Well, we’re going to stir up a lot of people with this article today. Why? Because we’re going to revisit the Capitol Hill protests on January 6, 2021 which many political leftists consider to be as bad as the 911 attacks on the Twin Towers (no, really, they do) and which many conservatives feel the Federal government and the judicial system used as an excuse to commit lawfare at its absolute worst against Trump supporters.
Today, though, we’re going to get into a few details that you probably didn’t know about the only shooting that happened during that entire protest situation, a shooting in which an unarmed Trump supporter, a military veteran named Ashli Babbitt, was shot and killed.
And those details are disturbing. Joseph M. Hanneman writes,
The U.S. Capitol Police officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on January 6 once fired his service weapon at fleeing vehicles near his home while his neighbor was in the line of fire, a congressional oversight committee reported.
Michael L. Byrd was promoted from lieutenant to captain in 2023 despite a “significant” history of referrals to the Capitol Police Office of Professional Responsibility, said U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), chairman of the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight.
The records of three disciplinary cases against Byrd are missing, according to Loudermilk. “This is disappointing, as the inability to locate these documents hinders the subcommittee from fulfilling its responsibility to conduct comprehensive oversight over the USCP,” Loudermilk wrote in a Nov. 20 letter to Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger.
Hanneman continues:
Loudermilk also cited “favorable treatment” given to Byrd, including a $36,000 retention bonus, more than $21,000 in security upgrades at his personal residence, and instructions that Byrd not sit for a fitness-for-duty evaluation after Jan. 6, 2021.
This was the same guy who left “his loaded service weapon in a bathroom at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center.” The gun was later found by another Capitol Hill police officer.
So, to be clear, he shot and killed an unarmed woman and has a history of what appears to be misusing firearms and being irresponsible with them, but he’s received huge bonuses, customizations to his home, and has had a security detail all paid for by your tax dollars after he murdered an unarmed military veteran.
I’m not making accusations at this point. But I think that you’ll agree that this whole situation sounds fishy and not at all on the up-and-up.
And that this guy sounds like exactly the kind of person that you don’t want “protecting people” or carrying a firearm, especially at taxpayer expense ($189,787 per year before those bonuses).