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Broken social scene colbert3/26/2023 He and Greene even participated in a fundraiser for several men charged with attacking police that day. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump has praised Babbitt and his other supporters who rioted at the Capitol. jail, where rioters are being held, as Greene has urged. He added he didn’t know whether his committee would investigate the conditions at the D.C. He said the House Administration Committee, rather than the Oversight Committee, would handle any investigations into what happened on Jan. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, declined to say whether he agreed with Greene. “Here’s what we know: She was shot, and she’s dead.” Scott Perry (R-Pa.), chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, said. “I don’t have any facts about that,” Rep. Other prominent House Republicans couldn’t find it in themselves to disagree with Greene’s claims about Babbitt. Though he stopped short of criticizing Greene’s inflammatory statements in support of a mob rioter on Thursday, McCarthy’s statement supporting the officer who killed Babbitt shows that even he has limits. Greene has said she’ll push the committee to investigate the criminal justice system’s supposed mistreatment of Jan. She’s been rewarded with a coveted spot on the House Oversight Committee. McCarthy has championed Greene’s career as part of a reciprocal relationship in which she became his biggest supporter among the far-right of the House Republican conference. The Capitol Police said the officer’s action potentially saved lawmakers and staff from potential injuries and death at the hands of the mob attacking the Capitol. In its investigation into Babbitt’s death, which resulted in no charges for the officer, the Justice Department said Babbitt “attempted to climb through one of the doors where glass was broken out.” Greene claimed Babbitt was trying to stop someone else from climbing through the window, but that’s not apparent from any videos HuffPost has seen. The officer fires a single shot, and Babbitt goes down. Babbitt then tries to clamber through one of the broken windows. One of the officers in the lobby pulls out his service weapon, and several rioters yell about the gun. Videos of the incident show Babbitt, who had a history of erratic and threatening behavior, fully participating in a mob scene, screaming at police officers as others punched the windows in the barricade doors to the Speaker’s Lobby. “She was an innocent unarmed woman,” Greene said. In an interview on Thursday, Greene insisted “murder” is the right word for what happened to Babbitt. Those officers have been charged with murder. She even suggested Babbitt’s death was as outrageous as last month’s killing of Tyre Nichols by police officers in Memphis, Tennessee. Greene had described Babbitt’s shooting as murder - an illegal, premeditated killing - during her first appearance as a member of the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday. “I think the police officer did his job,” McCarthy said Thursday in response to a question from HuffPost about whether Babbitt was murdered. She immediately fell to the floor and later died at a hospital. 6, 2021.Ī Capitol Police officer shot Babbitt as she tried to climb through a smashed window at the entrance to the Speaker’s Lobby just off the House floor. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) that Ashli Babbitt was “murdered” by police during the riot at the Capitol on Jan. WASHINGTON - House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) disagrees with Rep.
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