January sixth, 2021 will eternally be an notorious day in American historical past. 1000’s of obsequious Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington, D.C. in hopes of destroying democracy and supplanting it with an autocratic orangeman who had simply misplaced an election honest and sq.. Individuals had been so blinded by their loyalty to this man that they had been prepared to inflict violence on cops (who they spent the earlier yr claiming to help) and politicians, together with Vice President Mike Pence, who had been unwilling to usurp the structure simply to appease a sore loser. It was unhappy, pathetic, and terrifying. A number of folks misplaced their lives within the chaos however none of their names are as remembered as that of Ashli Babbitt. Babbitt was shot useless a plainclothes Capitol Police officer as she and several other different MAGA bootlickers tried to breach the ground of Congress. She was handled like anybody else could be beneath the circumstances. Her demise is of her personal doing. She will not be a hero. She will not be a sufferer. She is a violent felony who selected her destiny.
Babbitt’s household requested that she be given a navy funeral as she was an Air Pressure veteran however that request was denied beneath the Biden administration. It ought to come as no shock that beneath the Trump administration, miraculously, that request was reconsidered and granted by Secretary of the Air Pressure Matthew Lohmeier in keeping with new reporting from CNN.
“[A]fter reviewing the circumstances of Ashli’s demise, and contemplating the data that has come ahead since then, I’m persuaded that the earlier dedication was incorrect,” Lohmeier stated. “Moreover, I wish to invite you and your loved ones to satisfy me on the Pentagon to personally supply my condolences.”
The unidentified officer who killed Babbitt was subsequently cleared of any wrongdoing.
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