Ashli Babbitt’s family might finally be seeing some justice after a long wait. The Trump administration has reportedly reached a preliminary settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by her family over her shooting at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Although the settlement terms are still under wraps and the final agreement hasn’t been signed yet, this development marks a significant step forward.
The lawyers representing Babbitt’s estate and the Justice Department informed a judge in Washington’s federal court about the settlement progress. Initially, Babbitt’s estate had filed a $30 million lawsuit in January 2024, seeking justice for the shooting of the U.S. Air Force veteran. The case has raised numerous questions about the circumstances surrounding Babbitt’s death.
Before Lt. Michael Byrd shot Babbitt at the Speaker’s Lobby window, she was standing with three officers without posing any threat to them. It was others who broke the glass in the doors leading to the Speaker’s Lobby. The shooting seemed unnecessary since armed officers arrived immediately after, suggesting the situation could have been controlled without lethal force.
Lt. Byrd, in a televised interview, claimed he fired as a “last resort” and was unsure if Babbitt was armed. Despite his claims, the Department of Justice and the Capitol Police found no wrongdoing on his part. The lawsuit argues that the officer, who wasn’t in uniform, failed to de-escalate the situation and didn’t provide any warnings before opening fire.
The lawsuit further alleges negligence on the Capitol Police’s part, stating they should have known the officer might behave dangerously or incompetently. It insists that “Ashli posed no threat to the safety of anyone,” highlighting the tragedy of the event. The settlement’s progress is a positive step, albeit one that should have happened sooner.
It’s a relief that the Trump administration is moving to settle with Babbitt’s family, a gesture that is long overdue. The Biden administration should have acted earlier, but unfortunately, they didn’t. While this settlement can’t bring her back, it offers her family a measure of justice, at least on a civil level.
Robert Sticht, a lawyer for Babbitt’s family, expects the agreement to be signed within the coming weeks, though he has not disclosed any specifics about the settlement. The mainstream media often sidesteps these issues, but it’s crucial to keep exposing the truth. Joining trusted news sources can help cut through the noise and deception.
The events of January 6, 2021, left many unanswered questions and highlighted the need for accountability. Babbitt’s shooting has become a focal point of that discussion, emphasizing the importance of transparency and justice. Her family’s pursuit of justice underscores the broader need for accountability in such tragic situations.
As this settlement moves forward, it serves as a reminder of the lingering impact of that day and the lives forever changed. The legal proceedings may conclude, but the conversation about accountability and justice will continue. It is vital to remember the individuals affected by these events and the ongoing quest for truth.
The settlement’s progression is a testament to the persistence of Babbitt’s family in seeking justice. It also highlights the complexities involved in addressing the aftermath of January 6. The legal journey reflects the broader societal challenges in reconciling these events with a sense of justice and accountability.
While this settlement offers a form of justice, it also prompts reflection on the events of January 6 and the responses that followed. It’s a reminder of the importance of upholding the rule of law and ensuring that justice is served. The pursuit of truth and accountability remains essential in the wake of such significant events.
The legal proceedings surrounding Babbitt’s death have garnered significant attention, underscoring the complexities of the situation. As the settlement nears finalization, it’s crucial to remain focused on the broader implications and the ongoing quest for justice. The story of Ashli Babbitt is a reminder of the human impact behind these legal battles.
The unfolding settlement is a pivotal moment in the ongoing narrative of January 6, 2021. It reflects the enduring impact of that day and the need for justice for those involved. The legal proceedings serve as a reminder of the importance of accountability and transparency in such significant events.
As the settlement moves closer to completion, it’s a moment to reflect on the broader implications of Ashli Babbitt’s death. The quest for justice doesn’t end with a settlement; it continues in the ongoing dialogue about accountability and transparency. The pursuit of truth remains paramount in navigating the complexities of these events.
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Until the SOB that shot her is in jail, there is no justice. The Democrats that made this injustice possible (Pelosi) should also be charged.
I was thinking the exact same thing. If I were part of Ashli’s family, the money would be secondary to putting Michael Byrd in prison for Ashli’s murder. That is the most important part of justice. I hope to God that Bondi’s DOJ is investigating that piece of trash. It was bad enough that Byrd was not charged, but when he was promoted, that was the ultimate slap in the face.
The comments are spot on and I pray too that justice is finally served and all appropriate charges are filed against Byrd and all who were responsible that day for such a miscarriage of justice!
In Jesus’ name I pray!
Amen.
While this article clearly focuses on achieving some level for justice and compensation for the wrongful death of an unarmed Ashli Babbitt by an over-reacting Capitol police officer, Michael Byrd, it doesn’t even mention all of the weaponization and prosecutorial lawfare that was prosecuted against the 1500 protesters on J6 who wanted to delay the official certification of a vote that was clearly immersed in official misconduct by election officials, fraud, abuse and manipulation of voting results. If you look at the voting patterns and the vote numbers reported in elections before 2020…and in 2024, statistical analysts and common sense “scream” that there is no way in hell that Joe Biden received 81+ million legally cast and counted votes in 2020.
