You Will Anyway: And a woman was shot and killed

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

And a woman was shot and killed

A woman was shot inside the Capitol on Wednesday after violent pro-Trump protesters stormed the building, according to reporters from CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. An MSNBC producer shared images of someone who appeared to be injured being transported on a stretcher. The news outlet also reported that a law-enforcement official fired the shot.

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The circumstances surrounding the shooting remained unclear in the immediate aftermath.

MSN

Trump should share the penalty. How many times have we said Trump's going to get somebody killed?

UPDATE:

The woman who was shot inside US Capitol during riots Wednesday afternoon was pronounced dead at an area hospital, a spokesperson with the Metropolitan Police Department confirmed to CNN.

CNN

The woman shot dead as a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday has been identified by her family as an Air Force vet who was an outspoken supporter of Trump.

Local San Diego news outlet KUSI named the woman as Ashli Babbitt, a San Diego resident who is said to have served 14 years in the military.

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Babbitt supported the violent pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, according to her Twitter account. She quoted “Q,” the anonymous figure behind QAnon, which falsely claims Democrats and other opponents of President Trump are Satanic pedophiles, in an Aug. 21 tweet, writing: “It is going to be biblical - Q.” On Sept. 7, Babbitt posted a picture of herself at a Trump boat parade with the hashtag “WWG1WGA,” a reference to the QAnon slogan, “Where we go one, we go all.”On Jan. 1, she tweeted that she would be in Washington for Jan. 6, adding “WWG1WGA.” On Jan. 5, a day before her death, Babbitt tweeted references to another QAnon slogan, “dark to light,” and said the United States would soon see “The Storm”—a moment much awaited by QAnon followers, in which Trump would execute his opponents in the Democratic Party.

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“They can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours....dark to light!” Babbitt wrote.

Daily Beast

Jesus wept. Trump did this.

She'll be their martyr, so she won't have died in vain.

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