Capitol Officer Who Fatally Shot Ashli Babbitt Reveals His Identity
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A police investigation recently cleared Lt. Michael Byrd of any wrongdoing in the Jan. 6 shooting.
The Capitol Police officer whom officials recently cleared of wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a Jan. 6 rioter revealed his identity for the first time Thursday in a sit-down interview. Lt. Michael Byrd, who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt while she was climbing through the broken window of a door into the House Speaker’s Lobby during the Capitol riot, sat down with the NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt to share his point of view on the events of that day. “I tried to wait as long as I could,” Byrd, a 28-year veteran of the Capitol Police force, told Holt about the moments leading up to him pulling the trigger. “I hoped and prayed no one tried to enter through those doors. But their failure to comply required me to take the appropriate action to save the lives of members of Congress and myself and my fellow officers.”More Related News