It is more than four months since Ashli Babbitt was killed by a Capitol police officer. It is unconscionable that, to this date, there are NO PUBLIC RECORDS that have identified just who that officer is/was. We have heard that the DOJ determined that the shooting was justified. According to the media narrative, the officer was protecting Congress from a lethal threat. But we have not heard who the officer is/was. I say is/was because there is evidence to suggest that the officer who shot Babbitt committed suicide the next day.
If Babbitt had been an unarmed black woman, we would have known the officer’s identity before the sun went down on January 6th. However, Babbitt was an Air Force veteran, a conservative, a Trump supporter and white. So her death at the hands of the police had to be handled differently by Big Media. There could not be any of the usual efforts to delegitimize and denigrate those who serve and protect.
Hrand Tookman over at LBA has written two posts on the subject. Tookman notes:
And it’s crazy that in an era when police can’t even breathe at someone wrong without taking heat, we have no idea who killed Ashli Babbitt. I mean I knew the media wasn’t going to sensationalize, exploit and weaponize it the way they do so many other officer-involved shootings. But I didn’t think so many months later there’d still be such an heir of secrecy around everything other than the media’s prevailing narrative: “white supremacists armed with MAGA hats, one fire extinguisher, and signs tried to take over the U.S. government so Trump could be President for life.”
Let’s remember that there are some 14,000 hours of video footage of the events of January 6th. Again, in this day and age, police departments routinely release video footage shortly after an event under the premise of transparency. Why has so little of the January 6th video been released to the public? It couldn’t be that such a release would show that those who have been driving this story were lying, could it?
The public record states that TWO Capitol police officers committed suicide the day after the January 6th “riots.” How anyone in good faith could call what took place on January 6th a riot or even worse an insurrection is beyond me. This is especially true in light of how the events of last summer were characterized by the media.
But, let’s get back to the subject of suicides. Now suicides do happen. But to have two suicides within the same police department the day after they supposedly saved Congress from being exterminated, beggars the question of why. Supposedly they were heroes. Why would even one take his own life? It couldn’t be that they recognized that they had been used to sell a phony narrative to the American public, could it?
Tookman goes on to make the case about the identity of the officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt.
Tookman notes:
Which brings me to the two weird suicides that happened right after January 6th, by two officers who were involved in the riot. That news came out days after January 6th and it was mind-blowing to me at the time.
I mean it’s weird, right?
And it gets weirder when nobody in the media — none of their experts or analysts — seem to notice or talk about it. They don’t have any interest at all in the tragic data point about the two suicides. A data point that has “outlier” written all over it with respect to an event like this.
But obviously something was very, very wrong in that department and with the response to January 6th. It’s just too wild that not one, but two, otherwise proud and honorable defenders of the Capitol would decide in the aftermath of their heroism to end their lives.
We know the name of one of the officers who committed suicide. Why? Because his widow made his name public when asking for his death to be considered one that occurred in the line of duty despite the man being at home when he took his life.
Howard Liebengood.
Is he the shooter of Ashli Babbitt? Well, Tookman has dug up some pics of Liebengood. While there are clear similarities, these are inconclusive in my opinion. I am sure that better images exist. But, the vast majority of those images are not in the public domain yet. You be the judge.
Regardless of what the media has said, the facts are that only one person was actually killed on January 6th at the protests over the election results. And that person was Ashli Babbitt. Many of us feel this was a tragic error. Suppose the officer felt the same way. Would suicide be the result?
As Tookman has noted, it would also be terrible to speculate about the officer’s identity and be wrong. But, one has to ask oneself, why won’t the authorities release the name of the officer? It is very unlikely that Trump supporters would go on a rampage like we saw with George Floyd’s tragic death from a drug overdose last year. It appears more and more that releasing the name would probably undercut the preferred narrative. And people might start asking questions about why the other officer committed suicide. That might also be bad for the story-telling hours of Big Media.