And while President Trump has pardoned some 1500 non-violent J6 protesters, many of whom didn’t even enter the Capitol, but were sentenced to long jail terms anyway.
Radman, all true and just before the election on a mainstream media news cast Soros showed the banana peel in his own mouth when he said Trump isn’t going to win we’re making sure of that!
Totally rigged election and Soros talking his King Farouk bit like that when he should have been locked away decades ago goes to show us just how corrupt the American System has been and still is! When I see scum like him, Pelosi, Biden, Schumer, Obama and so many others getting locked up then I will say justice and integrity have finally arrived; until then, trust no one!
I have long said that carved in stone screed above the SCOTUS lair NEEDS to be changed to read “NO EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW,” as there has been NONE for decades in the ‘Banana Republic’ of America!
Saw the video of Byrd slinking along the corridor wall around the corner from where Ashley was being helped up over the door and she was definitely not armed or an eminent threat to anyone but that cowardly evil bastard with his previous record of being trigger happy and shooting into a car full of teens in a residential neighborhood didn’t even call out to Stop or give any warning and just fired point blank at Ashley “to KILL her!” That dirty rotten bastard belongs in Gitmo for a treasonous act of MURDER!!!
Try and convict him to life in prison NOW!
Demoncraps, Blacks, Muslims and Leftist lunatics get hugs for doing such violence and evil upon a White Man or Woman!
That ‘so-called’ investigation of the Ashli Babbitt shooting saying it was “a good shoot” has to be the joke of the century! They lauded this ‘incompetent’ gunny a hero! I have posted the following on several sites:
“….an officer may use deadly force only when the officer reasonably believes that action is in the defense of human life, including the officer’s own life, or the defense of any person in immediate danger of serious physical injury.” That was obviously ignored in the following investigation! This officer, in what way, thought his life or the life of another was in danger from some 130 lb UNARMED woman? Below is what anyone schooled in the use of ‘lethal’ weapons would tell you after viewing just the side view of that shooting:
Everyone, but especially anyone “investigating” this shooting, should view the video Laura Ingraham presented on her program. It clearly showed the shot that killed the AF Vet. The shooter is a black man, recently reported to be the same Lt. on the Capitol Police unit that left his loaded, untended, firearm in a Capitol restroom. The following is ‘my theory,’ and if true a possible reason little has been forthcoming about this “shooting.” My thinking is based on being involved with firearms my entire life, including a 20-year career in the Marine Corps. In that video, you initially see the ‘shooter’ pointing his handgun at people to his right who are closest to him. He then swings his arms/aims to the left towards his center and just as he stops that movement the shot is made striking the unarmed Vet (in the neck, not “center mass” as instructed!). There is much to know about what is going on in this sequence. When you play the video in slo-mo, you can see the shooter, even in his initial aim, before starting to change the point of aim, has his trigger finger fully engaged with the BOOM actuator (trigger). This single fact is a violation of proper handgun operation/safety! Unless you are immediately prepared to destroy what you are aiming at, intending to shoot, that finger remains OUTSIDE the trigger guard resting on the slide NOT even the guard. WHY? Because when ON that trigger you are +-5 lbs of pressure from releasing something you CANNOT CALL BACK! The human body pumps out a HEAVY dose of adrenaline when perceiving a possible Life or Death encounter, even folk having experienced such still have to deal with that. Two things are guaranteed, especially for a first-timer, you get tunnel vision and lose fine motor skills (amount of ‘felt’ pressure being applied to a firearm’s trigger), that adrenaline rush that is married to the fight or flight response. I contend that this gunny did NOT INTEND to shoot the woman, and probably was not even aware that he had released the shot. This Lt. was so amped up that swinging that handgun and stopping it was all the extra, unfelt, pressure needed to launch that un-recallable shot! BTW, this is by far NOT the first time an ‘unintentional discharge’ under duress has occurred. To illustrate: Three police officers had a suspect captured, two officers had him face down on the concrete, hands behind his back, applying the cuffs. The third officer standing about 8-10 feet away was pointing her weapon in the direction of the three, her two pals, and the perp, who was now all but in handcuffs. The real “gunnies” of us watching the video were waiting for the BOOM! WHY? That officer still pointing her weapon toward the action of the three had ‘her BOOM actuator’ fully on that bullet launcher. She also appeared to be still amped up over whatever went down in getting this perp down, and the BOOM came – by God’s Grace, nobody got dead or even shot, the bullet hit the concrete just slightly in front of and to the right of those three still on the ground! Hopefully, that officer only rides a desk unarmed!! Hated phrase, the bottom line for this shooter is, at what point did he think ‘his life was in immediate mortal danger’ that would have induced him to “intentionally” discharge that weapon? That is what every CCW licensee would HAVE TO articulate to a judge if, God forbid, we have to shoot anyone!! Further info has been revealed about this Officer. He is reported to have several misconduct charges on his record. There is at least one photo of the Officer carrying a load of paperwork(?) in his left arm with his firearm drawn and held in his right hand while walking inside that chamber, before he shoots the AF Vet, – the view indicates his finger is already engaged with the trigger, and his fellow officers in ‘front’ of him are unknowingly in real danger! Ashli Babbitt’s life may have been spared at the expense of a Capitol Police officer’s life if this incompetent officer had stumbled or fallen, or just INADVERTENTLY mashed that trigger. All indicators say that this “officer” is still on the job, ARMED, ‘promoted even,’ but at least should ONLY be riding a desk UNARMED, and at best facing the same charges the female officer faced, who mistook her firearm for her taser which resulted in the killing of a resisting perp, she was convicted and jailed! As far as ‘believing’ this was any kind of useful investigation of a ‘wrongful killing’ of an unarmed individual, as John Stossel would say, “GIVE ME A BREAK!”
