Ashli Babbitt, an air force veteran who served four tours of duty, was killed at the U.S. Capitol when a federal officer shot her as she was attempting to pass through a broken window. She was not brandishing a weapon or otherwise threatening the officer’s life at the time she was killed. If any of the officer-involved shootings that were protested last year involved the excessive use of force, then certainly so did this one. Babbitt is arguably the first martyr in the hot civil war now beginning in America. …

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