6 Months After Riot, Capitol Police Face Multiple Crises
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/us/politics/capitol-police-riot.html
The killing of Ms Babbitt should be kept in the forefront of this commentary and not diminished by political posturing by any side, certainly not the self-exculpation raving of Mr. Trump.
If in doubt have the courage to watch the video of the killing, the gun appearing, then the hand holding it, then the arm extending toward a target, then the firing, all those in rapid succession, then the views of Ms. Babbitt falling backwards, people around her stunned at the scene, blood beginning to pour from her mouth and nose, eyes open, staring shocked, officers bending to tend her, then a medic comes, then the crowd cleared.
The larger Capitol mob action has been played repeatedly, but that killing scene does not get recycled, you have to search for it, bear watching and imaging being the victim, not easy to do and few do it, instead go back to the roiling mob action, the political grandstanding, the approved version for tolerable consumption.
Not right to reduce Ms. Babbitt to a cartoon, not right to elevate her to martyrdom, not right to refuse to bear responsibility for her death, but that has happened, that is how she has become a demoralizing lesson in avoiding responsibility for our government and ourselves at our worst.
Shame on us for blaming others, for adopting our exculpation for Ms. Babbitt's life ending in a Capitol hallway, in a venerated pile of marble extolled for its majestic role but now defiled by its dismissal of a horror for political gain.
This is a serious story and an event in much need of more talk and action but when your opinions take center stage all the fire of the story dies quietly just like Ashlee.
"self-exculpation raving of Mr. Trump"
Absolutely unnecessary and by adding it to this story makes clear which side of the aisle you walk
If you ran for president and lost due to cheating it would be "self-exculpation raving of CRYPTOME". If the election had been fair with no fraud, no changing the law, no democrats screaming their opinions or a