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Rather than this kind of “education”, we need to be teaching our young people the difference between right and wrong and what respect really means. I think that many of the problems we’re having in this country have to do with the fact that our young people are “taught” at an early age to have no respect for rules or laws and that they are also “taught” to play the role of victims. I have no doubt the shooting officer was under stress, but from what I can see from the three videos of the incident I have seen, the officer is not able to reasonably control his stress, this is clearly an unjustified shooting, and if I were on a Board of Review, would make that determination. The other law enforcement officers acted responsibly, professionally, and coolly, and with restraint even after a weapons discharge and grievous wounding of a person in their immediate vicinity. The shooting officer is the only person to discharge his weapon. There were lots of other law enforcement officers in the immediate vicinity. He has demonstrated he is not reliable in a stressful situation.

The officer should be permanently assigned to non-weapons carrying duties, or should be removed from service. Should he be allowed to carry a gun? Again, likely not. Should this officer be prosecuted? Likely not. You cannot shoot someone just because they fail to follow your commands or disobey warnings if they pose no imminent physical threat to another person. Trained law enforcement officers have an even higher bar and standard.

“Fog of War” does not relieve a law enforcement officer or an individual from their duty to take care in the responsible application of the use of deadly force. The policeman is on administrative leave.Ĭapitol Police say the employee involved in the Ashli Babbitt shooting inside the Capitol yesterday “has been placed on administrative leave and their police powers have been suspended pending” an investigation outcome: Ībsolutely NOT! The general standard is that use of deadly force is authorized as a last resort to prevent the imminent infliction of serious bodily harm or death by one person against another. Everyone, and I mean everyone, needs to put feelings and emotions aside and wait for facts. Maybe the officer only meant to injure her?ĭid he only use a gun because he did not have pepper spray? Did the cops behind the mob have pepper spray or tear gas? Could they have helped out by not using deadly force? How do you know for sure which one if any has weapons? Was Babbitt a threat to the man or others? The way she moved I doubt he could tell she did not have weapons. Your job is to protect the Capitol and the elected officials. The officer’s heart rate was probably at least 190 beats per minute. He said: “War is the realm of uncertainty three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.”

It comes from Prussian military analyst Carl von Clausewitz. Have you heard the phrase fog of war? It is “a phrase now much used to describe the complexity of military conflicts.” Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs January 7, 2021 In videos that appear to capture the shooting, a woman wearing a Make America Great Again flag steps up to a ledge next to a door to the Speaker's Lobby when she is shot.Ĭhief of Capitol Police indicated that members of Congress were sheltering there. Other eyewitness accounts said that she was told to stop, but refused. The video is loud, but I heard the officers behind the people tell them to stop many times.