5-3-25 The Weekend Hour 1: Ashley Babbit’s Widower Finally Gets Compensated

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follow right now. Go do that. So the Department of Justice on I Forget Now Wednesday or Thursday confirmed finally a settlement quote in principle that they've reached in the thirty million dollars wrongful death lawsuit that was filed on behalf of the estate of Ashley Babbitt. Remember Ashley Babbitt, the young soldier that was killed by a female soldier that was killed by a cop inside the capitol on that day that democracy almost died January sixth, twenty twenty one. Yeah, finally.

Now terms of the settlement have not been disclosed. I don't know what the specific terms are, but there was a hearing this week in front of Judge Anna Rays. Both sides during this hearing indicated that it could be at least a month before the final agreement is before the agreement is finalized and then made public, which is not uncommon in these They do this they go into the courtroom to announce that, Hey, we judge, we've got

the framework for a settlement agreement. So we would ask you to put everything on hold, you know, stop the schedule, stop the discovery, stop the motions, and everything else. Give us. In this case, they asked for thirty days or more to finalize the agreement. So that's pretty normal. Everything's going to be worked out. So what Let's go back a little bit. In January of last year, twenty twenty four, Judicial Watch a great organization. If you're not aware of it,

just go online and check it out. Judicial Watch. They represented Ashley's widower, Aaron, and they filed a complaint under the Federal Torque Claims Act, and they accused the government of causing personal injury and death caused by the negligent or wrongful acts or omissions of one or more employees of the federal government. So you remember what happened around I don't know two thirty three o'clock in the afternoon on January sixth, Michael Byrd, the Capitol Police lieutenant, shot

Ashley in the shoulder. She and other protesters were remember they were packed in this small air outside the Speaker's lobby where two protesters had smashed in windows. According to the lawsuit quote, Ashley was ambushed when she was shot by Lieutenant Michael Byrd. Multiple witnesses at the scene yelled, you killed her. She was thirty five years old at

the time. She was completely unarmed, and if you recall, she was just always just bumfuzzles me because every cop that you know, every cop that I know, every cop that I've ever represented or dealt with, or had any occasion to talk to about this knows that before you fire your service weapon, that you want to make certain that the subject that you're trying to kill is in your line of sight and that there's nobody else around, or if there's somebody else around, then you either have

to you know, you got to make a split second decision, a nanosecond decision. Do I fire and if there's somebody standing next to or behind the person that I'm trying to stop, do I run the risk that I might hit them? Or do I pause and run the risk that I might get killed. Well, in this case, there were armed cops right behind Ashley Babbitt, So if she were presenting a threat to Captain Bird, they would have or could have seen it, and they could have disarmed her.

They could have arrested her, they could have taken her to the ground. There's a number of things that they could have done, but they didn't do anything. Now somewhat in their defense, I'm only what I'm really trying to do is point out that Captain Bird wildly shot into a crowd in my opinion, and hit Ashley Babbitt, and or he deliberately took aim at her and shot at her.

But if you recall that video. They're in the stairwell and the crowd is pushing upwards, and she's kind of trapped, and she's kind of being pushed upwards too, and they're being pushed toward a As you reach the top of the stairs, there is a door. And then as you're looking at the door where Ashley would be standing, to the left of that door, there are windows, and you can see through the windows that on the other side of the windows, perpendicular to those windows is a door

that goes into the Speaker's office. So, Captain Bird, I

just want you to think about this. If you were Captain Bird, but you weren't a cop, and you were, let's say, in your home in that situation, and you could close your door and lock your door, and the people that were in a other in a stairwell or on a patio or something and trying to break into your house, but they had not yet broken into your house, would you have been justified in opening the door, stepping out and wildly shooting, And perhaps you shot somebody that

was standing out in the yard that had seen the commotion and stopped to see what was going on, Because that's in essence what he did, and I think in that situation it would be a pretty close case in so far as whether it was self defense or not. But that's it was clearly not self defense here, because you had cops in the stairwell, you had him behind not only the door that was keeping the crowd at bay, but you had him inside the door that led into

the Speaker's office. And absent any facts that I'd not been able to find anywhere in the lawsuit, there was no reason why he couldn't have closed the door and escaped and left and gone somewhere else. But instead he chose to open the door, stick his arm out, and fire into the crowd. That was on January sixth, Now the Speaker's lobby. Protesters had smashed some of those windows, but no one had gone through the windows. The lawsuit seat says Ashley was ambushed when she was shot by

