{"id":80134,"date":"2021-08-23T15:32:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=80134"},"modified":"2021-08-23T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:32:55","slug":"wow-no-further-action-will-be-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=80134","title":{"rendered":"WOW!!! “No Further Action Will Be Taken”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“No Further Action Will Be Taken”: Officer Who Fatally Shot Ashli Babbitt Cleared Of Any Wrongdoing By Capitol Police<\/strong><\/h2>\n


\nAuthored by Jonathan Turley,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Yesterday I wrote a\u00a0column in the Hill<\/a>\u00a0about the FBI reportedly finding no evidence a planned insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th. In a related story,\u00a0the Capitol Police has now\u00a0entirely cleared<\/a>\u00a0the still unnamed officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt despite her being unarmed.<\/strong>\u00a0 The decision was marked by the\u00a0same lack of information that characterized an earlier decision from the Justice Department.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is little media coverage of the\u00a0obvious disconnect in the handling of this shooting and other uses of force against protesters in recent riots.<\/strong>\u00a0Even law professors are largely silent on the\u00a0implications of a finding that the shooting of an unarmed protester is justified<\/a>.\u00a0 Babbitt seems to be treated as \u201cfair game\u201d because she was part of the January 6th riot.<\/p>\n

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