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Watchdog suit forces DOJ to release memo declining criminal prosecution of Ashli Babbitt’s shooter

From Just The News:

Legal watchdog group Judicial Watch says it has received 102 pages of new Justice Department records related to the fatal shooting of Jan. 6 protester Ashli Babbitt.

Included in the documents is a memo recommending the “United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia decline for criminal prosecution the fatal shooting of” Babbitt.

The documents also state that U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, the shooter, “did not create a police report or documents” related to the incident.

Babbitt, an unarmed 14-year veteran of the Air Force, was fatally shot and she attempted to climb through a broken window into the lobby of the House chamber during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

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