What We Know About The Insurrection Shooting | Talking Points Memo

A woman was shot and killed on Wednesday as an angry mob of Trump supporters seeking to overturn the results of the election took over the Capitol building.


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“Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said that he witnessed the shooting. “I was right there when that person came through the door, and that person got shot,” Mullin told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “It’s a tragic situation that took place. It left the officer no other choice. This should have never happened. It’s sickening that it took place.”

Complicit criminal says what?

Repeating numerous debunked and unproven fraud claims about the presidential election, Mullin said he will participate in efforts to protest the electoral votes of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia based on steps those states took to deal with COVID-19 and a high volume of mail-in ballots.

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Oh. Loeffler’s husband is paid by the taxpayer to spy over “Antifa”.

Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s husband is renting out an airport hangar to the U.S. Marshals Service for what appears to be a domestic surveillance operation—at a very nice profit—in a deal shrouded in secrecy.

That operation, a nationwide cell phone monitoring campaign first reported by The Wall Street Journal in 2014, provoked outcry from Loeffler’s colleagues from Oregon last year, after local media discovered that a Marshals Service plane had circled for hours over an anti-racist protest in Portland on June 13.

Three days later, flight records show that exact plane touched down at Fulton County Airport in Atlanta, Georgia—where the Marshals Service leases space from Fulton County Hangar Services, part of the vast business empire run by Loeffler’s husband, Jeffrey Sprecher. The federal government renewed its rental relationship with the company the same month.

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You would think a plumber would know shit when he sees it and smells it.

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Well,Trump did say he could shot someone on 5th Ave and his supporters would not abandon him, so he he was almost right, it was his supporter who got shot at the Capital and guess what many people are still with him!
Not that she was innocent but it’s amazing that there were 100’s of men yet it was a woman who got killed.

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Tragic. Didn’t even get a chance to demand to talk to the manager.

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Die Blutfahne
Now they have their martyr.

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“Details are sketchy, including the woman’s name, but witnesses confirm it was ‘Karen’ something.”

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This is the woman who was supposedly shot today. Lin Wood quoting conspiracy mongering “Veteran”.

https://twitter.com/Ashli_Babbitt

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OK now … she may have been a ‘veteran’ but she was no ‘proud patriot’. No no no. I am sick and tired of these jackasses ‘believing’ some BS and insisting that is how things ‘work’. They are in a cult. Pure and simple.

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Ashli with an “i”. Hmmm, doesn’t sound very AntiFa.

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Killed in the commission of a felony, breaking and entering, assault, etc. Everyone of the rioters should be charged as accessories to murder. Just like when someone is killed in the commission of any other violent felony.

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Sorry I’m not sorry, but fuck her memory as a traitor to the Republic.

You get shot as you’re storming the Capitol building? Oooops.

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Play silly games, get silly prizes. The cop should probably face trial, however (he will not face trial, obvs.)

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kUSI is more Fox than Fox, so I am waiting for more info on this person.

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“It’s not clear what led to the shooting”

Not clear? Perhaps the attempted coup was a factor?

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Let’s all be sad and regret this woman’s loss of life.

We want to assume she approached her passion for all the right reasons. We will never know why she was in front of that door at the moment when officers believed it was OK to shoot. But. watching the video, we have to believe all were at risk.

Philosophically, we want to say when a mob moves forward, they all at their own risk. But, no one acknowledges someone might lose their life when the mob moves forward.

Life is precious. Unfortunately, advocates for so called principle, real or distorted, can and are owned by those who control others emotions. Real or inspired. Many are the victims of false profits. Either as president or someone onsite.

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Well, other than the fact she was leading a violent insurrection at the time.

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Nah. She was MAGA-mob invading the Capitol. There are no “right reasons” for invading the Capitol.

That does not mean she needed to be shot. That also does not mean she didn’t need to be shot. My personal analysis, in the context of Capitol cops failing to shoot a bunch of assholes who definitely needed to be shot (preferably in the face), is that she did not meet the criteria for getting shot by a random-ass Capitol police guy.

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