Tucker Carlson Claims Insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt Was 'Murdered'

By Heather — January 28, 2023

Just one of the many lowlights of Tucker Carlson's cesspool of a show Friday evening. This isn't the first time Carlson has tried to make insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt into a martyr, and I'm sure it won't be the last.

Tucker Carlson Makes Wild Claim in Deaths of Tyre Nichols, Ashli Babbitt:

Fox News host Tucker Carlson has claimed that deceased Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt was "murdered" by police, while denouncing those who were "weeping" over the fatal police beating of Tyre Nichols. [...]

During the Friday night edition of his opinion show Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson played police video of the Nichols beating and accused Democrats and the media of attempting to "inflame racial hatred" over the death as part of a "highly aggressive propaganda campaign" to gain more "power."

Carlson went on to argue that Babbitt was "far more clearly" the victim of murder than Nichols, despite her death having been ruled a justified use of police force after repeated investigations. The officers involved in the fatal beating of Nichols were charged with multiple felonies including murder on Thursday.

Here's more from Lis Power on what his viewers were treated to last night:

How Fox News is currently covering the release of video in the killing of Tyre Nichols pic.twitter.com/0fr1WDG5Xx

— Lis Power (@LisPower1) January 28, 2023

Tucker: “Maybe the bigger story that everybody seems to be ignoring here is that riots are being planned in cities across the country.”

So, the bigger story than the video that has actually been released is … speculation about hypothetical future riots?

— Lis Power (@LisPower1) January 28, 2023

Fox tonight:

- Blamed police reform
- Blamed diversity training
- Blamed onerous policing rules
- Blamed young black men supervised by a single black woman
- Suggested Nichols was potentially on drugs

And is completely fixated on Antifa.

Absolutely disgraceful coverage.

— Lis Power (@LisPower1) January 28, 2023

And on the "Antifa poster" they keep showing.

Fox has shown this "antifa poster" multiple times in the last few hours. They don't even bother to cite the Daily Mail -- they're just showing it and saying it's being circulated in NYC without identifying a source https://t.co/K6bM6rBL8P

— Madeline Peltz (@peltzmadeline) January 28, 2023

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