[djaque]

Ummmm... Ashli Babbit was a QAnon conspiracy theorist who broke into the capital during the Jan. 6 insurrection. She was at the front of a mob trying to get into the Speaker's Lobby containing representatives sheltering in place. The mob was commanding the police to let them in and started chanting to break down the door. Police warned them multiple times. Instead, Babbit climbs through a window in front of a police officer with a gun pointed at her after being commanded to not enter. She got within feet of representatives (who... mind you the mob was screaming death threats about). There was no way to know if she had hidden weapons on her body, especially with others at the insurrection carrying assault rifles. Any reasonable person would say the shooting was justified doubly so with a mob of conspiracy theorists behind her ready to brutalize some politicians.

Don't gaslight people by just calling her "unarmed" especially when QAnon is turning her into a martyr for their movement. It's fundamentally dishonest.

[mensetmanusman]

This sounds like the type of justification of why other people who get shot by police might have been at more fault. We have way too many police shootings when other disarming methods exist.

[honkdaddy]

I don't think it's a good look to try to justify police shooting unarmed civilians. Being a QAnon conspiracy theorist shouldn't be reason enough to shoot her in cold blood.

[pfarrell]

If she had not stuck her head through the window, she’d have walked out with all the other people in that room. It’s incorrect to categorize her death as due to her beliefs. It was her actions.

[freen]

If the people storming the capital has been brown, it would have been a massacre.