{"id":676293,"date":"2021-08-23T16:06:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T20:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=676293"},"modified":"2021-08-23T16:06:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T20:06:40","slug":"cop-who-shot-ashli-babbitt-acted-lawfully-saved-members-from-possible-death-capitol-police-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cop-who-shot-ashli-babbitt-acted-lawfully-saved-members-from-possible-death-capitol-police-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Cop Who Shot Ashli Babbitt Acted \u2018Lawfully,\u2019 \u2018Saved Members From Possible Death,\u2019 Capitol Police Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fcop-who-shot-ashli-babbitt-acted-lawfully-saved-members-from-possible-death-capitol-police-says%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=676293&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Capitol-Riot-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Capitol Police officer who shot protester Ashi Babbitt was found to be acting \u201clawfully\u201d and \u201cin line with department policy\u201d and will not face internal sanctions, the Capitol Police said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/capitol-police-officer-who-shot-ashli-babbitt-exonerated-after-internal-investigation-report\">Daily Wire reported Friday<\/a> that the officer who shot Babbitt as she entered the Capitol Speaker\u2019s Lobby through a broken window was \u201cformally exonerated after the Capitol Police conducted an internal investigation, according to an internal document.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The internal Capitol Police investigation represented the last such open investigation into the circumstances surrounding the 35-year-old Trump supporter\u2019s death. A memo on the matter, obtained by NBC News, said that \u201cno further action will be taken in this matter,\u201d meaning that the officer \u2014 who will not be named \u2014 will not face discipline.<\/p>\n<p>The Capitol Police unveiled the report itself on Monday. Officials \u201csaid they had interviewed multiple witnesses and reviewed video and radio calls as part of the months-long probe,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9919695\/Cop-killed-Ashli-Babbitt-acting-lawfully-Department-policy.html\">according to the Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUSCP\u2019s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) determined the officer\u2019s conduct was lawful and within Department policy, which says an officer may use deadly force only when the officer reasonably believes that action is in the defense of human life, including the officer\u2019s own life, or in the defense of any person in immediate danger of serious physical injury,\u201d read a statement from the Capitol Police.<\/p>\n<p>The Capitol Police investigator also said that the officer who shot Ashli Babbitt may have \u201csaved Members\u2019 lives,\u201d referring to the Members of Congress who locked down inside the Capitol building after protesters interrupted a vote to certify the results of the Electoral College.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficials said the cop, who is not being named out of concerns for his safety due to threats, \u2018potentially saved Members [of Congress] and staff from serious injury and possible death from a large crowd of rioters who forced their way into the U.S. Capitol and to the House Chamber where Members and staff were steps away,\u201d the Daily Mail noted.<\/p>\n<p>A Department of Justice investigation, which concluded earlier this year, reached similar results. Babbitt\u2019s family said earlier this month that they plan to file a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit against the Capitol Police, under the theory that the officer did not issue any verbal commands to Babbitt and others before he opened fire. A lawyer for the officer told Real Clear Investigations,&nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s a false narrative that he issued no verbal commands or warnings.&nbsp;He was screaming, \u2018Stay back! Stay back! Don\u2019t come in here!&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLethal force is appropriate if the situation puts you or others in fear of imminent bodily harm. There should be a training video on how he handled that situation. What he did was unbelievable heroism,\u201d the attorney told RCI.<\/p>\n<p>Babbitt was the only protester who died during the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol. A shocking video, which went viral, showed Babbitt as part of a group that tried to enter the locked Speaker\u2019s Lobby on the House side of the building. Babbitt appears, in the video, to have been shot through a window. She was evacuated from the Capitol and taken to a nearby hospital where she died from her wounds.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Capitol Police officer who shot protester Ashi Babbitt was found to be acting \u201clawfully\u201d and \u201cin line with department policy\u201d and will not face internal sanctions, the Capitol Police &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676293","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}