Cop who killed Ashli Babbitt has ‘significant’ discipline history, including gun incidents: Report

From Blaze Media:

The U.S. Capitol Police officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on January 6 once fired his service weapon at fleeing vehicles near his home while his neighbor was in the line of fire, a congressional oversight committee reported.

Judicial Watch sued the U.S. Air Force for records related to Byrd’s stay at Joint Base Andrews. Costs for his accommodations at the Presidential Inn totaled more than $35,000 from July 8, 2021, through Jan. 28, 2022, according to records obtained in 2023 by Judicial Watch.

Capitol Police instructed Byrd not to sit for a fitness-for-duty evaluation following Jan. 6, “concerned that Byrd may fail” and if he did, “he would not be permitted to carry his service weapon,” the letter said.

In September 2021, Byrd attempted to purchase a shotgun but failed the mandatory background check required by federal law, the report said. The department “took steps to provide him with a USCP-issued shotgun and intended to ‘lend’ him a shotgun even if his background check ‘did not come through,’” the report said.

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