If ever - EH-VAH - there was a poster boy for all that is wrong and flat-out evil with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, look no further than the miserable sack of Schlitz that is "Capt." Michael Byrd of the United States Capitol Police Force.

The man is a walking cluster and has been for over ten years, as his disciplinary records prove repeatedly. And the only reason we know any of it is because, when Republicans took the House back, they did what they said they were going to do and started digging.

What the House Administration Oversight Committee uncovered about this dismal, trigger-happy, incompetent cretin is so horrifying that it's not at all surprising no one's heard a peep on the networks.

The Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6 riots and then was promoted has a lengthy internal affairs and disciplinary record that includes firearm-related incidents, a sweeping congressional investigation has found. 

The issues in Captain Michael Byrd's background included a failed shotgun qualification test, a failed FBI background check for a weapon's purchase, a 33-day suspension for a lost weapon and referral to Maryland state prosecutors for firing his gun at a stolen car fleeing his neighborhood, according to congressional and police documents obtained by Just the News.

How this pathetic, incompetent creature still had his job with a the litany of sins so egregious any one of them could have gotten him charged, less mind booted, is mind-blowing.

• A 2004 incident where Byrd, who was off duty, fired his weapon at a stolen vehicle as it was fleeing his residential neighborhood;
• A 2015 "conduct unbecoming an officer" complaint filed by a fellow officer after Byrd, again off duty, confronted him while the officer was working at a high school football game in an incident with racial overtones; 
• A 33-day suspension in 2019 after Byrd left his service weapon unattended in a public Capitol Hill bathroom; 
• A failure to pass a routine background check shortly after Jan. 6 when attempting to purchase a shotgun for home protection, after the USCP worked to provide Byrd a department-issued shotgun instead, he failed the training; and
• Three further referrals to the Capitol Police Office of Professional Responsibility for which records are reportedly missing.

Even with the Capitol Police giving him breaks - and a COP can't pass a routine background check, hello?!  Byrd still fell short.

...In September 2021, Byrd attempted to personally purchase a shotgun but failed to pass the background check required by federal law. Byrd subsequently sought USCP’s help in resolving the issue with his background check.26 After learning that Byrd failed his background check, USCP took steps to provide him with a USCPissued shotgun and intended to “lend” him a shotgun even if his background check “did not come through.”27 Ultimately, Byrd failed his shotgun proficiency and was not provided a USCP-issued shotgun. 

He fails over and over and over again.

Yet he kept that uniform, his badge, and was the only officer to fire a shot in all the mayhem of January 6, 2021.

When you read about his quick-trigger-fingered previous record, that's not all that surprising. That he didn't kill more people is.

But this time, as Byrd said in his interview with Lester Holt, he was the hero of the piece.

I KNOW THAT DAY, I SAVED COUNTLESS LIVES

NOW: Join us on @NBCNightlyNews for @LesterHoltNBC's exclusive interview with Lieutenant Michael Byrd — the U.S. Capitol Police officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt while defending the U.S. House chamber during the Capitol attack. pic.twitter.com/mgub2ZcYdQ

— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) August 26, 2021

Frankly, I thought that was the end of it. They canonized the USCP, especially with the performance art appearances for the Jan 6 Committee.

I figured Byrd would slink and skulk off into the sunset and be thankful he got away unscathed, nobody the wiser.

But it turns out not only is he a terribly ordinary man, he's a greedy one.

Which worked out because Capitol Hill Democrats wanted a hero. For instance, capitol police officers who were on-site during the January 6th riot received a $3000 bonus for their service during the melee.

Michael Byrd got $36,000 AND a promotion to captain.

Schweet, huh? And Byrd was still unhappy at 'how he was being treated.'

House Democrats pressured U.S. Capitol Police to provide special financial assistance and even a promotion to the officer who fatally shot unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6 riot, resulting in tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer and charitable assistance not provided to other officers, according to internal emails reviewed by Just the News.

"He is very upset about how he is being treated. He wants us to figure this out and now," a top congressional aide to then-House Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, wrote to Capitol Police in November 2021 pressing for more assistance to Lt. Michael Byrd after he killed Babbitt.

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The records show that pressure also came from then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's staff and from then-Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, causing Capitol Police to find any solution they could to make Byrd and Democrats happy. Despite the extraordinary assistance, Byrd expressed dissatisfaction and continued to insist he deserved more, to the chagrin of Capitol Police officials, according to records assembled by Congress. 

