Unfortunately, it did take one though.”Ī video posted a video to Twitter showing a woman wearing a Make America Great Again flag falling to the ground next to the shattered window. “is actions well may be judged in a lot of different ways moving forward, but his actions I believe saved people’s lives even more.

And when he his weapon, that’s a decision that’s very hard for anyone to make and, once you draw your weapon like that, you have to defend yourself with deadly force,” he told Good Morning America on Thursday. “The mob was going to come through the door, there was a lot of members and staff that were in danger at the time. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), who was inside the chamber at the time, said the police lieutenant “didn’t have a choice” but to shoot once the window was breached. While Sullivan said Babbitt was “not violent” and shouldn’t have died, Rep. “She didn’t heed the call and as we kind of raced up to grab people and pull them back, they shot her in the neck.” “A number of police and Secret Service were saying ‘Get back, get down, get out of the way,’” he said. One witness told WUSA9 that Babbitt was trying to “rush” the window. The second that she climbed through the window, she got shot right in the neck area and fell backwards.” “I was yelling to people, ‘Guys, there’s guns, you don’t want to go through there, they’re going to shoot. Videos of the incident show a group of Trump supporters breaking through the windows of a set of double doors, and officers barricading it with furniture on the other side.Īs the group used flag polls to break the windows, “all we see is these guns coming out the doorways, just guns,” a witness, John Sullivan, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Trump Aides Beg Top Officials to Stay in the Administration for the Night Her mother-in-law, Robin Babbitt, told the New York Post: “I’m numb.

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