The very jaded and cynical part of me wonders why it took Ashli Babbit’s husband three years to sue the federal government over her death.
The husband and the estate of slain Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt sued the U.S. government on Friday, arguing that a Capitol police officer killed her in an unjustified shooting. She was unarmed.
“Ashli traveled alone from San Diego to Washington, D.C. on January 5, 2021, to attend the Women for America First (aka Save America) rally the next morning at the Ellipse, located just south of the White House,” the complaint filed in the Southern District of California. “The rally featured President Trump and prominent conservative speakers. Ashli loved her country and wanted to show her support for President Trump’s America First policies and to see and hear the president speak live while he remained in office. Ashli did not go to Washington as part of a group or for any unlawful or nefarious purpose. She was there to exercise what she believed were her God-given, American liberties and freedoms.”
This is worse than revisionism. It’s galling and sickening to me. I have said this before and will say this again: Ashli Babbitt is responsible for her own death.
Here is the group she was a part of that was oh so peaceful:
I have never shot a gun. I have never handled a gun. I have no training as a cop. But if I had been on the other side of those doors, I would have let loose with a volley of shots. And I am not saying that out of vindictiveness or blood lust.
Can you imagine being on the other side of those doors with a crowd trying to break down the doors? I can only imagine the fear of injury and DEATH that must have gripped those the mob was attacking. And let’s face facts, no damn mob can be reasoned with. The people in this video are criminals intent on harm.
Which is why I thank any higher power that I was not there with a gun in my hand.
This was a righteous shooting. It’s not an easy thing to say that. But look at the violence.
And this will sound very harsh, but I have nothing but contempt for Ashli Babbitt’s family. They have been trying to make her some kind of martyr for patriotism. And she was anything but that.
I hope this case gets tossed.