointed in most of you on this board.
I can only hope that the people that were with her are thinking seriously about the error of their ways, but just like most of you I doubt they are- hey, they probably got a few good selfies as she bled out, and this will make a great story at the next wannabe meeting.
She, as part of a mob, was storming the seat of government. The officers inside had no idea if the insurrectionists were going to take selfies, take hostages, or take the lives of the citizens inside. All they knew for certain is that it was their sworn duty to protect them. When the protesters entered the building they forfeited their lives and liberty. No warnings are required at that point.
She invaded the people’s house, the people’s guardians responded with lethal force. I’m surprised you didn’t make this the Wednesday Feel Good Story.
As a reminder, I am posting here because someone needs to remind you all of your oaths and reflect back to you the things you have all sworn to be your values over the past year.
Again, I won’t read any of your comments because I already know what you will say. Responding to them is of course beneath my dignity.
I like to mentally masturbate to my politically correct thoughts and to those of Commissar. He’s my BFF and you should worship his superior intellect like I do!
Agreed, she knew what the fuck she was doing. Embrassing that she is a military member knowing what she was doing was wrong.
Not a tragedy, fucking stupid and pointless.
You SIR, seem to be a Coward!!! I may have served under you in 03-04!
He is a coward… yellow bellied, pinko coward, First Class.
“Again, I won’t read any of your comments because I already know what you will say. Responding to them is of course beneath my dignity.”
You, sir, are mot just a pompous fool–you belabor us with your pomposity to such an extent that you have made yourself into a veritable parody of a pompous fool, dragging your supposedly vaunted dignity through this forum of your military peers in a manner totally lacking in dignity.
You, sir, are an abject, pompous fool…
“not” just a pompous fool…
That is totally correct asshole. The part about all enemies foreign and domestic. The current incoming illegitimate government very clearly constitutes enemies domestic in that part of the oath. Those socialist democrats and their government are no different than the British government we initially rebelled against, except they are closer and more accessible.
Get a shot of oxygen and a clue.
If you recall, Colonel, I called you out when you first showed up on this forum, for your being such a pretentious asshole who talked down to everyone instead of trying to reason and/or explain your opinions.
You haven’t changed–in fact you’re worse–because not only are you still a pretentious asshole, you’re also an insufferably smug, know-it-all asshole.
I truly feel sorry for the troops who had to serve under you.
And stop with the patently false, “I don’t read your responses,” crap, because you and all the rest of us here know that’s a laughable lie.
I’m beginning to think you share some of Lar’s masochist tendencies…
I bet he was a hoot at the O Club, Poe… a real “wiener”.
With his attitude, he’d have gotten his pompous ass kicked regularly at the NCO Club…
Or the CPO club…
Wait a minute.
Poe, are you saying that guy is the real COL Michael Steele?
The guy that commanded 3BCT /101 ABN DIV, the Rakkasans?
I have no idea, Joe, but the guy has left past hints that he’s at least an O-5 infantry officer.
I hope to hell he wasn’t a Rakkasan commander–those good troopers deserve much better leadership.
My God, I hope it’s not COL Michael Steele. That guy has an ironclad Airborne/Ranger pedigree:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Steele
Still in all, even if it is him, ol’ Poe’s not going to just sit back and let him come in here to TAH and browbeat us with his arrogance.
I truly hope it is not him–I would feel sorely betrayed…
I need to add that I will be totally, completely and thoroughly sickened if he is our SteeleyI.
Please, please, please don’t let that be the case…
For what it’s worth Poe:
“on this board”
There are damn few commenters here that use that term.
There are at least two now.
Just a question What was that SWAT team doing, the guys who were right there after the victim was shot doing while she was climbing through the window?
They were not a SWAT team. They were capitol police who had just abandoned their post and their duty to allow the rioters to break through the barricade.
We now have more information on what happened just before Babbitt was shot…
There was a line of three cops outside the barricaded door…The rioters told the cops that they needed to leave, they need to get out of the way, they needed to go “home” because “we don’t want you to get hurt”…
They threatened the cops with harm if they did not get out of the way.
The cops got out of the way.
Then the rioters immediately started trying to break through the glass and started trying to break down the barricaded door. Knowing that behind the barricade was elected officials.
