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Tory says the statement-- "She entered in a threatening manner" is a lie.
Umm, good poster Tory, you are trying too hard.
"Lie" you say?
Checked the definition of "lie" recently?
The 'intent-to-deceive' is kinda sorta determinant.
So then, let's go there. Let's track back to --- "Threatening manner"?
I'll count some of the ways it is truthy vs. deceptive: (others are welcome to join)
1. Didn't ask permission to enter a restricted area. The most obvious standard. Nor was she invited. Either seem to be a pretty low bar for avoiding being shot.
2. She was visibly agitated seconds before she leaped into the breach. She shouted something (compliments? threats? recipes?) accompanied with vigorous hand and arm gestures at the officers moments before her sudden thrust forward.
3. After being warned not to enter...and threatened with a gun if she did enter......but still, she entered. In a forceful manner, directly forward and at the officers behind the barricade.
(i.e., she didn't 'sneak' in.)
4. And then she had an angry violent mob behind her....of which she was an obvious participant of.
5. All of which sure seems 'threatening' to me and, more important, to the reviewing authorities.*
5. And then... Ms Babbitt became DOA....for all of the above.
May her family find peace.
And may you too, good poster Tory.
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* "USCP's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) determined the officer's conduct was lawful and within Department policy, which says an officer may use deadly force only when the officer reasonably believes that action is in the defense of human life, including the officer's own life, or in the defense of any person in immediate danger of serious physical injury," said a statement from the United States Capitol Police released on Monday, August 23.