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fatbirdtoday at 4:21 AM1 replyview on HN

An unarmed woman climbing through a smashed window with a capital police officer on the other side, sidearm drawn, warning her not to advance, in the middle of a crowd storming the capitol building while a gallows stood outside, waiting for the crowd to bring out a member of congress or the Vice President.

> * U.S. representative Markwayne Mullin [currently head of DHS], a witness to Babbitt's attempted breach, said that Byrd "didn't have a choice" but to shoot, and that his action "saved people's lives".* [0]

The shooting was deemed “lawful and within department policy”.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ashli_Babbitt


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TMWNNtoday at 10:05 AM

>The shooting was deemed “lawful and within department policy”.

I do not disagree with this at all. I only mentioned her death as contrast to the usual rhetoric of how the mob at the Capitol "killed" Officer Sicknick and others (who are always mysteriously unnamed).