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Ashli Babbitt was not widely reported to have been wielding a knife at the moment she was fatally shot on January 6, 2021; official investigations and major contemporaneous reporting found no evidence...
Lt. Michael Byrd has publicly defended his use of lethal force in the shooting of Ashli Babbitt, saying he acted as a to protect members of Congress and fellow officers and that he has been cleared by...
Ashli Babbitt was part of a crowd that forcefully breached the U.S. Capitol and attempted to push through a barricaded door leading to the Speaker’s Lobby; investigators and the U.S. Capitol Police co...
Ashli Babbitt’s family sued the U.S. government under the Federal Tort Claims Act alleging that a plainclothes Capitol Police lieutenant negligently shot and killed Babbitt without warning or attempt ...
Media coverage and organized social campaigns that sought to identify the officer who shot Ashli Babbitt magnified threats against Lt. Michael Byrd and reshaped public perceptions of January 6 by turn...
Two competing factual frames exist: official investigations concluded the officer’s shooting of Ashli Babbitt was lawful and that her attempt to enter the Speaker’s Lobby amid a crowd posed a threat t...