This Byrd made the claim that he ‘intentionally’ shot Ashli. What? He would want to admit to ‘UNINTENTIONALLY’ discharging his weapon resulting in killing an innocent person? PLEASE, he knows his record and reputation for ‘carelessness’ and STUPIDITY!
Firewagon, excellent explanation and review of the facts we have to go on which I fully agree!
I can only add that to me this supposed CPO was more than incompetent but was a walking menace; as they say an accident waiting to happen! It sickens me that Ashley a AF Veteran had to take the brunt of this totally mismanaged Law Enforcement and Stupidity by losing her life!
Regardless of how we can slice and dice this down to the last detail I still believe there must be criminal liability with accountability and in the least administrative culpability in this negligence that Byrd’s superiors allowed to unfold knowing full well of his ineptitude which then led to perhaps a case of involuntary manslaughter which can in some states bring a 15 year prison sentence.
My gut tells me that somebody is criminally responsible for the death of Ashley and it wasn’t a pure accident, it was a killing with reckless intent or dereliction involved at its core!
I did see the video and also the one of the female LEO that thought she was grabbing her Taser and instead pumped led into the Perp! Same in the Babbitt case it was a crime to kill Ashley the way it went down! Especially troubling is the fact that Byrd was a fair distance away and had some options that could have been good safety measures of reaction to the situation as it was unfolding so to me he has no leg to stand on or wiggle room to get away with murdering her! The female LEO was in a much more dramatic and eminent threat scenario and she didn’t get any slap on the wrist but is in prison! I do think the politics of Biden and Pelosi were deeply involved with the legal culpability outcome in the Byrd case!
Roger that! My main reason for posting my lengthy screed was to work off a very large anger at how one of our finest, an Air Force Veteran, was the ONLY person gunned down out of the 10s of thousands ‘trespassing’ in that capital. There were several ‘protesters’ shot, but only with ‘rubber bullets,’ and thankfully, didn’t hit anyone in the eyes.
I also recall all of those BLM/ANTIFA riots that torched entire cities, and no police shot and killed anyone. Only the ‘innocent,’ non rioters, were killed! “….she didn’t get any slap on the wrist….” Absootootly, and certainly was not gifted thousands of dollars and “promoted!” “….it wasn’t a pure accident….” Another true statement. When some firearm goes off, intentionally, or by an ‘unintentional discharge,’ it is never an accident. As is said far too often in America today, “You Just Can’t Make This Schiff Up.”
Yes Sir, and mission accomplished as you did work off that anger, as well quelled mine in the process of your fine commentary being displayed here! I cringe with some righteous indignation and I’m even so saddened to realize what you stated is all true, and Ashley was an honorable 3 tour Veteran who had beautiful children at home with her fine husband there caring for them! I can’t imagine what I would be going through if I were in his place with such a heartbreaking burden to carry for the rest of his life on earth; especially when it really wasn’t necessary or shouldn’t have happened in such a way here in America!
And yes even the intentional shooting directly at the protestors was an egregious crime and break in the public trust by the government in my mind, because as you stated even though with rubber bullets it was so miraculous that nobody took one in the eye; that whole action was immoral to do such a thing to mainly peaceful citizens assembled with a legitimate grievance before our government which the U.S. Constitution provides for!
But you actually took the words right out of my mouth as I read your comment, even before I got to this part I was thinking it; how all of the BLM/ANTIFA derelict anti-American thugs and criminals got to descend upon cities like crazy banshees across the nation to burn, loot and maim or even rape and kill innocent Citizens over that hardened poor excuse for a human being career criminal Floyd; but we can be certain nefarious minds in elite places fanned the flames of that whole affair! And yes it was not any accident, as you say “the weapon didn’t just go off by itself;” as even Alec Baldwin tried to say that pistol did on the movie set of RUST, blowing away the life of the DP Halyna Hutchins! So true, you can’t make this Schiff up!
God bless you and yours!
Thank you!