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The husband of slain Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt is demanding the feds identify the Capitol officer who fatally shot her during the Jan. 6 siege — because the ongoing “silence is deafening.”
“Somebody up in DC knows, I think a lot of people know, but nobody is telling us,” Aaron Babbitt told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Monday night.
The widower is suing to get the officer’s name, saying that it “never occurred” to him that a government employee would be allowed to shoot someone dead and still remain anonymous.
“I never expected to lose my wife to political violence,” he told Carlson, saying it also “sickens me to hear what people say about Ashley” on social media.
“There has never been a person Ashli ran across in her daily life that didn’t love her,” he insisted, blaming “social media craziness that people just run with a theory and just take off with it.”
Babbitt’s attorney, Terrell Roberts, said it was his “belief” that the officer could be one who previously made headlines for leaving his loaded gun in a public restroom inside the Capitol in February 2019. He offered no reason, however, beyond Carlson noting rumors on social media.
Instead, Roberts said he believes the officer’s identity is being kept secret because “they don’t have a good explanation for this shooting.”
“I think if Ashli Babbitt had been brandishing a firearm and she was shot, the officer would be identified by now and they’d be pinning a medal on him,” he said.
“So I don’t think we have a good explanation for this shooting and that’s why they haven’t identified him.”
The Department of Justice in April announced that no charges were being brought over the shooting death, and the investigation had been closed.
The department insisted that the unidentified officer who fired a single shot at Babbitt near the Speaker’s Lobby inside the Capitol did so in self-defense and to protect members of Congress.
Aaron Babbitt confirmed earlier this month that he is asking a Washington, DC, court to force police to hand over the cop’s name, as well as other records relating to his wife’s death, including video footage of the incident and witness statements.
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