https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/trump-administration-to-pay-nearly-5m-to-settle-suit-over-ashli-babbitts-fatal-shooting-in-capitol/

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has agreed to pay just under $5 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit that Ashli Babbitt’s family filed over her shooting by an officer during the U.S. Capitol riot, according to a person with knowledge of the settlement. The person insisted on anonymity to discuss with The Associated Press terms of a settlement that have not been made public.

The settlement would resolve the $30 million federal lawsuit that Babbitt’s estate filed last year in Washington, D.C. On Jan. 6, 2021, a Capitol police officer shot Babbitt as she tried to climb through the broken window of a barricaded door leading to the Speaker’s Lobby.

The officer who shot her was cleared of wrongdoing by the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia, which concluded that he acted in self-defense and in the defense of members of Congress. The Capitol Police also cleared the officer.

Settlement terms haven’t been disclosed in public court filings. On May 2, lawyers for Babbitt’s estate and the Justice Department told a federal judge that they had reached a settlement in principle but were still working out the details before a final agreement could be signed.

Justice Department spokespeople and two attorneys for the Babbitt family didn’t immediately respond to messages seeking comment.

Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran from San Diego, was unarmed when she was shot by the officer. The lawsuit alleges that the plainclothes officer failed to de-escalate the situation and did not give her any warnings or commands before opening fire.

The suit also accused the Capitol Police of negligence, claiming the department should have known that the officer was “prone to behave in a dangerous or otherwise incompetent manner.”

“Ashli posed no threat to the safety of anyone,” the lawsuit said.

The officer said in a televised interview that he fired as a “last resort.” He said he didn’t know if the person jumping through the window was armed when he pulled the trigger.

Thousands of people stormed the Capitol after President Donald Trump spoke to a crowd of supporters at his Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally near the White House. More than 100 police officers were injured in the attack.

In January, on his first day back in the White House, Trump pardoned, commuted the prison sentences or ordered the dismissal of charges for all of the more than 1,500 people charged with crimes in the riot.

>>1407195 (OP)
You mean to tell me it's possible to get justice for police brutality without rioting?

The officer should've mag dumped into the crowd of terrorists. That one maga bitch wasn't enough.

>>1407196
>“Ashli posed no threat to the safety of anyone,” the lawsuit said.
Who is supposed to believe this? Why were the Republican Senators fleeing in terror if there wasn't a threat?

>>1407207
Frustrating to hear this from your side now, isn't it?

>>1407210
What?

>>1407198
No seriously how the fuck was that moron the only one shot that day? Did they just not want to get blood all over the Capitol's carpets?

>>1407213
Here's an even better question: why wasn't anyone shot on May 30th? Hell only one person was arrested for "destruction of government property" - i.e. burning a building down. If the situation was so bad that Trump and his family had to be put into a bunker for their safety - a fact he was mocked for afterwards by Biden, politicians, media, comedians, etc. - why did nobody get shot?
>in before durr whataboutism
No, it's only okay when your side does it.

>>1407216
What "side" were the Capitol Police on?

>>1407218
Probably the same "side" the Secret Service was on when you people were throwing molotovs at them.

>>1407219
oh, she's making up lies again

>>1407221
Bot says what?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/secret-service-took-trump-to-underground-bunker-amid-george-floyd-protests

>A senior official in the direct chain of command for defending Washington D.C. told Fox News of the injuries to Secret Service agents, some of whom were hurt by rioters throwing bottles and Molotov cocktails in Lafayette Park, just across from the presidential residence.

>>1407224
>foxnews.com
kek

>>1407225
Shill understands that Fox News isn't news, they're compulsive liars who admitted to and paid hundreds of millions of dollars because they deliberately lie to rile up gullible morons like our resident retarded shill.
The propaganda is real to them though

>>1407225
post the snopes page debunking it

>>1407226
is CNN reliable? keep in mind when you answer that they are deeply embedded into political institutions having many incestuous business relationships with politicians or politically influential NGOs.

>>1407228
Are you going to ask whats reliable one by one?
I can't think of a news organization other than Fox that recently paid out hundreds of millions of dollars because they were caught lying, and their founder admitted to deliberately lying in stories to rile up gullible retards like you.
Feel free to list other news orgs that have done that

>>1407230
NTA, Nick Sandmann?

>>1407197
only if you have female privilege.
I know I'm supposed to say White privilege but when you look at the stats it's clear that her being a woman is more relevant than her being White

>>1407264
you can stop capitalizing the word white now esl shill

>>1407231
NTA either but he could have gotten $1m for all we know

>>1407265
ok Boomer

>>1407227
They can't produce snopes articles at the rate your handlers lie, dipshit.