"We play the game as you request and then once we’re in compliance You guys change the rules on us,” Byrd wrote to U.S. Capitol Police General Counsel Thomas DiBiase in November 2021 after being informed he wouldn't be able to immediately access charitable funds from a memorial fund for fallen or wounded officers.

He wanted the money from the 'memorial fund' in addition to the $36K he'd already received, mind you.

Byrd even wrote a nastygram to USCP General Counsel Thomas DiBiase, who was pursuing all available avenues to get Byrd whatever he wanted (including retention bonuses, etc, already paid out), that there was no excuse the cash wasn't rolling in faster.

...But, Byrd was upset that the financial assistance was not coming quick enough and expressed his frustration in an email to DiBiase in November 2021. 

“We’re working on an announcement for the entire department as to how folks injured on 1/6 can apply to the [Memorial Fund] and we will consider all the claims at that point,” DiBiase wrote to Byrd. 

“I don’t think that’s fair to me or my wife you know our situation and what we’ve been dealing with,” Byrd replied. 

“What you proposed could take months,” he added. “Our expectation was that this would be done soon. Now you’re telling me we got to wait for the rest of the department to even file claims, get evaluated and go through the process we have endured for months.” 

“That is blatantly wrong to treat us like this. This was never proposed to us in this manner. Now we’re being grouped in with everyone else. Wow!” Byrd wrote.  

DiBiase appeared startled by Byrd’s dissatisfaction with the USCP’s support. 

“Mike, I’m sorry you are disappointed. I find that surprising since we have already provided you $36,000 in unrestricted retention funds,” DiBiase replied. “You know what the rest of the department is receiving? $3,000 each.”

Paints a pretty picture, doesn't it?

Guess what else he got.

...The email records show Byrd also received significant assistance in the form of housing and security upgrades for his Maryland home paid for by the department.

Oh, yeah - Michael Byrd is a walking martyr to the cause of selfless, faithful public servant.

The entire Just the News report on his grift is bad enough, but I guess word of it had to leak to his fellow officers at long last, and they are fuming.

The police union boss is hot under the collar, and he wants the money back.

The U.S. Capitol Police union leader is calling out the department for providing special financial and other benefits to Capt. Michael Byrd, the officer who fatally shot Jan. 6 protestor Ashli Babbitt, that were not given to fellow officers.

“What a slap in the face to the rank and file officers of the USCP, especially all who were on duty on J6,” U.S. Capitol Police union Chairman Gus Papathanasiou said in a statement Thursday to Just the News. 

Just the News reported Wednesday that House Democratic leadership pressured the Capitol Police to provide financial and other assistance to then-Lt. Michael Byrd after the shooting that included a $37,000 retention bonus, help with $160,000 in private fundraising, housing, and a promotion to captain. 

This assistance far surpassed the support given to other officers who were serving on the Capitol grounds that day. 

Papathanasiou demanded that Byrd be forced to repay the amounts he was given that exceeded bonuses for other officers who served on Jan. 6, 2021, or that the department provide the same benefits to all.

"Not sure what makes Mike Byrd so special that he thinks he needed to be 'taken care of' by the Department. USCP should give every officer a $37k bonus or have Mike Byrd pay it all back," the union boss said.

I think this is just peachy. Couldn't happen to a nicer freeloading loser.

Who murdered someone in cold blood.

The fact that his fellow officers, who suffered far more trauma at the hands of rioters than this revolting slimeball could have even imagined, are calling his greed out?

It's perfect. PERFECT.

And serious kudos to Barry Loudermilk and his committee, who keep unearthing the truth about January 6.

...Loudermilk is asking questions about Byrd and everything else about the Jan. 6 riot that was used so effectively to tarnish Trump and his supporters and that provided the excuse for the Biden administration to weaponize federal law enforcement against them.

The J6 riot was not an insurrection but a protest that escalated into an out-of-control riot because then-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund was denied intelligence about potential threats that day and denied National Guard backup that he was begging for.

In the cold light of hindsight, a new Trump administration will ensure that the narrative of J6 is rewritten to reflect the truth of that tragic day instead of the lies spun by Democratic Speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi’s J6 committee.

Sund is a crucial witness to history. Pelosi (D-Calif.) made him her scapegoat, firing him immediately, but she knew he had begged for the National Guard to assist his vastly outnumbered troops. 

He needed the permission of the Capitol Police Board, and Pelosi and then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) controlled the two sergeants-at-arms who had to give him the OK. McConnell’s guy deferred to Pelosi, and Pelosi’s guy kept saying he had to “run it up the chain to get Pelosi’s approval,” says Sund.

I hope they claw everything back.