The bombshells keep getting worse for Michael Byrd, the U.S. Capitol Police officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incursion.
After Just the News reported that Byrd had a lengthy disciplinary sheet and numerous dings on his permanent record during his time with the Capitol Police in November, two separate sources reported in December that Byrd, among other things, was on a so-called “Brady list” or “Lewis list” of officers who could not or would not be called to testify by prosecutors because of their untrustworthiness.
The revelation was first reported by Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations on Dec. 6 in a post on X, in which he said Byrd “had so many misconduct infractions that he was placed on a secret blacklist known as ‘the Lewis list’ maintained by the US Attorney in D.C. Officers on the list cannot testify in trials.”