Lieutenant Michael Byrd. Multiple witnesses at the scene yelled, you killed her. Now. The Department of Justice under Sleepy Joe Biden, announced in April of twenty one that it had closed an investigation into the killing. Biden's Department of Justice determined that Bird did not violate Ashley's civil rights and in a press release that they sent out in April of twenty one, So just a mere three four months after

the event. It's pretty fast investigation, isn't it. The press release said this, as this requirement has been in turn violating her civil rights. As this requirement has been interpreted by the courts, evidence that an officer acted out of fear, mistake, panic, misperception, negligence, or even poor judgment cannot establish the high level of intent required. And then what happened, Well, it kind of got even worse. It's the Weekend with Michael Brown. Text

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of personal and professional misconduct. He's the guy you or may not remember this story, but you remember prior to January sixth, twenty twenty one, when there was I mean it was a national news story. I forget whether it's a tourist or a Capital employee, but somebody walked into a Capital visitors center bathroom. Now, if you're not familiar,

they've and you and I paid for it. They spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a visitor center on the east side of the of the US Capital so that you come in through this you know, giant entryway, and you you know, there's all sorts of you know, like museum like displays, and then of course you know, you get uh, you get badged or you get your little pass and then you go through a tunnel and then you come out into the rotunda. And so it's a way to funnel all of the visitors in through

one way. It's it's enhanced security. It's a TSA like protocol. It's really kind of stupid in my opinion. But nonetheless, uh, and what's really stupid is how much money we spent on it. But one of those tourists has to pee real badly or I don't know, maybe number two. I don't know, but they got to go to the bathroom. It'd be but they've been waiting in line forever drinking too much diaco, and they and they walk into the bathroom, go into a stall, and holy crap, there's a gun.

So they report the gun to the you know, they stepped back out, you know, find it, you know, a Capitol police officer somewhere, and say, oh, there's a gun in there on the toilet. So you know, they immediately you know, block everything off and go in and oh, well,

guess what it was Captain Bird's service weapon. I guess he had to take a whiz real badly or I don't know, maybe number two, but whatever, he took his for whatever reason, took his gun out of his holster and set it on the toilet or on the floor. I'm not sure where it was and got up and finished his business and walked out and left his gun. Wow. And he got promoted. Yes, and that's the guy that

shot Ashley Babbitt. But that's not the only thing. There's a lot of other stuff that only one place that I know, maybe other places did, the only one place

that I know of reported it. And it was all because Congressman Barry Laudermic Laudermilk back in twenty twenty four wrote a letter to the Department of Justice about Captain Bird and they were conducting a review a hearing, and his Captain Bird record was uncovered during this House Administration Oversight Subcommittee investigation into just the General Capitol Police disciplinary process. And in the letter, the chairman, Barry Laudermick, he's a

