On January 6, local time, according to Washington police sources, 4 people have died in the protest clashes that broke out among Trump's supporters at the US Capitol, including a woman who was shot.
Robert Conti, acting chief of the Washington D.C. Police Department, held a news conference that night to say that one of the dead was a woman shot by Capitol police during the violent onslaught, and another woman and two men died during emergency treatment. In addition, at least 14 police officers were injured and 52 demonstrators were arrested.
It is reported that the female deceased, named Ashli Babbitt, was a veteran of the US Air Force who had served in the US military four times and had served for 14 years.
A retired female soldier of the US Air Force who joined the army 4 times and did not die, but now she was shot and killed by the police! If she hadn't joined the pro-Trump march, she wouldn't have fallen on the first threshold of the New Year. A few comments on this:
First, more details have been revealed, compared to the female SOLDIER who died in her 20s, this US Air Force female soldier may be lucky
Babbitt is a staunch supporter of President Trump. However, Babbitt's mother-in-law said: Really can't understand why she decided to do this?
Hundreds of Trump supporters broke into the Capitol on the 6th to try to overturn the results of his defeat, which forced Congress to postpone the meeting aimed at confirming the victory of democratic president-elect Joseph (Joe) Biden Jr. in the general election.
A witness to the U.S. Capitol said the shooting occurred after law enforcement authorities asked people to "return."
"We rushed into the room inside and there was a young lady rushing toward the window; some police and secret service agents said, 'Go back, come down, don't stand in the way.'" A protester from New Jersey told CBS affiliate WUSA that police and other law enforcement officials warned people to back off.
He said he had seen the female U.S. Air Force soldier shot dead at the Capitol, and the woman didn't heed the police's warnings, and just as everyone was scrambling to jump up and pull people back, the police shot her in the neck and she fell on me. The man told the local television station he saw blood flowing from the woman's mouth, neck and nose.
In fact, the departure of the retired female soldier has taken away many unknown questions: Why does she support Trump? If life could be repeated, would she regret her own actions against Congress? If there was a chance to choose next time, would she still make such a choice?
Her departure took away a lot of unsynchronized question marks! However, some analysts believe that compared with those female soldiers in their 20s who died mysteriously during their service in the US military, the retired female soldier of the US Air Force who has joined the army for 4 times is also lucky.
In recent years, the mysterious deaths of young female soldiers in the US military have continued one after another. According to the US "military" website reported on January 3, a 19-year-old female soldier from the US Army's Fort Bliss base was found dead inside the base. The body of the female soldier named Athia Graham was found. At a Jan. 2 news conference, the U.S. military said the cause of her death was still under investigation.
On the past December 9, 2020, the British Sky News Network reported that due to a series of scandals, the US military had to remove 14 senior US military officials from the Fort Hood military base in Texas, including many US generals, including a deputy commander of the base.
A 20-year-old female soldier named Vanessa Gillen was brutally killed and dumped into the wilderness. In just one year, including Vanessa Gillen, who was brutally killed and dismembered by a hammer, 25 soldiers assigned to the base died by suicide, murder or accident.
Second, in military conflicts and violent confrontations, the US Capitol has been bombed many times by force, when will Iran break into the US Capitol
This is by no means the first time the Capitol has been hurt by violence.
The most famous incident occurred in 1954, when four Puerto Rican nationalists raised the island's flag, chanted "Freedom of Puerto Rico" and fired about 30 shots from the gallery of the House of Representatives. Five members of Congress were injured, one of whom was seriously injured.
In fact, as early as 207 years ago, in 1814, only 14 years after the opening of the building, British troops drove straight in, looted the U.S. Capitol, set fire to the north and south wings, and ignited the Library of Congress. Thankfully, a sudden rainstorm prevented it from being completely burned down, but left the Capitol in "the most spectacular ruins".
It was not only british troops who broke into the U.S. Capitol, but also the Germans. In 1915, a German man placed three detonators in the Senate lounge; the explosion occurred on midnight eve. Beforehand, the German man poisoned and killed his pregnant wife, and planned to continue to shoot the financier J. P. Morgan, and blew up a steamboat loaded with ammunition heading for England. After the incident, the bomber chose to commit suicide before being arrested.
In 1971, the "Underground Meteorologists" group detonated explosives in the Capitol to protest the U.S. bombing of Laos...
"We will fly a plane into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday to avenge Soleimani!" The US "Newsweek" reported on the 5th that a number of air traffic controllers in New York suddenly heard a mysterious voice that had been technically processed on Monday, claiming that they would create a plane crash similar to "9/11" to avenge sulaimani, commander of the "Quds Force" of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who was assassinated at the beginning of last year.
Judging from the current situation of military conflict in the world, it is not necessary to think of whether Iran will break into the US Capitol in various ways to retaliate.
While the U.S. intelligence community considers this threat to be unprofessional, the FBI, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) are investigating it.
Third, a veteran of the U.S. military who broke into the Congress: "We have had enough"
Loftus said emotionally: "Even the second floor of the Capitol is full of people. ”
Kevin Loftus is a veteran of the U.S. Army and one of hundreds of demonstrators who broke into the interior of the U.S. Capitol on the 6th local time.
Wearing a military uniform and no mask, reporters saw that Loftus's hat was printed with the slogan "Make America Great Again", constantly showing off to other pro-Trump demonstrators that he was one of those who successfully entered the Capitol.
In the garden crowded with Trump supporters, he said triumphantly: "I went in." ”
"I took two selfies and then the police started throwing tear gas at us and we had to leave." Loftus, as an American veteran, denounced "election fraud."
Loftus said, "We're here to send a message to the world, and as Trump supporters, we've had enough." "It's better to hold a new election."
At the demonstration site, many Republican voters, like Loftus, were convinced of electoral fraud.
Fourth, what is the greatest shame in the United States? The US military 'world police' dominate everywhere
"This is a moment of great shame for our country." Late at night on the 6th, US time, former US President Barack Obama expressed his position on the violence in the Capitol.
Almost at the same time as Obama's voice, an American netizen also said bluntly on Twitter: "I have never been so ashamed to be an American as I am today." ”
On Twitter, you can brush out a similar post almost every few seconds: as an American, when you receive photos from friends from other countries, you really feel that your face is lost, and you can't help but feel ashamed that you are an American...
As it turns out, he wasn't the first, nor was he the only, much less the last American to think so
What is America's greatest shame?
It is not that the US Capitol is besieged, not that a veteran female soldier is shot, nor that a large number of female soldiers are sexually assaulted, 14 senior US military officers are collectively dismissed, but wielding a big stick as the world policeman, it is the US military's insult and indiscriminate bombardment of some weak and small countries, and it is the "double standard" of the United States for itself and others.
Some people say that Trump and his supporters have done their best to mess up the United States.