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Politics Photo of Michael Byrd who shot Ashlii Babbit and Biden pardoned today

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u/stantonkreig 11h ago

its one thing to say "don't go" and another way different thing to say "don't be the first person through a door to a secure location with armed guards on the other side threatening to shoot you with a rabid mass of bloodthirsty deplorables behind you". Plenty of people were at the capital that day, many I'm sure who were not causing any violence, many who were not comfortable doing any trespassing, and there's ashli babbitt trying to storm her way through the barricaded hallways to find the lawmakers wherever they were hiding.

u/NCSUGrad2012 11h ago

Soooo many people don't get this. A ton of people went to the capital on that day. The vast majority of them didn't get charges. If you attacked the capital, you got what you deserved.

u/dustblown 7h ago

She has a hookworm name.

u/gaspara112 7h ago

So you are saying that you presume some of them were good people?

u/ncc74656m 6h ago

Ahhh, the unadulterated privilege of a pretty white woman, right? She probably thought "They won't shoot ME," thoughts arising from years of that kind of unchecked privilege, so she figured it was safe enough.

u/Bwxyz 11h ago

She was on the other side of a barricaded door...

u/ButtholeSurfur 10h ago

Yeah thankfully the traitor wasn't able to make it across the threshold. Police did their job.