quote Originally posted by Rickady88GT: After 8 months of investigating, Rinselberg, how many people have been prosecuted? After 185 people being charged with assault or impeding Law Enforcement SOMETHING would have to happen? This is purely a political stunt and nothing will come from prosecutions except politicians kicking a dead horse for political gain. BTW, this is exactly the type of animal abuse pita endorses.

He doesn't have the "intellectual horsepower" to understand that his new favorite Leftist opinionistas are plowing old ground.

The DOJ has already determined LAST MONTH that it will not be criminally prosecuting INCOMPETENT COWARD Michael Byrd.

His latest piece of propaganda trash is a long, pointless screed from THIS MONTH on why INCOMPETENT COWARD Michael Byrd probably won't be criminally prosecuted....





He just cannot comprehend that the CIVIL LAWSUIT against INCOMPETENT COWARD Michael Byrd DOESN'T hinge on the OPINIONS of his LEFTIST COMRADES.

quote Originally posted by Rickady88GT: Rinselberg, before you threaten to post more left wing wishful propaganda, take a gander at this list of facts and attempt to answer line by line..........sense you seem to like long articles AND rather than adding more long articles,...this one has been here for quite a while without a response from you other than you don't like it here.

YUP.

He has made it more than obvious that the BREAKING NEWS irritates the sh*t out of him.

Leftists like him get very upset with facts.

Leftists like him are unable to control their own emotions.

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Rick would be doing himself a favor to look at the article that I posted--this one:

"Evaluating the Police Shooting of Ashli Babbitt"
Geoffrey Alpert, Jeff Noble, Seth Stoughton for "Lawfare"; September 9, 2021.
https://www.lawfareblog.com...ooting-ashli-babbitt

The reason that I posted this article is to address one specific point that has come up in this thread, and it's not about the "narrative that the Capitol protest was a 'deadly insurrection.'"

Did Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd summarily impose capital punishment on a mere "trespasser" when fired the round that ultimately proved fatal to Ashli Babbitt?

The fact that the media has reported, some months after January 6, that the FBI has concluded that what happened on January 6 was not an Insurrection, is of no relevance whatsoever in judging the action of Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd. What is relevant is what Lt. Byrd could have been expected to know and understand, before and then at the very moment when he fired the round that killed Ashli Babbitt.

The FBI has not released any public statement about whether the events of January 6 were or were not an Insurrection. The media reported what they describe as the conclusions of sources with inside knowledge of the FBI's investigation(s)--but there's been no official statement on this from the FBI. I do not discredit what the media has reported on this point, but be aware that the FBI itself has not gone on public record with any statement or finding about whether or not the events of January 6 were an "Insurrection."

I also recommend this, from the U.S. Department of Justice--and it's brief. Just a few paragraphs.

"Department of Justice Closes Investigation into the Death of Ashli Babbitt"
U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia; April 14, 2021.
https://www.justice.gov/usa...-death-ashli-babbitt


It's not the first time that I've posted this, from the U.S. DOJ, in this long and winding forum thread, but it bears repeating, because the idea that Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd "executed" or passed summary capital punishment on a mere "trespasser" when he shot and killed Ashli Babbitt keeps bobbing to the surface in this discussion, like the bloated corpse of a dead fish floating to the surface of an algae-infested freshwater lake.

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The only thing that I repeated or reposted was the link to an April press release from the U.S. DOJ about their closing their investigation of the officer's use of deadly force against Ashli Babbitt.

"The narrative that the Capitol protest was a 'deadly insurrection' is falling apart." That's the title of this thread. What does that even mean? The "narrative"?

Certainly, no group or no individual has been indicted--to date--on the literal and legally exacting charge of "Sedition" or "Insurrection." Putting aside the second impeachment of President Trump, when he was charged by vote of the U.S. House of Representatives with "incitement to Insurrection", if memory serves me.

The "narrative" is not dead. Nancy P's "Select House Committee To Investigate January 6" has just issued subpoenas for the testimony of Steve Bannon, Dan Scavino, Kashyap or "Kash" Patel and Mark Meadows.

Rick and others here may think that the "narrative" should be dead, but in reality, it isn't dead. Not yet. And it won't breathe its dying breath anytime soon.

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quote Originally posted by rinselberg: Certainly, no group or no individual has been indicted--to date--on the literal and legally exacting charge of "Sedition" or "Insurrection." The "narrative" is not dead.

Only in the diseased and delusional head of a Leftist could there be an "insurrection"..... without anyone "insurrecting".

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It's instructive to note that this is the same delusional mentality that desperately and pathetically clung to the "Trump - Russia Collusion" narrative even as it was systematically debunked and destroyed.

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