BearGoggles said:
bearister said:
It was a good shoot under the law governing police use of deadly force and Trump is ordering the payment because she was a fellow insurrectionist and it tickles his base.
Based on this payout, the taxpayers saved a lot of money when the police didn't close the deal on several hundred good shoots they were entitled to carry out on 1/6.
*I fully expect Trump to pardon Diddy and Elizabeth Holmes. He is an outlaw pardoning fellow outlaws.
What is the law of "good shootings"? Please detail that law on police use of force and explain how it applies here.
You do, inadvertently, raise an interesting point. You acknowledge there were many people behaving in an illegal manner similar to Babbitt that day. If this was a good shoot, why was Babbit the only one shot by police? Why did all other police officers elect not to shoot?
You don't understand the Capitol building geography. you display zero understanding of the situation.
If you were movielover, or one of his jack-offs, I'd suggest you were simply fever and asking questions to seed idiocy, but you are typically very straightforward, so I will explain.
As I've said many times, I had a job as a messenger for one of the Senate Committees. My parents knew the chairman (non political friendship) and I was appointed. 92.
My job was to deliver daily all committee material to all full time analyst staffers and every senator office on the committee. As Clinton was just voted in, there were MANY nominee hearings. We also had to provide bound booklets of hearing transcripts for the public.
We burned through boxes of paper daily. Very DOGE wasteful.
All that to say, I walked the circuit multiple times each day. This involved all 3 senate office buildings (Dirksen, Hart, Russell) and the US Capitol where the chairman had one of the few senior private offices in that building. There are underground tunnels connecting all the above.
It is VERY confusing if you don't know your way around the Capitol, and as I was only to deliver to that one office, I did not become an expert in the building's layout. There are officers stationed throughout the building in various locations, and I was instructed to not be going places that were outside my job duties.
Of course, I did go on multiple occasions into both galleries, House and Senate, and I explored the building without drawing attention by cops as to "why is that guy, with badge around his neck, continually wandering the building?"
I was never stopped from going somewhere, but one place that looked clear you DO NOT go is the Speaker's Lobby.
Same on the Senate side, there is a hallway behind the wall where the cameras are trained during speech-making inside the chamber. Only special badges can get you there. And that area is guarded/controlled by additional men, all with guns on their hips.
So, while I could cruise through the building, those are the central nerve corridors. And that's where Ashli was shot. After the mob she was in smashed a side window and she climbed through.
Had she not been such a Yahoo, she would have noticed that there was a man hiding with a gun pointed at her just feet away. People 6 feet from her were yelling, "there's a gun!" But amidst the chaos, she climbed through. Or, tried to. Shot doing do, fell back.
Behind that gun was a doorway leading to inside the House chamber, where Representatives were hiding. It was barricaded from the inside - locked door with furniture piled up on the other side. Rioters never made it inside the House chamber. Because of the shooting, they stopped.
On the Senate side, they DID get into the chamber. You've seen the tomfoolery of them in there.
So, YOU ASKED, why was she the only one who was shot?
Only the officer who pulled the trigger can say, but we must assume that he felt he was at the location of the final stand, and he was aware of the situation behind him (representatives cowering in fear) whom it was his job to protect.
Had the crowd gotten past him, and through the barricaded with furniture doorways, they'd have been upon dozens of elderly Representatives. It would have been an ugly scene.
I am so incredibly offended that "you people" ask such inane questions.
I do not understand how you can manage to not understand the seriousness of what that mob was doing.
Did you bother to listen to the Hearings headed up by Liz Chaney?
They were very clear.
Bearister has mentioned in posts since J6 that the police *could have* mowed down the crowd. It would not be an unimaginable outcome in the course of human events. And we can pontificate on what would have happened in that instance a thousand different ways:
-Strike back
-Martial law
-No return to verify the electoral college
-Successful Coup d'Etat
??????
But that just ONE bullet was fired is amazing. And it stopped the rioters there! Wow!
Could the bullet sound have been a warning shot just prior? Maybe? Could the officer have waved his gun more obviously ? Could, could, could….
Maybe you could educate yourself on this subject before you continue to ask what you think are intriguing or provocative questions.
I guess I am fortunate - I have a rudimentary understanding of the Capitol so that when I watched the footage from inside the building on that day, I've been able to put it all in context.
(LAST MINUTE EDIT: oh, I'm talking to Beer Goggles??? Great…What a waste of my time. You ARE one of the jerkoffs! I thought I was responding to someone else.)
