GOP Using Ashli Babbitt’s Death to Rewrite Jan. 6

Aaron Blake: “What’s perhaps most notable about the effort is how slowly it has built. We had the graphic video of Babbitt’s death almost immediately after the Capitol riot. Very little has been added to the record since then, beyond the officer’s being cleared two months ago. But as the questioning of the narrative of the Capitol riot has grown — and with authorities still declining to identify the officer involved — a chorus has swelled around the Babbitt issue as well.”

“It’s all a logical progression of the effort to recast the Jan. 6 riot.”