All posts tagged "Ashli Babbitt"

A Democratic senator intends to block the Pentagon from honoring a slain Jan. 6 rioter with a full military funeral.

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) will introduce a formal resolution to prevent the Department of Defense from offering full military honors to Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by a Capitol police officer as she attempted to crawl through a smashed window into the House Speaker's Lobby as Donald Trump supporters tried to overturn his 2020 election loss, reported CBS News.

"The idea that they're giving this to a person who actively tried to overthrow the government, who was violent in nature, who knowingly was entering a restrictive zone while we were trying to conduct the safe passage of democracy, and the idea that they're just going to give this without a fight, it's just not going to happen," Gallego said....

Critics of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurgency were dumbfounded to learn that the Trump administration had agreed to pay nearly $5 million to the family of slain rioter Ashli Babbitt, as first reported by The Washington Post.

An internal Justice Department investigation in 2021 under President Joe Biden cleared a U.S. Capitol Police officer of any wrongdoing for shooting Babbitt as she tried to breach the barricaded House Speaker’s Lobby, but the Trump administration reversed that ruling. President Donald Trump has framed Babbitt as a "martyr" and "patriot."

"Absolutely disgraceful," attorney Mark S. Zaid posted to X. "This will be an historical black stain - among so many others - on this Administration & those senior officials in Justice Department forever."...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) exclusively told Raw Story he’s no longer under a subpoena in Arizona’s state-level probe of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

“They withdrew my subpoena,” Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) told Raw Story while walking back to his office at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

While Gosar reports being in the clear in the investigation into the state’s 2020 fake elector scheme, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) says he can’t discuss his own subpoena. ...