An officer inside the barricaded hall, taking cover in a doorway started pointing his weapon at them while they tried to break down the barricaded door.
The rioters yelled “gun”, “he has a gun”…
It was also at this moment that Babbitt attempted to climb thought the now broken out window of the barricaded door.
Before she could climb though the officer shot her.
The three Capitol police officers that abandoned their position to let the rioters start attempting to break through the barricade are the officers you can see standing next to the rioters when Babbitt was shot. They abandoned their post and their duty,
A link to the article, please.
IT’S LARSFACT!!! YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT BY NOW!
No article link from C, just leftist spin.
She was half way through the window when shot.
A couple of doobs helped lift her up into the broken window,
and when she fell back shot, they split.
Another doob first yelled out “It’s just a flashbang,”
but then seconds later started yelling “Medic, Medic!”.
As if rioters keep medics in tow.
Idiots that sour a cause, who should have stayed outdoors.
Ugh.
How is anything I posted “leftist spin”?
Video evidence?
Here’s some video evidence.
Not from D.C., but of someone who types comments on this page.
Video evidence below.
I think he is giving his interpretation of a video which has been linked several times here. Or maybe another of the videos from a viewpoint only a couple of feet away. No link, of course.
I can’t find it.
-this- is another example why you have zero credibility. The effort to cite a link to a lengthy cut-n-paste is trivial, yet you didn’t bother.
Even if you accurately copied it, context and all, you gave everyone the out of “no link!” .
Are you actually that incompetent, or are you deliberately being a putz?
And you rant when folks question your motives or honesty. Yet you keep doing that same old stupid rather than maybe learning and improving.
How the frack do you manage to brush your teeth without killing yourself?
See below, assholes,
I hope that the shitbag politicians are satisfied with the outcome of all the discord and hatred they’ve sown. Every one of those pissants whose ass is the shape of their congressional seat owns a share of what happened with their lies, half truths and do nothing but enrich themselves and their cronies. They all have blood on their hands. Along with the douchebags in the media every pundit, talking head, and halfwit celebrity who has ever spread their brand of bovine scatology across the airwaves and internet to advance their agenda every stinking one of them owns it, too. People are pissed off, the ass clowns in DC have spent 4 freaking years with their thumb up their butt doing nothing but trying to undo an election and inflame the divisions in the country. This is only going to get worse, and it really makes me sad to see it.
Spot on Doc! Nailed it!
Congress has huge input on Capitol Police staffing, doctrine, and actions.
They had over fifty years from the riotous 60s to get ready for such a dipshit move. They utterly failed.
Thus this whole shitshow lands right back on Congress.
More and more video evidence suggest the cops had divided factions with some passively supporting the rioters.
My description was accurate.
I knew you would dismiss any source that did not have video. Finding a video was a bit harder,,,
https://www.police1.com/patrol-video/articles/video-shows-lead-up-to-fatal-shooting-inside-us-capitol-cA9SwOpvdUDcFjXK/
Hey everybody! Look! It can learn!
Wasn’t that -easy-?
You genuinely shocked me. You admitted your error, however grudgingly, and fixed it. Dang. Can you sustain this newfound skill?
To be fair, there are a number of links to different videos taken at this location on this site. I posted two, myself. If you haven’t seen them by now, that’s on you.
And I remember seeing this video here yesterday.
I have seen plenty. Wasn’t my point.
Strange, I’ve watched video of several Trump rallies, and been to a couple. I’ve never seen anyone wearing a helmet. That said, I have seen many more videos of AntiFa/BLM riots and almost all of them wear helmets, dress in black and usually wear a backpack filled with whatever it is that they want to throw at citizens or police.
And, the video went to Police 1, via the WaPoo? Doesn’t say much for the veracity of the clip, at all.
^^WORD^^
Plus a retired Air Force Reserve
Lt Col.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/air-force-veteran-identified-capitol-zip-ties-senate-floor
Appears a lot of Zoomies were there.
TSgt, USAF Retired
Helmet because… short bus.
Wow! That was a bunch of Comment’s! We are in Deep Shit as a Nation. Getting my Boots cleaned up. Live Free or Die.