Gosar says Babbitt was ‘executed’ during Capitol riot, calling rioters ‘peaceful patriots’

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GOP Rep. Paul Gosar claimed the people who participated in the Capitol riot were “peaceful” and that the rioter who was shot and killed during the chaos was “executed.”

The Trump ally from Arizona made the remarks during Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing with former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller, former acting Attorney General Jeffery Rosen, and Robert J. Contee III, the chief of the metropolitan police department, who were there to testify about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

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