Ashli Babbitt’s $30M Wrongful Death Case Moves Ahead — Here’s The 411
Good news for anyone wanting her family to get their day in court
Judicial Watch has been spearheading the case on the family’s behalf.
The DOJ now has a thirty-day window to supply the court with its response to the civil case initiated by Babbitt’s family as they are bringing a wrongful death suit against the government.
The Justice Department must respond to the lawsuit’s claims for wrongful death, assault and battery, negligence and a claim for “survival action” under federal law. (As a result of the court’s order, the lawsuit will proceed on these key counts, as the court considers the Biden administration’s request to dismiss certain other claims.)
The Judicial Watch complaint recounts:
The shooting occurred at the east entrance to the Speaker’s Lobby. 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. Lt. Byrd, who is a United States Capitol Police commander and was the incident commander for the House on January 6, 2021, shot Ashli on sight as she raised herself up into the opening of the right door sidelight. 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.
The lawsuit points out that, based on prior incidents involving Lt. Byrd, the Capitol Police, Capitol Police Board, and ultimately Congress, as Lt. Byrd’s employer, “knew or should have known that Lt. Byrd was prone to behave in a dangerous or otherwise incompetent manner.”
The next hearing is set for September 20. — Judicial Watch
And did you know that Lt. Byrd was living (at taxpayer expense) at Joint Base Andrews… after killing an unarmed Air Force Veteran stone-cold dead in The People’s House?
That’s adding insult to injury.
We wish her family every success in vindicating Ashlii’s name and holding those responsible to account… to the extent that a corrupt town like DC can even accomplish that.
Especially after the reports we’ve heard about Ashlii having actively helped to deescalate violence and criminality earlier that day.
It’s weird how the ‘killer cops are bad’ activists suddenly fell silent when it was an unarmed white woman in a Trump hat that was shot dead, isn’t it?
Almost like it always was — at it’s heart — more of a cynical political movement than an issues movement. Weird, that.
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