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| Subject: Anarcho-Capitalist NEWS: Woman shot, killed at US Capitol was a Libertarian Thu Jan 07, 2021 1:37 am | |
| Ashli Babbitt, shown here with her husband Aaron Babbitt in a 2018 photo from social media, was identified as the woman shot and killed while participating in the takeover of the Capitol Building in Washington D.C., Wednesday. Babbitt was a U.S. Air Force veteran, according to media reports.
Ashli Babbitt, 35, served 14 years in the Air Force, her husband told the television station.
An unnamed family member identified Babbitt as the woman in video footage on the internet, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. However, the family had not been able to confirm Babbitt's identity with authorities in Washington, the Times reported.
The Times reported Babbitt lived in Ocean Beach, Calif.
The Capitol was stormed by a mob shortly after President Donald Trump held a nearby rally in which he once again claimed that the November election had been “stolen.”
Congress was in the midst of certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College win when the mob smashed through the Capitol’s security, and lawmakers were scurried to secure locations.
Babbitt was apparently a staunch Trump supporter, and her social media accounts were filled with posts supporting the president. She tweeted on Tuesday, “Nothing will stop us…. they can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours….dark to light.”
Nothing will stop us....they can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours....dark to light! — CommonAshSense (@Ashli_Babbitt) January 5, 2021
Babbitt was remarried in 2019, according to her social media accounts. Her ex-husband, Timothy McEntee, said they served together in the Air Force, according to the Los Angeles Times.
She was the owner and operator of a swimming pool cleaning company in San Diego since 2017, according to her Facebook page.
On her Twitter profile, Babbitt described herself as a Libertarian who loved her “dude,” dog and country. She joined the platform in 2016 and had more than 5,500 followers.
Babbitt’s Twitter account showed her in a photo posed in a shirt bearing the words, “We are Q," a reference to QAnon, an organization that promotes baseless conspiracy theories, the Times reported.
On Wednesday morning, she retweeted a post that called on Vice President Mike Pence to resign and then be charged with treason.
Pence, who was overseeing the certification in the Capitol, had refused Trump’s demand that he ignore the tally and declare Trump the victor.
.https://www.stripes.com/news/us/report-woman-shot-killed-at-us-capitol-was-air-force-veteran-1.657655
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