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Fox News host Laura Ingraham interviewed a man who described the situation leading up to the fatal shooting of a woman in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. The man, identified as Tayler Hansen,
claimed he had spoken to 35-year-old Ashli Babbitt, whose family said she was a San Diego resident and Air Force veteran, just 10 minutes before the shooting in a hallway of the building.
RECOMMENDED STORIES He rejected the notion that Hansen posed a threat to others. “She was literally there just to support her president. She wasn’t being violent. She wasn’t breaking
anything. She just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Hansen said. Earlier in the day there were pro-Trump protests in Washington, D.C., before Congress met to count the
Electoral College results and certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Around the time lawmakers in the House and Senate began the process, people gathered, at Trump’s behest, outside
the U.S. Capitol. Some broke through law enforcement and got into the building. Babbitt was shot and killed by law enforcement amid the violence that prompted lawmakers to evacuate and
hunker down. Hours later, with the U.S. Capitol grounds secured, the delayed certification process resumed. Ingraham mentioned there were “hard to make out” images or videos circulating the
internet which appeared to show Babbitt “at the door” in the moments leading up to the shooting. One video showed a woman starting to climb through a broken window before being shot and
falling back and onto the floor. Hansen said that a man, who had “started going berserk and punching,” was breaking windows on a barricaded door before law enforcement opened fire. Hansen
said he heard the shot ring out and saw Babbitt hit the ground. “By no means was she kicking any doors in or even vandalizing anything,” Hansen said of Babbitt, adding later that he stopped
filming and joined others in trying to stop the bleeding, but “there was nothing we could do.” Hansen, who said he is a supporter of law enforcement whose “job” is to “infiltrate these
people” in places such as Portland, Oregon, suggested the other man was part of antifa based on his behavior. Babbitt was brought to a nearby hospital after the shooting and later was
declared dead. Her ex-husband said she was a strong supporter of President Trump and “had a personality that you either loved or hated,” according to NPR. D.C. police later announced that
three other people died from separate medical emergencies around the Capitol area. Police also said Wednesday evening they made 52 arrests.