Jack Cashill kicked off his May 29 WorldNetDaily column this way:
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.
Actually, she was not. As we pointed out the last time he tried to whitewash Boyland — when he falsely claimed authorities were blaming her death on a methamphetamine overdose — it’s entirely likely she took a larger-than-prescribed dose of Adderall, an amphetamine, which on top of other health issues such as obesity and diabetes contributed to her death. (At least he finally figured out how to spell her name correctly.) Then it was on to whitewashing another riot participant, in the service of promoting his whitewash-laden book:
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.
White’s adventure was just beginning. While protesters were freely walking into the Capitol through multiple open entrances, the police were guarding the lower west terrace tunnel like it was the Alamo.
As White tells the story, she was “pushed into the tunnel” by the crowd and “sucked in” by the momentum. The video leaves little dispute about what happened next.
As documented in White’s lawsuit against two Metropolitan PD officers, Jason Bagshaw, then a lieutenant, and Neil McAllister, Victoria endured what was arguably the most severe police beating of a female ever captured on video.
This oddly gratuitous assault took place some 90 minutes after the last Congress member left the Capitol.
Not so much. Here’s a more accurate version of events from the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C.:
White was seen in open-source video arguing with rioters who were attempting to break the glass doors of an entrance. White then pushed her way toward the tunnel entrance, where a squad of Metropolitan Police (MPD) officers were preventing rioters from entering the building. As the mob chanted, “pull the cops out!” White raised her fist and cheered as the rioters forced a large flagpole into the entryway where the MPD officers stood guard.
White pushed her way closer to the entrance, where she helped to hoist up another rioter who proceeded to assault officers. White was seen pointing and cheering as the rioter swung from the top of the entryway and kicked MPD officers.
At about 4:05 p.m., White made her way to the lower West Terrace entrance. After losing her red cap and black coat in the chaos, she grabbed one of the MPD officers standing on a ledge. Officers pushed White back with their riot shields and fended her off with a baton. White then grabbed one of the shields and blocked the baton with her hand. Minutes later, officers apprehended White, and she was escorted out of the Capitol building.
Cashill also failed to mention that White violated the terms of her pre-sentencing release by traveling to Washington to attend congressional hearings and post for pictures that she posted on social, even though she was forbidden by those terms from visiting the city except for scheduled court hearings. The judge claimed White was “cavalier” with the rules and was not forthcoming about her intentions during her visit, then added new conditions to her release, banning her from the capitol building unless she receives prior approval. Cashill also somehow forgot to mention that White pleaded guilty to interfering with law enforcement officers during a civil disorder, and was sentenced to 10 days in prison, 90 days of home detention. and 24 months on supervised release.
Still, Cashill remained in full whitewash mode:
Three months later, the FBI and local police came to White’s home in force at the crack of dawn. “They surrounded my block, weapons drawn. My daughters were freaking out.”
The agents handcuffed her outside her home and took her to the federal facility in Minneapolis for processing. “My name,” said Victoria, “was forever tarnished.”
Of the eight living women I profile, six have been imprisoned, two await sentencing. White was one of the six.
“God allowed me to live for a reason,” said White, “and I believe it’s to speak the truth and to tell people what happened that day and what’s continuing to happen to American citizens.”
Cashill didn’t mention that White was “imprisoned” for only 10 days and, even then, only on weekends. And neither he nor White have posited that the reason “God allowed me to live” was to serve as an example to those to attempt to overthrow the government in the service of an amoral man who refuses to mentally accept that he lost an election — and who continually refuse to accept responsibility for their actions, which are actually what “forever tarnished” her name.