Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer Should Resign Over Gunning Down of Unarmed Activist, Air Force Veteran Ashli Babbitt, by Congressional Police During Jan. 6, 2021, Protests

Unarmed activist and U.S. Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt was gunned down by Congressional police during noisy protests at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer should resign over this grotesque human rights violation, and deliberate subsequent efforts to let the killer go unpunished. As Congressional leaders they bear ultimate responsibility. And their inaction and diversions to avoid taking action over the killing since then constitute an implicit endorsement of the summary execution of unarmed civilian protesters on Congressional property and otherwise.

Ashli Babbit's killing at close range should be regarded as a summary execution carried out by a Congressional security employee, acting as judge, jury, and executioner, imposing the death penalty for simply being an unarmed activist present in a government building without a pass while others were noisy.

She also stood atop something looking at an opening, perhaps raising the prospect of advancing a few more feet in position, with multiple security personnel both behind her and in front of her, who could easily have grabbed her and subdued her.

California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House at the time, and remains in that position. New York Senator Chuck Schumer was Senatory Minority Leader at the time and soon after became Majority Leader.

Ashli Babbitt's murder by a Congressional security employee, and subsequent efforts by both administrative branch and Congressional bureaucrats to let the killer go unprosecuted, coinstitute an egregious human rights violation, attack on the rule of law, and an attack on fundamental American principles.

Despite efforts from some quarters to revise history, by rebranding the protests as some kind of unarmed "insurrection," no evidence has been advanced regarding any supposed effort to overthrow any government, or any use of arms beyond, perhaps, some limited number of individuals using a handful of blunt objects to break some windows.

Essentially, for the most part, the vast majority of the protesters were simply in a government building without a pass, a number of them making noise or walking around. A number of them apparently were actually admitted freely by Congressional security employees. While a limited number of individuals were later accused of using some kind of force, such conduct did not characterize Ashli Babbitt nor, apparently, the vast majority of prosters.

Judging from on-the-scene video, when Babbitt saw a broken window, Babbitt stood on top of something to look through the window, with multiple police both behind her and in front of her beyond the window, at which time she was unarmed, posed no threat, and could easily have been subdued just by grabbing her.

Instead, a Congressional policemen, of the so-called U.S. Capitol Police, fired his gun at her, killing her like a dog. Another Congressional policeman stood not far off, acting calm and unbothered while arguing with other protesters like he has having a social media debate, while Ashli Babbitt lay dying nearby.

In the left-wing so-called District of Columbia, often arguably a bit of a troubled backwater with a smaller population than Indianapolis but a bloated budget, federal prosecutors play the role of local prosecutors. They failed to bring charges over the killing, implictly endorsing the extrajudicial summary execution as a punishment for being an unarmed protester. Instead, the head of those prosecutors released a vague, somewhat rambling reflection on the nature of the broader occasion during which the killing occurred, as if composing a social media post or public relations release rather than coherent legal analysis.

The Congressional police, the so-called "U.S. Capitol Police," likewise failed to take action over the matter, essentially endorsing the summary execution.

As Speaker of the House and current Majority Leader, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer must take responsibility for the killing itself, as well as its mishandling later. Indeed, they seemed to offer their most intense efforts at recasting the horrific killing by burying it within an effort to impeach the then-sitting President over his calls to verify election results amidst a context where election numbers were, undeniably, highly unusual and statistically implausible, compared with other recent election results.

If Pelosi and Schumer do not resign, fault then lies with their home constituencies if they fail to successfully launch recall efforts.

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Key Words: U.S. Capitol Police, January 6, Ashli Babbitt, Congress, Senate, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Murder, Human Rights

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