Fri Feb 3, 2023 – 1:16 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy sparked consternation Thursday when he defended the Capitol Hill Police officer who shot and killed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt on January 6, 2021, in a sharp break from his allies former President Donald Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
During the riot at the U.S. Capitol on the day Congress certified President Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 election over Trump and Trump held a rally in protest, Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd fatally shot Babbitt, a protester and Air Force veteran, as she was leaning over a barricaded window in a Capitol hallway.
“There were three officers guarding the door, and that’s where Zachary Alam came in, he was the agitator in this situation, he was punching right over officers’ shoulders,” journalist Tayler Hansen describes the situation. “That’s when officers moved to the right, that’s when Ashli Babbitt, she hopped up, she had both of her hands, all her weight was forward, through the window, and that’s when the officer took a step forward and seemed to execute her.”
In October 2021, conservative watchdog
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