Ashli Babbitt ‘Was Posing Threat to United States’ Officer Who Killed Capitol Rioter Said

Lieutenant Michael Leroy Byrd, the Capitol Police officer who shot Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt, has said that she posed a “threat” to the United States.

In a Thursday evening interview, NBC News anchor Lester Holt asked Byrd what he thought Babbitt was doing when he saw her climbing through a shattered glass window into the Speaker’s Lobby of the U.S. House chamber. It was at this moment when Byrd shot her, killing her.

“She was posing a threat to United States House of Representatives,” Byrd answered Holt.

Officer Michael Byrd said that Capitol Rioter Ashli Babbitt had “posed a threat to the United States” when he fatally shot her. This photo shows a woman kneeling at a memorial for Babbitt.
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Ashli Babbitt ‘Was Posing Threat to United States’ Officer Who Killed Capitol Rioter Said
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