Trump Admin to Pay $5 Million to Ashli Babbitt's Family
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The Trump administration has agreed to pay millions to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Ashli Babbitt.
Babbitt, 35, was fatally shot by police during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. According to The Washington Post, her family will receive roughly one-sixth of the $30 million sought in the lawsuit.
During a May 2 hearing in US District Court in Washington, attorneys for the Department of Justice and lawyers for Babbitt's estate informed Judge Ana Reyes that a settlement had been reached.
Two people said to be familiar with the settlement told the Post that the Justice Department has agreed to pay just under $5 million to Babbitt's family.
The Air Force veteran and Trump supporter was shot as she attempted to climb through a broken window leading into the Speaker's Lobby during the riot.
The officer, Michael Byrd, was later cleared of wrongdoing by federal investigators.
Last year, Babbitt's family filed suit against the federal government, alleging excessive force and seeking damages over her death. The suit was set to go to trial next summer.
The family claimed in the suit that Babbitt was not a threat:
Lt. Byrd later confessed that he shot Ashli before seeing her hands or assessing her intentions or even identifying her as female. Ashli was unarmed. Her hands were up in the air, empty, and in plain view of Lt. Byrd and other officers in the lobby. Ashli posed no threat to the safety of anyone. Not one member of Congress was in the lobby, which was guarded by multiple armed police officers.
President Donald Trump has referred to her death as a "murder" and called for justice.
In a March interview, Trump said he was unaware of the lawsuit but described Babbitt as "a really good person" and a "big MAGA fan."
Last February, Trump blamed Babbitt's death on Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
"I think it was an insurrection caused by Nancy Pelosi," Trump told reporters. "This was an insurrection, if it was an insurrection, which, there were no guns, there were no anything, except for the fact that they shot Ashli Babbitt."
Disgraceful is too kind a word for this.
Ashley Babbitt violently entered an area that had a locked door and furniture barricading it. The ridiculous paragraph above implies she was surrendering to the cop when he shot her. The cop could reasonably assume she had violent intent, and he was protecting the House of Representatives from that violence.
8647.
You were saying?
If she was breaking into my house I would have shot her too. She got what she deserved.
Don't bring fact into the lefts hissy fit. They don't like that shit.
A supporter of Chicago Democratic Party complaining about the government misusing taxpayer dollars to fund politically advantageous legal settlements? Brave card to play.
The cop was not a mind reader. An insurrectionist had just violently entered an area that was locked and barricaded. If he just let her walk in she could have potentially got his gun and shot him. At the least she would have let the rest of the mob follow her in and who knows what would then have happened. When the door was locked and barricaded and she bashed it in anyway and tried to enter she got what she was asking for.
Oh, btw, she was a traitor.
I definitely recall you defending Officer Wilson shooting the massive man who'd just tried to take his gun and was charging him when he shot him right? I couldn't be misremembering that could I?
Don't forget the $1.5 million the family got
Plus the DOJ attacked the local police department. Eric POS Holders finest hour.
She was a good person because she was a MAGA fan. He didn't know anything else about her.
And difference does it make that she was female? Criminals come in all sexes.
And she's a disgrace to the USAF uniform
Bingo...
What was her intent, foul language, bad thoughts, what else was a 120lb female going to do? Byrd should have been tried for murder.
What does that have to do with ANYTHING at all?
Do you have a sign on the side of your house that says, "If you weigh less than 120 pounds, I won't shoot you if you try to break in!!"?
Really? LOL
and that my friends is why Democrats don't care if men play in women's sports.
If that is the logic they could have shot everyone that was trespassing. Nothing like a mass murder of Trump supporters to brighten the day?
Well if the left wants to go with that criteria, Harvard and a few other IVY league schools are going to need to replace lot of students.
cool, that should work out in the future. storm the capitol, get pardoned. get shot doing it, your survivors win the lottery ...
Why not, the worthless democrat base has been doing it for years, Act the fool, refuse to follow the polices instruction attack the officer, family wins lottery for someone who is a simple piece of shit thug.
but, but, but, what about ...
What does that mean?
Oh, you mean like trying to break into the capital and kill the officer that shot her? (Before you cry, prove that wasn't her intent)
LMAO you need to prove that it was. That is how it works 'round these parts.
You know that isn't going to be proven. It's founded in their imagination.
Sure can
Exemplified by the drug dealer and thief in Minneapolis that after he died from a drug overdose complicated by a choke hold, you too can get a day named for you, a statue raised in your honor and millions paid in the ghetto lottery to your family.
... uh, yeah, that's exactly the same thing in the magaverse ...
Glad you agree....
glad you think so ...
The very people defending this murderous cop are the same people who screeched for days about the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict. Fkng hypocrites.
but, but, but, what about ...
Thanks for letting everybody know you don't get it.
thanks for admitting comprehension issues ...