Capitol Police Officer Who Fatally Shot Ashli Babbitt Speaks Out
Capitol Police Officer Who Fatally Shot Ashli Babbitt Speaks Out
Lieut. Michael Byrd, the Capitol police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, is revealing himself and sharing his story for the first time. NBC’s Lester Holt sat down with him exclusively. “I am afraid, because I know there are people who disagree with my actions,” Byrd says. “I know that that day I saved countless lives.”
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When you look in the mirror you know deep down in your soul you are a narcissistic stone cold killer and you like that
This man has a 1:0 K:D and that’s a W
Ultimate Donald J Trump is responsible for this loss of life, he had hours to call off his supports but said and did nothing even after the urging of his own people.
the man did his job … yes, she was unarmed but unfortunately there are no warning shots in real life situations and she put herself in that situation.
HE IS A MURDERER OF INNOCENTS
The beginning of the End, The last Days and Fall of America, began on January 6th, our on government has begun to PURGE it’s own citizens. Hope your ready, to be PUBLICLY executed. SATAN rules America.
God the amount of smooth-brains in this comment section. So brainwashed you’re ok with murder. She was unarmed and was not advancing. He’s full of s**t. And those of you who applaud him cheered when Derek chauvin went to prison. Can you say cognitive dissonance?? 🤡
He’s an American 🇺🇲 Patriot/Hero who DROPPED 💥🔫AshLIE the Perfidious Neo-Nazi TRAITOR.
Thank You 👏👏 , Officer Byrd !
Glad he took her out💯😎
Beautiful shot lmao at how she thought she was going to do something and BAM hot slug to the chest 😂😂😂😂
This man is a hero. Where’s the "blue line" crowd? Oh wait….lol
Did not one person watch LIVE as officers took down barricades and wave these people in?? That’s the moment I knew they were being set up even people in the crowd yelled for them not to go in! Why did he shoot the woman why not the one breaking the door down?
Murderer
But why did you choose to shoot a woman and why lethality???
Disgusting how he celebrates the killing of veteran Ashli Babbitt!
Stand Your Ground
This man is a true hero .
That’s why I say hey Man Nice shot. Nice shot man 👌
all you trumpers who think this was murder, I ask you………if someone smashed thru your front door/window, would you shoot to protect yourself or serve the intruder tea and cookies??????
She broke the law she trespass end of story.
He’s a brave man. He had no choice and did the right thing. She put herself there and was in front of a rioting mob. I’m not sure what she thought would happen but she was warned. I am with you Officer Byrd and your shot was accurate. Lesson learned, hopefully.
He is a cold blooded MURDERER!!!
hero
Nice shootin’ Tex.
Massacred an unarmed protestor. Protestors can not be murdered only massacred.
I’m n my city of St. Louis city, there have been thousands of murders, here, and now with the movement to get rid of the police, my friend who was stabbed to DEATH 38, times in his own, has no 1 in what’s left of our local elected government, the prosecution, who will willingly or some times even show up to prosecute a 1st degree Murder case; indicated twice by a Grand jury here, THE LAST DAYS OF AMERICA are
HERE!
He’s a stone cold murderer.
Thank you patriot 🫡
Anyone that supports this man is a disgracve to the country that is supposed to stand for Truth, Justice, and the American way. You leftists are PURE EVIL YOU LOVE HATE AND MURDER. CHAOS IS YOUR COMFORT. YOU WILL GET SO MUCH OF WHAT YOU LOVE, IT WILL COME OUT YOUR NOSE. THE LORD OF HOSTS WILL NOT BE MOCKED!!!!
Do you think anyone would have entered that window if they would have fired warning shots?
