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  Also she wasn't   
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  a threat. If he didn't stop her, the rest of them would follow through after at which point it would be impossible for him to control the situation, putting the people he was assigned to protect at risk. It would actually be negligent of him to not stop her.
  
  Very agreed. I'm willing to go so far as to say her death kind of broke the fever on 1/6. I think if they hadn't shot her a lot more people would have had to be killed when the crowds came in and got violent.
context: From article:
  Micki Witthoeft, the mother of Ashli Babbitt, was arrested for blocking traffic on Capitol grounds on Friday, the two-year anniversary of the death of her daughter after she stormed the building in a pro-Trump mob.
  Witthoeft, 58, was arrested around 1:45 p.m. for failing to obey police orders and blocking and obstructing roadways, according to a statement from U.S. Capitol Police. The group did not have a permit to demonstrate, the statement said, and Witthoeft “asked to be arrested.”
  As is routine in these types of arrests, she was processed, given a citation to appear in court and released, the statement said.
  The arrest came as other groups opposed to the events of Jan. 6 rallied outside the Capitol on the anniversary of the insurrection, decrying what they viewed as the unraveling of hard-earned civil rights.
  “What we saw here two years ago was a physical attack on our democracy, but what we have seen since then, in some ways, is even more insidious,” said Arndrea Waters King, the wife of Martin Luther King III, the late civil rights leader’s eldest son. “We’ve seen the structural attack on our democracy. We are seeing laws that should lift us all up being used to limit and roll back hard-won rights.”
  Witthoeft and her supporters were blocking traffic on Independence Avenue SW, near First Street SW, when Capitol Police officers and officials approached the group, directed them to move to the sidewalk and warned that if they did not, they would be arrested, according to the statement.
  “We’re not discussing it. Sidewalk now, or you’re under arrest. It’s that simple. We’re not discussing it. We’re not having any discussions. The sidewalk, or you’ll be placed under arrest,” an officer said, according to a video of the interaction posted by News2Share’s Ford Fischer, a documentarian who films political activism.
  Witthoeft then turned her back to police and placed her hands behind her back, the video shows. “Go ahead,” the officer said, as officers took Witthoeft by the arms toward a police vehicle.
  Babbitt was fatally shot by police on Jan. 6, 2021, as she was attempting to climb through a window of a barricaded door inside the Capitol building. On Friday, Witthoeft and supporters shouted Babbitt’s name as officers led Witthoeft to the police vehicle, according to a live stream posted on YouTube. >
  
  She's only 58!? She looks older than most 75 year olds I know! I guess paranoia will age you... >
  
  We shouldn't shame women for letting their hair go gray. Make fun of her for being a bad parent and a moron, not because of what she looks like >
  
  No let’s make fun of how she looks. You gotta admit these bigots are ugly. It’s almost like hate makes you ugly on the outside. We owe these traitors nothing. >
  
  It's not for the traitors.. it's for the normal and good old ladies who let their hair grow grey. >
  
  Remember, Ashli Babbitt did not die for Donald Trump. She died for nothing, because of Donald Trump. >
  
  Well. Sucks Ashli B died. Sucks more her mom didn’t raise her to evaluate the media she consumes to see what kind of propaganda she was consuming. And it sucks even more that the people who invited Ashli to commit the crime that caused the police to kill her justifiably aren’t being held responsible for her death as it very much seems to be the fault of those who brainwashed the conservatives in our country to beleive lies that she is dead. >
  
  The terrorist doesn't fall far from the handler. >
  
  You should see her brother. >
  
  I wonder if people called her Trashli? I would have. >
  
  I had a girlfriend from a really trashy part of my county, and my sisters called her Trashley.
  In retrospect, she was "trashy" because her parents hated each other and her father was a terminal alcoholic who used to come home every day for his lunch breaks and drink 3 Miller High Lifes, followed by a fourth in the driveway, which he would then leave in the mailbox.
  It was really sad. >
  
  How is what her parents do reflecting on her? >
  
  It doesn't, now.
  But we were young and teens from bad homes typically show it externally in some way. >
  
  The victimhood never ends.
  Her daughter literally tried to violently overthrow the American government. No sympathy. >
  
  It’s really sad the amount of people that want to make her into a martyr.    You broke through a fucking window.  Her husband has gone on tucker Carlson several times to “defend” his wife.  
  You break into a window whether or not there’s an active riot going on you should not expect that to end well.  What happened to the right to self defense?   How was the officer supposed to know she was supposedly no threat? >
  
  
  How was the officer supposed to know she was supposedly no threat?
  
  Also she wasn't not a threat. If he didn't stop her, the rest of them would follow through after at which point it would be impossible for him to control the situation, putting the people he was assigned to protect at risk. It would actually be negligent of him to not stop her.
  If you're leading a mob into a restricted area, that makes you a threat even if you yourself aren't armed. Him using force to stop her effectively stopped the whole group by bringing them back to reality.