It really is shameful that you are making light of the woman's death, This is the same kind of stuff that Alex Jones did with the kids at Sandy hook and ended up in court for.
The far-right propaganda machine doesn't know what to do with Ashli Babbitt
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/capitol-trump-riots-storming-coverage-deaths-15861812.php
Millions of Americans have seen video of her dying.
An array of videos shot from different angles shows Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran from the San Diego area, in a group of rioters smashing windows into the Speaker's Lobby, a chamber in the U.S. Capitol. Inside were lawmakers and staffers, feet away from an angry crowd attempting to break its way in.
Once a window shatters, Babbitt leaps up and tries to hurtle herself through. A Capitol police officer inside the Speaker's Lobby shoots her at close range and she falls back, fatally wounded.
The shocking death, the first of five at the Capitol that day, was immediately weaponized by far-right propagandists. But less than a week removed from her death, Babbitt has become a confused pawn in their disinformation war.
There are two primary narratives, one that formed mere minutes after she was shot and another that emerged about half a day later.
Before authorities even confirmed she was dead, notorious radio host Alex Jones was talking about her death on-air. He repeatedly referred to the shooting as an “execution,” and posted graphic, uncensored video of the shooting all over his website to elicit outrage.
(It’s worth noting here that Jones repeatedly claimed in broadcasts leading up to the riot that he was in communication with the White House about
organizing the event and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on logistics.)
Frequent InfoWars guest Tom Pappert’s National File “news” site also picked up that angle. “Ashli Babbit, Peaceful Protester Executed by DC Police,” one headline reads. Others skipped pretence and went
straight to calling her a martyr.
This fits neatly into existing white nationalist narratives. Few events have rallied the modern movement like the
killing of Vicki Weaver by an FBI sniper at Ruby Ridge in 1992. Her death still resonates powerfully as a propaganda tool for those seeking to show the government is willing to kill its own civilians, and Babbitt’s death, also at the hands of the state, has parallels that are easy and convenient to echo.
Full story:
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/capitol-trump-riots-storming-coverage-deaths-15861812.php
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