• Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    For people who forgot which one Ashli Babbit was:

    On January 6, 2021, Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot during the attack on the United States Capitol. She was part of a mob of supporters of then-outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump who stormed the United States Capitol seeking to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. At the time of her killing, Babbitt was a 35-year-old United States Air Force veteran and a supporter of QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ashli_Babbitt

    • Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      It’s hard if not impossible to have a more justified killing; she was trying to get into the part of the capital where the lawmakers were hiding. Officer held the line and did what they needed to do to protect themselves, lawmakers, and democracy.

      • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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        3 months ago

        If one had gotten through, more people would have gotten through and a lot more people would have been hurt.

        It’s unfortunate she died, and I believe that most of the people there were rubes that only really intended to shit on desks and piss in each other’s mouths, but mobs go nuts.

        Look at the case of Marina Abramovic… she did a performance piece where people could do whatever they want to her and she would just stand there. It started out innocently enough by the end she was cut up and someone had pointed a gun to her head.

        Anyway, point is, even if you believe people didn’t intend to hurt other people, these things change when mobs realize there will be no repercussions for their actions.

        Holding the line was the right thing to do.