Was good poster DGS49 in that lobby at that time?
If he was....which side of the breached-barricade door was he on?
I ask because......it makes a difference.
I ask because the situation on the police side of that barrier was dire....and dangerous. The imminent peril was clear.
The police had been hearing in their earpieces that their colleagues were being savagely beaten downstairs and on the Capitol steps. The police had "lost the line" of defense and violent attackers were now streaming into the Capitol building.
Which brings us to now dead Babbitt. She was an active and vehemently vocal participant with the violent mob. She encouraged them in the violent breaching of that door while she screamed at police on the other side.
And when the breach opened wide enough for her to charge through. She did.
She did. Despite being warned to 'leave', to back away, to do not enter. And crucially being warned that a police pistol was being brandished as a warning. She charged through the breach anyway,. Babbitt as the tip-of-the-spear. The point-man of the violent mob hellbent on attacking America's elected representatives.
Poor dead Babbitt. May her family find peace. And peace from rightwing nutjobs regularly dragging her bloody corpse across whiney MAGA snowflake chatrooms.
IMHO
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And it also saved.....and Babbitt get so little credit for it.....but it also saved other violent insurrectionist who she was leading through the breached opening. Meaning, more of them could have been rightfully shot as they too leaped into the breach towards the guarding police and the vulnerable Representatives.
She fell bleeding. And the insurrectionists lost heart and retreated.
A good shoot.