Republican from Georgia, wrote this this subcommittee. His debt is dedicated to ensuring that the US Capitol Police has autonomy

from political pressures so it can make operational and personnel decisions. However, based on the information obtained by the subcommittee regarding the US Capitol Police as handling a Capital Bird following January sixth, twenty twenty one, and his significant disciplinary history, I have concerns the congressman wrote about the Capitol Police's decision to promote him to the rank of captain, and then they go on to describe five incidents, actually more than that,

because some of these contain more than one incident, but five categories one. In two thousand and four, there was an incident where Captain Bird, who was off duty, shot his weapon at a stolen vehicle as it was driving away from him out of his neighborhood. You and I do that, we're probably going to get charged with menacing or unlawfully discharging a weapon or shooting with you know, and if we'd hit somebody, perhaps manslaughter because at that

point you're not justified in shooting somebody. In fact, don't even hit with him in his car. It was just a stolen car. Now how he knew that, I don't know, but that's what he did. Twenty fifteen, a fellow officer filed a conduct Unbecoming an Officer complaint after Captain Bird, again off duty, confronted this other cop while the cop was working at a high school football game in an

incident that apparently had a bunch of racial overtones. The third he got a thirty three day suspension in twenty nineteen. This is what for his leaving the gun in the Capitol Hill bathroom in the visitor center, a thirty three day suspension. Fairly relax, I guess he also was he failed to pass He failed to pass a routine background check just after January sixth, when he was trying to purchase a shotgun for home protection after the United States Capitol.

The police was working to provide Bird a department issued shotgun. Instead, he failed the training Wait a minute, I'm sorry, now, I don't shoot my shotgun a lot. I used to hunt, you know, pheasant and quail all the time, but I haven't lately. But I'm not quite sure how you fail a training program in the use of a shotgun. Maybe

it's different for a cop. I don't know. And then lastly, there were three three referrals to the Capitol Police Office of Professional Responsibility for records that they could never find. What was the disciplinary complaint against Captain Bird. This is one of those cops where I think most good cops would say, we don't want this guy to be a cop. But the Biden Department of Justice found no wrongdoing, no

wrongdoing whatsoever. Now, Bird's name was initially concealed by the cabal and the Capitol Police for months because of the anger over Ashley's killing. During a really I would call it a softball interview with Lester Holt in August of twenty twenty one, Captain Bird refilled himself for the first time, and of course, during that interview he portrayed himself as the victim, not the perpetrator. And then his name was held from the public for more than seven months because,

according to Bird, he kept getting vile threats. Now lester Holt at least did note the names of officers involved in fatal shootings are often immediately released. Bird said during that interview, they talked about killing me, cutting off my head, very vicious, cruel things. But then, when prompted by lester Holt, Bird claimed that some of the threats were racist in nature. Now I don't know, never mind that he's a black cop that shot and killed a white woman. I thought

it was usually, you know, the other way around. Bird had the audacity tell lester Holt in that interview quote, I believe I show I showed the utmost courage on January sixth, I want to choke when I say that it was later learning response to these Freedom of Information Act requests from Judicial Watch that Bird and his pet had been housed in a VIP suite at Joint Base Andrews and Maryland for more than six months from about August to twenty one through February twenty two. It cost

the taxpayers about thirty thousand dollars. Bird got a thirty six thousand dollars retention bonus in August of twenty one, all because they were just trying to protect him. Wow. Uh, as Reverend Wright might say, the chickens are coming home to roost. Good for Ashley Babbitt's widower, good for Ashley Babbitt's family, and good for Ashley Babbitt. Justice is starting to be served. What's the date again? Oh yeah, it's twenty twenty five. So Michael So meeging with Michael Brown.

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and go follow me on except Michael Brown USA. So the reason I want to spend so much, First of all, I'm spending time on this particular story because I personally and I have no relationship it's the Babbitts with her husband, her family, or anybody else. I do have relationships with law enforcement, and I do obviously have. I mean, I got relationships on Capitol Hill. And I'm just an American citizen. I'm just a plain, old, simple American citizen. And what

happened on January sixth was not insurrection. By God, If that was an insurrection, and we, as conservatives want to take over the government, we need a whole new group of people, because that's not how you take over the government. That wasn't even a good riot. I mean it was, it was a pretty crappy riot. You had to have you had to have these agents provocateur inside the group of people that were storming the Capitol in order to get them to really, like, you know, go on in.

