Seeking to rectify what she views as a grave injustice by the Jan. 6 House Select Committee in not recognizing the death of Ashli Babbitt or holding accountable the officer who shot the unarmed Washington, D.C., Capitol protester, Rep. Lauren Boebert made an unusual gesture during a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
The Western Journal described Babbitt as a “Trump-supporting Air Force veteran who was shot to death by a Capitol Police officer on Jan. 6, 2021.”
When Boebert (R-CO) noticed that Micki Witthoeft, the mother of Ashli Babbitt, was in attendance at the hearing, she left her seat (though the hearing was in process), approached Witthoeft and gave her a hug.
C-SPAN televised the hearing but did not show the embrace during its broadcast.
Others noted Boebert’s warm overture and posted photos and video on social media channels.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and several other conservatives have noted how legacy media networks and the Jan. 6 Select Committee have remained silent on Babbitt’s death and claim their silence on the matter as “an example of the left’s toxic bias against conservatives,” according to the Journal.
During Tuesday’s Hearing, Taylor-Greene urged the Oversight Committee to hold Babbitt’s “murderer” accountable and to end the “two-tiered justice system” that has “been weaponized to politically persecute Jan. 6 defendants.”
“There’s a woman in this room whose daughter was murdered on Jan. 6 — Ashli Babbitt,” Taylor-Greene said. “There’s never been a trial. “As a matter of fact, no one has cared about the person that shot and killed her.”
Taylor Greene continued. “And no one in this Congress has really addressed that issue.”
Taylor-Greene also decried the treatment many Jan. 6 defendants have been subjected to — many of whom she claimed have been wrongfully imprisoned in “inhumane conditions” for the past two years.
She said: “I believe that there are many people that came into the Capitol on Jan. 6 whose civil rights and liberties are being violated heavily.”
“And this committee will — I hope, Mr. Chairman — look into these civil rights abuses because they’re happening in a jail here right in this city.”
The congresswoman added: “I would like to say and point out that civil rights and liberties are important, but we have to make sure that we crack down on the two-tiered justice system because that needs to end.”
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