Just prior to being killed, she was in a crowd that included a large number of heavily armed police..
Based on the footage and photos, officers in the vicinity appeared to abandon the doorway that Babbitt attempted to enter. Just 18 seconds before the shooting, a still frame from a video shows six officers, several heavily armed, standing next to Babbitt.
She was shot by an officer on the other side of the doorway. There were five other officers on that side of the doorway, one still frame appeared to show.
[Babbitt family lawher] Roberts told The Epoch Times in a recent interview that the shooting was not justified and that Babbitt’s family is considering filing a lawsuit alleging excessive use of force.
The footage “demonstrates I think very clearly that in this particular case, the officer’s use of deadly force was not justified,” the attorney said on One America News.
“He was not confronted with an immediate threat on his life, nor was anyone else in proximity to this area.”
Officers usually start with the least amount of force and work their way to deadly force, he added.
If six heavily armed men were standing close to her just before she was shot, why was this young woman who was smaller than the men surrounding her and the man who killed her have to be shot?
“That was an execution,” said Jack Feeley, a fellow Air Force vet and friend of Babbitt, adding that it “breaks my heart to know millions of people watched my friend be executed on live television.”
A former White House national security aide and Pentagon official agreed the officer appeared trigger happy. “It was an assassination. I’ve never seen a more clear case in all my years. I’ve seen EJKs that were cleaner than that,” said the former official, referring to an extrajudicial killing, or state-sponsored killing outside the formal legal system of a country. “He stepped into it [the shot] for [expletive deleted] sake.”
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