U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Kevin McCarthy, denied Friday that ex-military officer Ashli Babbitt was killed by police during the assault on the Capitol, refuting the position of the far-right wing of the Republican Party.
One of the leading exponents of the Republican hard core is precisely Marjorie Taylor Greene, representative for Georgia, who has pointed out that Babbitt’s death was actually an assassination by Capitol security forces on that day of January 6, 2021.
«I think the police officer did his job,» McCarthy told the media, questioned by the words of Taylor Greene, who compared the case of the veteran with the recent death of Tire Nichols, the latest victim of U.S. police brutality, reports The Hill.
Taylor Greene has recently condemned the death of Nichols, an event he called «tragic», although he took the opportunity to allude to the death of Babbitt and denounce that «no one cared about the person who shot and killed her».
The Capitol Police announced in August 2021 that the police officer who shot Babbitt would not face internal disciplinary action following an investigation. The former military officer was a signature supporter of former President Donald Trump, her husband acknowledged at the time, and was pronounced dead at an area hospital.
Babbitt died in January 2021 as part of the police operation that tried to stop the mob of former President Trump supporters in their attempt to storm the Legislative seat and stop the transfer of power to Joe Biden as the new U.S. president.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