Was what was that I forget the guy's name, the one guy that everybody kept ignoring that they wouldn't prosecute, but they just kept you know, you gotta go in, go in, go in, just egging everybody on. You know, Jimmy Christmas. Can you imagine George Washington trying to get the revolutionaries. Come on, come on, guys, we're going to cross the Delaware. Come on, get in the boat. Come on, boy, get in the boat. Get in the boat. I mean that, uh,

January sixth is such a joke, an insurrection. So anyway, that's the reason I focus on this because the cabal, the left, the Marxists in our midst have focused on this incessantly, and it's all about you know, you think about all of those people that Trump pardoned, that rotted in that nasty, horrific DC jail. I mean, I've seen jails, not all over the world, but I've seen jails in a few places around the world, and it's probably one of the worst I've ever seen in my entire life.

And yet we just let people languish there for charges that in virtually any other jurisdiction for doing exactly the same thing. Trespassing, Oh my god, trespassing. We gotta throw you in jail. With that any bond that would not happen, I don't think in ninety nine percent of the other jurisdictions across the country. But it happens in DC. Why because they got to send a message. It was all about sending a message. And it just pisses me off.

And then Ashley Babbitt and it's something that we watched on television. I mean, you can still I'm sure you can still find it on YouTube unless they've tried to censor it, but you can still watch the entire incident unfold. And it just infuriates me. And you think about I mean, it's twenty twenty five and we're just now getting at least the framework of a settlement in which you and I as taxpayers. This is something I want to make sure you understand that this settlement will be paid for

out of the United States Treasury. Now, the US Capitol Police may or may not have any sort of insurance coverage that may pay for part of these settlement monies, but even if it does, you're still paying the premium

as a taxpayer for that insurance policy. And now that liability is I'm sure they will deny liability in the settlement but now that the insurance company looks and says, well, we had to pay out, and you know, and it could have been if this was a typical lawsuit where somebody had sued a local comp for violating their civil rights and they were suing let's just say the city in County of Denver where I'm sitting, the insurance company would be driving that litigation, not the city and County

of Denver, because the insurance company and the insurance defense lawyers are the ones that have to make the logistical, legal, all of the procedural decisions because they're the ones whore can be paying out. So they know all the details about what happened on January sixth. So once this settlement is a is reached, whether it's thirty thousand dollars, three hundred million dollars, thirty million dollars, three million dollars, whatever

the number is, is immaterial. The insurance company will know what they paid out. And even if there is a clause in the settlement that says, you know, the US Capital Police and the US government and you know, buying through the Department of Justice denies any and all liability, and it's just agreeing to this settlement in order to just you know, save the cost of litigation. The insurance company still knows that there was liability, and so what will

they do. They'll either refuse to renew the policy or they'll renew the policy at a higher premium, which you and I will pay for. Now, that's all assuming that there is an insurance policy. So either way, you and I are paying for this. We're paying for the wrongful actions and the violation of Ashley Babbitt's civil rights because of a cop that should not even have been a cop.

In my opinion, yeah, I firmly believe you. If you know any cops, I want you to go ask convince, if you know of a bad cop on your force, would you rather get rid of that cop or are you willing to let that bad cop stay on your force? Ninety nine point nine percent of the cops will tell you they want that bad cop off the force because it makes their job more difficult. It may it it

he increases the potential for liability. Nobody wants to be a CoP's partner because they know he's a nut job, or that he's a whack of doodle, or he's not very well trained or he's got anger issues, whatever it might be. Cops don't like bad cops, and if a good cop does like a bad cop, then they're probably not a good cop. So yes, this story really gets me wound up. So Biden's Department of Justice refuses to

do anything, covers everything up. So then that the House, the House Oversight Committee or a House administration committee starts to do this investigation and they uncover all of these things, and then youjudicial watch, God bless you, Judicial Watch. On behalf of Ashley Babbitt's husband files the wrongful death lawsuit for Ashley Babbitt's the state, and after all of this litigation, we finally reached the point where, oh, you know, it'skind of like, we didn't need a bunch of new laws

