Here is Michael L Byrd ,the Capitol Police Officer who shot Ashlee Babbitt point blank as she was entering the Capitol building .

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Byrd was cited by the House sergeant at arms during a brief discussion of the officer who shot Babbitt at a Feb. 25 House hearing. Both C-SPAN and CNN removed his name from transcripts .

The masked avenger

Now that Michael Byrd has been assured that he is not in legal jeopardy for offing Iraq war medal recipients Ashli Babbitt( a high-level security official throughout her time in service.) ,he is blabbering to the press about how many lives he saved by executing her . ("I know that day I saved countless lives,") This is course is nonsense . Even given that he thought at the time that he was saving lives ,events proved his tale a falsehood. He said 'that's my job' .But it clearly was not his job.

Babbitt like hundreds of others that day was an unarmed protester .The protest turned into a riot by some of the protesters . By attempting to enter the building she was also guilty of trespassing .(as most of those arrested are being charged with ) .
SCOTUS in Graham v Conner said that the facts of each case must be considered ;BUT , lethal force must be used only against someone who is an immediate threat to the safety of the officers or others, and is actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight. Restraint is even expected in cases where the cop is confronting an armed person.

As an example ,in Huntsville , a cop shot a man who had a gun to his own head and was failing to obey orders .The cop thought that posed a threat to himself and fellow officers . So he shot the man .The cop was prosecuted and convicted ,sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Babbitt was unarmed .
Byrd said “I could not fully see her hands or what was in the backpack or what the intentions are.”. Which means that at the time of the shooting he knew that she was not carrying a weapon.
Under Byrd's evaluation hundreds of the rioters could've been justifiably gunned down.

In Portland Antifa and BLM attacked and torched a Federal Court house. According to the DOJ review of Byrd's actions ,the cops in Portland would also be justified in gunning down random rioters in their defense of the court house . More than 60 cops were injured defending the White House when BLM protesters stormed the White House perimeter during the George Floyd protests .

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The officers and agents were injured when protesters threw “projectiles such as bricks, rocks, bottles, fireworks and other items,” according to the statement. “Personnel were also directly physically assaulted as they were kicked, punched and exposed to bodily fluids.”

CNN teams were on hand for much of the protests and witnessed protesters throwing objects at officers and pulling temporary fencing away from them.
Eleven Secret Service employees were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

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(96) More than 60 Secret Service officers and agents were injured near the White House this weekend (cnn.com)

What would the reaction be if the cops had opened fire ?