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Major developments this week regarding the shooting death of Ashley Babbitt.

Judicial Watch uncovered documents that raised serious questions about not only the shooting but how the investigation in mind he was handled.

Another development in our court fight against critical theory in California and more outrage from the Justice Department and the FBI.

They're really just thumbing their nose at the American people and the rule of law. Talk to you about that.

And of course it has to do with again targeting President Trump.

First up are these new documents. You may already see news about them that we received from the Metropolitan Police Department here in addition to Columbia concerning the police officer involved killing of Ashley Babbitt on January 6th in the US Capitol.

Lieutenant bird shot and killed Ashley Babbitt as she was seeking entry into one of the house chambers with house gallery where the members were.

She was crawling through and he shot and killed even though as the document show that she was not armed and as the documents further suggest an investigation suggests strongly he did not issue any warnings to stop.

Additionally there is an escalation issue related to police. The use of force by the police you start with one area for one force option and then you escalate it potentially to deadly force.

Now there are circumstances where you immediately have to go to deadly force and in my view these circumstances were not present here and this shooting was unjustified.

And as I said in commentary associated with the release of this material there was no good reason for the shooting death of Ashley Babbitt.

It was a bad shooting and I'll give you the details now the documents are available at judicial watches website at judicial watch.org so you can look at the 553 pages of documents there.

532 pages of documents that we received from the DC Metropolitan Police Department.

Again you know we had filed this lawsuit in May of 2021 after waiting for months for records what's going on here it wasn't rocket science.

There was a shooting death involving a police officer where are the records we all know how this works by now given what happened in the George Floyd episode.

The material needs to be released quickly and publicly and it wasn't done in this case and as you know the or may know the name of the officer was withheld until he came forward in a friendly interview on the NBC networks.

Babbitt as I said was shot and killed as she climbed through a broken interior window in the US capital she was on aren't and she was the US Air Force veteran 14 years you've been normal chair.

The identity of the of the capital or the police officer who killed her was kept secret by the Pelosi Congress you know the Pelosi Congress it's very concerned about police accountability and reform and.

And is talked about the funding the police.

And of course you know the federal parties knew about them about about who he was and the DC authorities knew who he was yet was massive secrecy around it and it was judicial watch who came in and got the core documents about this investigation.

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