I come back to this every so often to remind myself that patriotism doesn’t stop bullets
This guy murdered a veteran
AS A FORMER USCP. OFFICER, THIS OFFICER WAS NOT TRAINED TO USE HIS FIREARM AS A DETTERANT, WHICH HE OBVIOUSLY AND ADMITTINGLEY DID. i WOULD BET HE BARELY QUALIFIED DURING INITIAL FIREARMS TRAINING WHICH WAS PROBABLY AT LEAST 15 YEARS PRIOR TO THIS INCIDENT. WOULD ALSO BET HIS YEARLY QUALIFICATIONS WERE BARELY PASSED. HIM MAKING RANK OF LT. IS ALSO INDICATION OF POLITICS PLAYING A HUGE PART IN HIS POSITION. SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED TO PROTECTIVE DETAIL. WHICH HE WAS DOING. WHY HE IS STILL EMPLOYED AND EXONERATED BY HIGHER UPS IS TOTALLY POLITICAL. IT WOULD BE A TRAVESTY IF THIS OFFICER WAS AWARDED CONGRESSIONAL METAL FOR KILLING ASHLEY BABBITT BUT HE PROBABLY WAS. IF ANY OFFICER SHOULD BE CONVICTED OF MURDER AND BE IN JAIL. THIS IS PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HOW POLITICS PLAYS ON CAPITOL HILL. SICKENING.
"He is bonded by oath to protect the Congress members, which are behind that door. You don’t need to give a "verbal warning" at that point of threat.. Also, his gun was drawn for awhile, visible.. they decided to challenge his bonded oath. This is literally a Domestic Terrorist in every way, they had trespassed into the Capitol, which was fully barricaded.. and Babbitt was actively drumming up the Mob.. the whole time while they tried to break into that barricaded door. She decided to jump into that side window to break through the last barricade to actual House members… This guy Tayler is crazy.
It’s unfortunate the insurrectionists died, she should have never left her children and her family, but props to the officer for standing his ground and defending the capitol building of the United States of America! True patriot!
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That is how all insurrectionists must be treated when officers are defending the United States of America!
riot was a set up. Not 1 rioter discharged or used a firearm. Capital police and “ others” removed barricades before the riot started.. this hearing is a disgrace. Look at the crashing economy
So why for 8 months, will homes and businesses were being burned, looted, and destroyed, did these national/ Federal/ STATE, county and city? Authorities, allow Americans livelihoods, places of commerce, business, home dewllings, and places of worship, be burned, looted, to the ground? LAST DAYS OF AMERICA ARE HERE. our LIVES have 0= ZERO, no value in this country now.
If the colors were reversed it would be a different story.
Reading between the lines he meant to say, “I know based on my training that depositing lead into an unarmed female who posed NO threat was appropriate.”
I’m grateful that the cop was black & the dead female was white. Had it been the opposite, HE would be going to jail, Democrat politicians would have incited violence & the country, as it did during the Fentanyl Floyd riots, would have burned from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Thank you!
But yet he’s the only one who “did his job” that day
Good job officer!!!!
He was happy he murdered a white woman
Of course it has to be a black man.
What’s even more sad is that people were sending him death threats and claiming that she was unjustly murdered. Because he’s black and she was white. It was clear there was a gun. You can hear someone yelling it in the video. He was warning her to stay back.
He made the hard choice here. If he hadn’t done what he did, many more people would’ve stormed pass him. There were people back there hiding for their lives in fear. There were reports of officers down broadcasting all over the radios. All he knew is that the crowd was dangerous.
All of them should have gotten that same treatment. I wonder what was going through her head as she laid there bleeding out. Pathetic waste of oxygen got what she deserved. And all for a grifter billionaire who doesn’t know who she is and doesn’t care about any of them.
Here the thing, the house had the VP and the speaker there at that time. That is the 2nd and 3rd person in line for the office of POTUS. Literally the heads of state. Meanwhile people are running around shouting for VP and speaker. It was a good shot.
Call her what she actually is. A domestic terrorist.
This man did his job. It’s a shame that Ashli Babbitt went off the deep end with her Qanon/MAGA Bullsh&t.