by Jack Cashillde
On Memorial Day, I attended the Ashli Babbitt Freedom March in Washington, D.C. From the looks on the faces of the tourists I sensed that few of them knew who Ashli Babbitt was.
Ashli, of course, was the 14-year Air Force veteran shot and killed at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Even on the right, few know the story of Rosanne Boyland, who was also killed as a result of a police action on Jan. 6.
The media have done their best to suppress the stories. So it should not surprise that almost no one knows the fate of Victoria White, the victim of what journalist Julie Kelly calls “the worst incident of police brutality since the civil rights era.”
White is one of the 10 women I profile in my newly released book, “Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6.” Not willing to put up with the airline’s absurd COVID restrictions, White drove from Minnesota to D.C. with her 17-year-old daughter and two friends.
White was among the last people to leave the Ellipse where President Trump had spoken. By the time she reached the Capitol, about a 45-minute walk, protesters had already swarmed the lower west terrace.
There she saw a man pounding away at an exterior window with what appeared to be a crowbar. Upset by his lawlessness, Victoria tried to pull the vandal – still unidentified – down, yelling, “We don’t do that. That’s not us.”
Then two men grabbed Victoria and pulled her off the man with the crowbar. “Get her out of here,” said a guy with a bullhorn.