Ashli Babbitt’s half-brother accused of racist rant at utility worker

Ashli Babbitt (proper) and Roger Witthoeft (left) in 2015.
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The half-brother of Ashli Babbitt, the lady who was fatally shot throughout the Jan. 6 riot on the US Capitol, has been accused of attacking and hurling racial slurs at a utility employee in California.

Roger Stefan Witthoeft Jr., 33, faces misdemeanor expenses of battery with a hate crime enhancement and violating the sufferer’s constitutional rights by risk of power, the San Diego Union Tribune reported.

He pleaded not responsible at his March 1 arraignment in San Diego Superior Court docket.

Witthoeft allegedly shoved and tried to strike a San Diego Fuel & Electrical visitors controller in September whereas shouting “a lot of racial slurs” on the Latino man — telling him to “Return to your nation you f—- immigrant,” in keeping with the Metropolis Legal professional’s Workplace.

The suspect is accused of asking the sufferer, whom he allegedly challenged to a struggle, “Why don’t you speak in English you f— immigrant?”

Roger Stefan Witthoef faces misdemeanor expenses of battery with a hate crime enhancement and violating the sufferer’s constitutional rights by risk of power.

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Capitol police guarding the Senate door throughout the January 6, 2021 riot.

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U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd helps to direct the evacuation because the Home chamber comes below assault by a violent mob throughout the congressional certification of the presidential election.

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He additionally allegedly shoved the person, swung at him and knocked off his arduous hat, in keeping with the report.

Witthoeft is the brother of Babbitt, 36, the Air Power veteran was shot by a cop as she tried to enter the Speaker’s Foyer on Jan. 6, 2021, as a mob of Trump supporters had been storming the Capitol in an effort to disrupt the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election.

Ashli Babbitt’s brother is accused of attacking and hurling racial slurs at a utility employee in California.

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US Capitol Police officer Lt. Michael Byrd was cleared of any wrongdoing in Babbitt’s loss of life in an inside use-of-force probe.

The incident involving her brother happened Sept. 14 when an SDG&E restore crew had arrange a roadblock that he occurred upon, prosecutors informed the newspaper.

When the visitors controller informed Witthoeft concerning the street closure, he bought out of his car and “verbally and bodily confronted the employee,” prosecutors stated.

Witthoeft has informed The New York Instances that he and different relations labored with Babbitt at Fowler’s Pool Service & Provide Inc., which she and her husband, Aaron, owned.

Aaron informed FOX 5 on Wednesday that Witthoeft is her half-brother and that the 2 had been estranged for a number of months previous to her loss of life.