{"id":2012990,"date":"2023-08-26T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T16:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ashli-babbitts-killer-capitol-cop-michael-byrd-gets-rewarded-with-promotion-report\/"},"modified":"2023-08-26T12:26:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T16:26:54","slug":"ashli-babbitts-killer-capitol-cop-michael-byrd-gets-rewarded-with-promotion-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ashli-babbitts-killer-capitol-cop-michael-byrd-gets-rewarded-with-promotion-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Cop Michael Byrd, who killed Ashli Babbitt, promoted: Report."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fashli-babbitts-killer-capitol-cop-michael-byrd-gets-rewarded-with-promotion-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2012990&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Capitol Police \u2064Lieutenant Who Shot Ashli Babbitt to Death During the \u200cCapitol\u2062 Incursion Will Be Promoted to Captain<\/h2>\n<p>The Capitol Police lieutenant who shot Trump supporter Ashli \u200bBabbitt to \u200bdeath during \u2064the Capitol incursion will be promoted to captain, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Byrd\u2019s promotion \u200cwas revealed by <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2023\/08\/24\/capitol-police-promotes-officers-who-got-jan-6-attack-spotlight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roll Call<\/a>, which said an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-finally-discovers-china-uses-u-s-media-to-attack-the-united-states\/\" title=\"CNN Finally Discovers China Uses U.S. Media To Attack The United States\">internal document<\/a> it\u200b reviewed showed Byrd is among 30 Capitol\u200b Police employees being promoted on \u200dSunday.<\/p>\n<p>A representative of\u2064 the department said it does not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-math-teacher-dismissed-following-private-conservative-facebook-posts\/\" title=\"Missouri Math Teacher Dismissed Following Private Conservative Facebook Posts\">discuss personnel matters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe promotional process is competitive and equitable,\u201d the\u200c representative said, \u2064adding that promotions \u201cwere well earned across the Department to include multiple Captains, Lieutenants, and Sergeants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Byrd was officially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cop-killed-unarmed-ashli-babbitt-cleared-wrongdoing-capitol-police-say-officer-saved-lives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cleared<\/a> \u2062 of wrongdoing in Babbitt\u2019s death, a use-of-force\u2062 expert \u200dhas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/use-force-expert-ashli-babbitt-murdered-color-authority-jan-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">condemned<\/a> his actions.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/the-real-story-of-jan-6-documentary_4596670.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documentary<\/a> created by The Epoch \u200bTimes, expert Stan Kephart \u200bsaid Babbitt should not have been killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy conclusion \u2026 based on\u2064 what I saw and observed in the \u200dvideo clips\u2064 is that Ashli Babbitt was murdered,\u201d said Kephart, \u2062who served 42 years in law enforcement and was director of security for\u200b the\u200d 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was shot and \u2064killed under color of \u200bauthority by \u2064an officer who violated not \u200conly the \u2063law but his oath and committed an\u2064 arrestable offense,\u201d Kephart said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">RIP ASHLI BABBITT\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6G7CC79m67\">pic.twitter.com\/6G7CC79m67<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Trumps\u2064 Nephew (@ForgiatoBlow47) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForgiatoBlow47\/status\/1689278784703188995?\">August \u20629, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Last \u200byear, former President \u2064Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-calls-ashli-babbitts-mother-rips-capitol-cop-killed-daughter-cant-let-happen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke<\/a> about the incident in a call with demonstrators\u2063 protesting the treatment of Jan. 6 \u200dprisoners.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWe love Ashli, and it was so horrible what \u200chappened to \u2064her. That man [who] shot Ashli is a disgrace and then\u200c he goes on television and it looks like he was actually \u200cbragging about it,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Byrd defended his\u200d actions last year in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/capitol-officer-killed-ashli-babbitt-reveals-identity-says-saved-countless-lives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>Byrd said that at the moment he killed Babbitt, \u201cshe was posing a\u2062 threat to the United States House of Representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that day I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-warn-biden-against-aid-cuts-to-israel\/\" title=\"House Republicans Warn Biden Against Aid Cuts to Israel\">saved countless lives<\/a>,\u201d Byrd \u200bsaid. \u201cI\u200d know members of Congress,\u2064 as\u200b well as my fellow \u2062officers and staff, were in jeopardy and in serious\u200b danger. \u2064And that\u2019s my job.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In\u2064 an exclusive interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LesterHoltNBC?\">@LesterHoltNBC<\/a>,\u200b Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd\u200c describes why he\u2019s choosing \u200dto identify himself. Byrd shares his account of the January 6 riot, as officers barricaded the door and he fired a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-study-shows-pfizer-vaccine-effective-with-one-dose-lower-temperature-storage\/\" title=\"Israeli Study Shows Pfizer Vaccine Effective With One Dose, Lower Temperature Storage\">single shot<\/a>, \u2064killing Ashli\u200c Babbitt. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5E7KPtxNc2\">pic.twitter.com\/5E7KPtxNc2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC Nightly \u2063News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNightlyNews\/status\/1431037492547842051?\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/secret-police-docs-reveal-no-good-reason-shoot-ashli-babbitt-judicial-watch-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documents<\/a> obtained\u200b by Judicial Watch from the \u200cWashington, \u200dD.C., \u200bMetropolitan Police\u2062 regarding Babbitt\u2019s death showed Babbitt\u200b was not holding a weapon at the time \u200bof the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ashli-babbitts-killer-capitol-cop-michael-byrd-gets-rewarded-with-promotion-report\/\" title=\"Capitol Cop Michael Byrd, who killed Ashli Babbitt, promoted: Report.\">previously secret records show<\/a> there was no good reason\u2062 to shoot and kill \u2062Ashli Babbitt,\u201d Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ashli-babbitts-killer-capitol-cop-michael-byrd-gets-rewarded-promotion-report\/\">Ashli\u2063 Babbitt&#8217;s Killer, Capitol Cop Michael Byrd, Gets Rewarded with Promotion: Report<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Capitol Police confirmed the promotion but did not provide further details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":2012991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}