Don’t Pardon Michael Byrd. Indict Him Instead.
The Washington, D.C., establishment is, needless to say, up in arms over President-elect Trump’s plans to pardon the protestors who stormed the Capitol on January 6 four years ago. After hundreds of criminal prosecutions and sometimes long jail sentences meted out by federal judges, Trump’s pardons will be upending not only the entire prosecution-and-conviction scheme but also the ludicrous official narrative that has been used to justify the prosecutions and sentences. The narrative states that the protestors were intent on violently overthrowing the federal government and installing Trump into power — overcoming the opposition, of course, of the Pentagon, the CIA, the NSA, the Capitol police, the D.C. police, and the FBI.
It would be difficult to find a more ludicrous narrative than that. It’s worth mentioning that not one of the protestors had AR-15s or other assault rifles or high-powered handguns. Just think — this would have been the first violent overthrow of a government in history without one “insurrectionist” wielding a gun.
Not so, however, with the Capitol police. They were fully armed, as one of the unarmed protestors, a woman named Ashli Babbitt, discovered. As Babbitt was attempting to get through a broken glass window inside the Capitol, Capitol policeman Michael Byrd shot her dead with his gun instead of simply arresting her and taking her into custody.
Mind you, Babb
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