to stop the border invasion. We just needed a new president well justice. We didn't need a judge or anybody else to deliver justice in Ashley Babbitt's case. We just needed an attorney general who saw right from wrong and understood that, hey, this is something that is just ultimately wrong and for which we are liable and for which we need to do just compensation. That's the difference between Democrats and Republicans. Now, Trump has been very vocal has

remained a strong supporter of Babbitt. He actually had used that's her name quite a bit during campaign rallies and even during interviews. According to reports, Trump called Mickey Witthoff, that's Ashley Babbitt's mother on January nine, twenty twenty five, and asked her to tell the January six ers that quote, I love them to keep their chins up, because he

knew what he was going to do. And on January twentieth, the day he was inaugurated, Trump issued a blanket pardon with the exception of thirteen January six ers for the individuals that were charged in that estopole like investigation and prosecution. It was conducted by the Biden Department of Justice. Over on Newsmax, Greg Kelly was interviewing Trump and Trump told Kelly that he would look into both the progress of

the lawsuit and the actions of Michael Bird. In fact, he said during that interview, I'm a big fan of Ashley Babbitt, and Ashley Babbitt was a really good person who was a big Magafan Trump fan, and she was innocently standing there. They even say trying to sort of hold back the crowd, and a man did something to her that was unthinkable when he shot her, and I

think it's a disgrace. So here we are. There'll be another hearing in the matter sept for May twelve, and the judge will get an update, a status update on the settlement agreement. And just to caution you, the terms of that agreement may never be disclosed unless the Department of Justice chooses to do so. Normally, these are kept confidential and rightfully so, except in this case. Wait a minute, it's the Department of Justice, and he was a public employee.

And I assume in thee I assume in the course of the litigation that the Department of Justice recognized that if they really took this thing to trial, and I believe this from the bottom of my heart, that the Department of Justice, that Pam Bondi and her aides looked at this case and they got briefing from the litigators that were trying the case and said, where are we what does it look like? Tell us all the pros and the cons. And I bet the cons far outweighed

the pros. And they looked at it and said, you know what, we take that to a jury, they're going to find liability and it's going to be much more that we have to pay than if we agree to settle the case. And I think that's why the case is being settled, and rightfully so. So once again, I don't care. I don't care what you think about tariffs.

I don't care what you think about the border. I don't care what you think about, you know, Ukraine, or the Iranians, or Hamas or anything else for that matter. For right now, what I want you to think about right now is that the Trump Justice Department is actually delivering justice. It's the weekend with Michael Brown. The text line numbers three three is one zero three three three one zero three. Hey word Mike or Michael, go follow me on except Michael Brown USA. Right back, Hey, It's

the weekend with Michael Brown. Thanks for tuning in. Text line number three three, one zero three, keyword Michael, Michael will go follow me on except Michael Brown USA. The the Canadians had an election this past week, and they may have thought they were voting to kind of poke Trump in the eye, and obviously this punishment for ribbing them about, you know, becoming the fifty first state, uh, you know, or annexing them, or the tariffs or whatever.

But what they ended up doing, now, I find it fascinating because a lot of people would blame Trump for this that if Trump had kept his mouth shut, then Paulavert, who was the uh Conservative running to be prime minister, could have beat this globalist by the name of Mark Carney, who actually won. But he won, he only won a minority.

