‘She’s dead, she’s dead’: Jan. 6 video has new angle on Ashli Babbitt shooting
by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist
January 02, 2024 02:02 PM
A video timeline produced by Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protesters shows a clearer picture of the shooting death of Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt by a Capitol Police officer.
The just-released video, “J6: A True Timeline,” shows the moment Babbitt attempted to enter the House speaker’s lobby and was shot by Lt. Michael Byrd in the neck or shoulder.
“She’s dead, she’s dead,” a protester cried out. “They just killed a girl,” yelled another.
Drawn from official video, police body cameras, surveillance film, and the videos of those at the Capitol, the new timeline tries to put into focus the chaos of the day and include some of the context left out of media summations and the report released by the House Jan. 6 investigation.
It highlights the aggressiveness of both sides and especially shows examples of a handful of police forcefully holding back the crowds who attempted to protest the election of Joe Biden as president. A video shows officers shooting rubber balls and chemicals into crowds.
https://twitter.com/J6TrueTimeline/status/1741866543858729452It also spotlights the deaths of three other protesters that day.
The shooting death of Babbitt, 35, takes center stage at about 44 minutes into the video. “The story of that gunshot is quite possibly the most tragic story of that day,” said the narrator of the video produced by Alan Fischer, who has been charged in the protest and tied to the Proud Boys.
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