Federal Govt Sued for $30M in ‘Wrongful Death’ of Jan. 6 Protester Ashli Babbitt

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Judicial Watch filed a wrongful death suit for $30 million Thursday against the federal government for the shooting of Jan. 6, 2021 protestor Ashli Babbitt at the Capitol.

The conservative public interest firm filed the lawsuit in federal district court in southern California on behalf of Babbitt’s husband, Aaron Babbitt, and her estate.

A news release from Judicial Watch recounted, “Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt was a 35-year-old resident of San Diego, California, where she owned and operated a successful pool business with her husband Aaron. Ashli traveled alone from San Diego to Washington, DC, to attend the Women for America First (aka Save America) rally on January 6, 2021, at the Ellipse.”

After the rally during which then-President Donald Trump spoke, Babbitt walked to and entered the Capitol on the Senate side “long after others had done so,” according to Judicial Watch.

Ultimately she ended up in the lobby outside the House side.

“After demonstrators filled the hallway outside the lobby, two individuals in the crowded, tightly packed hallway struck and dislodged the glass panels in the lobby doors and the right door sidelight,” the complaint said.

Lt. Michael Byrd, who is a United State Capitol Police commander and was the incident commander for the House on Jan. 6, 2021, “shot Ashli on sight as she raised herself up into the opening of the right door sidelight.

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