He's only a minority government. So he's Mark Carney, the Prime minister elect is going to have to go out to all these other radical groups and form a you know, get a coalition together this is the bad thing about a parliamentary system, and get all these you know, other black old groups together with him to form a majority government. But to just show you how what they really did was just stomp on the gas of liberal craziness as they were already going off the edge of the cliff

into moral collapse kind of like we were. Here's an example. A Quebec superior court judge ruled that limiting the legal affiliation of children to one or two parents is unconstitutional. Huh. Now, with globalist social engineering Marxist in charge like that, I guess the constitution just says whatever they want to say at any given moment, and I guess that's what they mean by living constitution. Now, the ruling is not about

step parents. What it applies to is a situation where a family is multiple adults involved in a relationship before the child's conception. In other words, I don't know a bunch of swingers. You know, you know one woman has got you know, five or six lovers. I imagine whatever you want to imagine. I'll lead. I'll leave that up to you. That is, you know, whether it's a thrupple,

a quadruples, whether you know YadA, YadA, YadA whatever. Presumably an entire orgy's worth of copulating degenerates will qualify as that child Gold's parents. Doesn't matter about DNA, they don't have to do a paternity test or anything else, but they'll get all the welfare benefits for having dependent children.

So I guess this is whatever it takes to desecrate and destroy the fundamental unit of civilization, the family, in accordance with the wishes obviously of Karl Marx, because that was one of the objectives of Marx is make the government of family, make the nuclear family irrelevant example number two.

More than fifteen thousand Canadians are euthanized annually. Some are even asking to die because they can't access the proper healthcare in Canada's socialized healthcare system, or they asked to be euthanized out of loneliness as much as they do out of illness. There's one Canadian doctor that is admitted to killing more than four hundred people. Story says. A medical association has even urged doctors to suggest euthanasia to

their qualified patients. Indeed, the push for euthanasia can apparently become quite aggressive at times, including just before cancer surgeries. Oh well, we're gonna do this surgery on YouTube, take out the polyps in your prostate. But you know what if you thought about just dying, you know, because instead of doing this surgery, we could just euthanize you, or, as the paragraph said earlier, out of loneliness. That's really sad.

But then again, I'm not sure that anybody should be surprised by what Canadians discovered just past abortion on the slippery slope of moral decay made advocates the euthanasia group may consider it for the best that Canada is actually euthanizing itself by subjecting itself to what's equivalent to demographic obliteration, literally demographic obliteration. The Canadian government has a website. You can find it at Canada dot ca, a forward slash

immigration refugees. Immigration is a defining feature of Canada. It has contributed and continues to contribute to Canada's economy and society and longstanding meaningful ways. With the exception of indigenous peoples who have called these lands home since time immemorial, everyone who lives in Canada is an immigrant or the descendant of an immigrant. In the same way that immigration is created the Canada that we all enjoy today. Immigration

is central to our future. I wonder if people in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Portugal, France, where they're now beginning to realize, oh, we took this just a step too far and we need to start backing off, if they would agree with what the Canadian government is saying, always find it fascinating. Then we can look across the pond see what's going on over there.

As I say often, you know, just like I'd point out, we can look to California, New York, Illinois and kind of see what's happening, you know, elsewhere in the country. We can also look to Europe, and we can look to Southeast Asia. We can look to the Chinese Communist Party social score system there and see what they're trying to do here. Well, the same is true with immigration. That's why, according to the Canadian government, this is why

they write Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship. Canada launched an Immigration system for Canada's Future in close collaboration with other government departments. We undertook extensive engagement to explore how Canada's immigration policies

and programs can support a shared vision for our country future. Now, don't you find it interesting that they want to kill their own citizens off by euthanizing them, because well, I've been waiting to get the surgery, you know, my cancer surgery for six months, and while I'm waiting, it's now metastasized and I'm dying, So go ahead and kill me anyway, or there's nobody to come and talk to me. I'm living alone. I'm dying of loneliness, so go ahead and

kill me anyway. So, yeah, they'll do that, They'll go euthanize their own citizens, and I guess, in a kind of perverted form of a great replacement theory, we'll kill our citizens and just import people from third world craphole countries so we can look to our north now not just to the east, but to the north, to see the direction that we might be headed. And so weekend with Michael Brown text the word micro Michael to three three wednes zero three, be right back and went