Jan. 8, 2021
Even before they knew the name of the woman killed during Wednesday’s pro-Trump mob at the Capitol, conservative accounts were beseeching followers to say it.
On Thursday morning, the identity of the sole person shot by law enforcement during the violence in D.C. was confirmed: Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran who was killed as she tried to storm through the halls of Congress.
Babbitt’s death was recorded in cellphone videos taken by fellow supporters of President Trump and shared online, quickly going viral. Footage shows her attempting to leap through a shattered window pane when she’s struck by U.S. Capitol Police; she immediately falls back onto the floor. She died hours later.
“It has all the elements of what we warn people about,” said Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “People yelling and screaming, chanting, exerting themselves all of those things provide opportunity for the virus to spread, and this virus takes those opportunities.”
“If you wanted to organize an event to maximize the spread of covid it would be difficult to find one better than the one we witnessed yesterday,” said Jonathan Fielding, a professor at the schools of Public Health and Medicine at UCLA. “You have the drivers of spreading at a time when we are bearing the heaviest burden of this terrible virus and terrible pandemic.”
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Brooksby demonstrated a facility for drawing at an early age. Accompanying her father for business trips, her family travelled constantly throughout the United States. From this itinerant childhood, the American artist developed a real appetite for travelling. At age eight, she was already studying drawing from models at the University of California at Los Angeles. Two years later, she was an apprentice for a Japanese ceramist in West Virginia. She then became interested in photography. Her photographs won her several scholarships, including a senatorial scholarship as well as the most prestigious award from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. At the school of Fine Arts, she discovered a passion for sculpture and earned her degree in 1987, just bef