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Officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt had SHOCKING track record
On January 6, 2021, Capitol Police officer Michael Byrd shot and killed Ashli Babbitt, who was unarmed. Despite the lawsuit Babbitt’s family filed against Byrd and an eyebrow-raising disciplinary track record, Byrd has been repeatedly rewarded.
Not only was he given a “$36,000 retention bonus, more than $21,000 in security upgrades at his personal residence, and instructions that [he] not sit for a fitness-for-duty evaluation after Jan. 6, 2021,” Byrd was also “promoted from lieutenant to captain in 2023,” according to a recent article by Blaze News investigative journalist Joseph Hanneman.
Now Hanneman and fellow Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker join Jill Savage and Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson on “Blaze News Tonight” to break it down.
Byrd has “a history of carelessness with weapons,” says Hanneman. The most notable of these is the incident when Byrd “fired his service weapon at fleeing vehicles near his home while his neighbor was in the line of fire,” which was recently reported by a congressional oversight committee.
Byrd also “left his service weapon on the toilet tank in the Capitol Visitor Center.”
However, there are “three more case files” on Byrd, but these have magically “disappeared.”
“The records are missing,” says Hanneman, adding that from what he understands, the contents of these missing reports make the incidents we already know about “look rather tame.”
But Byrd’s incomplete record isn’t the only mystery. There’s also the conundrum of Frick and Frack — “the unidentified men near Ashli Babbitt when she was shot.”
To learn more about the scandals surrounding the death of Ashli Babbitt, watch the episode above.
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Former Jan. 6 defendant Daniel Goodwyn won an important 2024 appeals court ruling against judicial censorship of so-called “disinformation,” but he has seen it slip away by the actions of a federal district court judge and the Department of Justice as the clock ran out on his case.
For more than 18 months, Goodwyn, 35, of San Francisco, battled U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, who ordered monitoring of Goodwyn’s internet communications for what he called “disinformation” and “misinformation” about Jan. 6 and other subjects.
Despite a February 2024 Court of Appeals ruling chiding Walton and overturning his original order imposing probation monitoring of Goodwyn’s speech, the judge reissued the same condition in June.
'There is no accountability.'
Goodwyn again appealed, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled the case is now moot because Goodwyn finished his one-year term of supervised release on Aug. 25.
“The appeals court has just given the D.C. and other district court judges the green light to enact censorship while anointing themselves as the new ministers of truth,” defense attorney Carolyn Stewart told Blaze News.
“This is all against the U.S. Constitution, with First and Fourth Amendment violations,” Stewart said. “And the green light also goes to the DOJ and FBI to infect defendants’ computers and other devices with spyware without any oversight. There is no accountability.”
The DOJ claims Pretrial and Probation Services never installed any monitoring software or devices on Goodwyn’s computer because he had a pending appeal. Stewart, however, told the Court of Appeals the DOJ accessed the internal logs of Goodwyn’s employer, the news site StopHate.com, to see what her client had been posting.
The Court of Appeals issued a per curiam order on Oct. 28 dismissing Goodwyn’s appeal as moot. “Appellant has not demonstrated that any exception to the mootness doctrine applies to this appeal,” wrote a three-judge panel that included Karen Henderson, Cornelia Pillard, and Justin Walker.
Those judges were appointed to the Court of Appeals by Presidents Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, and Donald J. Trump, respectively.
“I believe we met the standard for an exception to mootness,” Stewart said.
In September, Stewart filed a motion opposing the DOJ’s desire to dismiss the case. She instead asked for “an order where the lower court is ordered to answer who monitored his internet use and digital devices, and what was installed for monitoring that was conducted in violation of his Constitutional rights.”
The latest Court of Appeals ruling leaves the questions raised by Goodwyn’s case largely unanswered. Stewart said terrible damage was done to defendants’ First Amendment rights because the appeals court allowed Judge Walton to re-up an unconstitutional condition on her client’s free speech.
Trespassing conviction
Goodwyn accepted a plea offer from the DOJ on one count of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds. He walked into the Senate Wing Door of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and spent 36 seconds inside the building. He served a 60-day prison sentence in 2023.
Judge Walton was highly critical of Goodwyn for his appearance in March 2023 on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News. The judge said Goodwyn minimized his own participation in Jan. 6 unrest and spread “misinformation” and “disinformation” about Jan. 6 and the 2020 presidential election.
The DOJ, which initially did not seek monitoring of Goodwyn’s computer, supported the reimposition of that condition in June 2024. Prosecutors said Goodwyn needed to be kept away from “extremist” media content like that allegedly published by StopHate on its website and in documentaries.
Prosecutors said Judge Walton met the conditions set by the Court of Appeals after a three-judge panel said he “plainly erred” by imposing computer monitoring.
“The computer-monitoring condition protects the public interest by deterring Goodwyn from encouraging future violence and thus threatening public safety, at least while he is still under court supervision,” Assistant U.S. Attorneys Elizabeth Danello and Lisa Tobin Rubio wrote in a July filing in the case.
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