Tucker Carlson: “Ashley Babbitt was shot in the chest for doing nothing. An…”

“And that is really difficult to maintain. And you see this even in Washington. You saw this in fact, 5 years ago yesterday when Ashley Babbitt was shot in the chest for doing nothing. An unarmed woman, an Air Force veteran, murdered by James Byrd in the Capitol building. And nothing happened. And the reason nothing happened, the reason the guy who shot Ashley Babbitt, who'd already been disciplined for leading a loaded handgun in the men's room, so he had a documented record of recklessness.” (27:31–27:40)

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