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According to reports, the Trump government has reported that the family of Ashli Babbitt-one On January 6th Randaler shot by the Capitol Police, who had tried to penetrate into the lobby of the spokesman for the House of Representatives – pay $ 5 million in order to enclose a lawsuit for illegal killing.
Origin of the lawsuit for illegal killing
According to sources that with the Washington Post have spoken,, the Trump government has enclosed the lawsuit for illegal killing of $ 30 million. Last year she submitted the right -wing activist group Judicial Watch on behalf of Babbitt’s husband. The agreement was Early this month achieved. However, the final sum has not yet been known. According to the post is used about a third of the comparison amount for attorney’s fees and compensation for the conservative groups involved, including Judicial Watch.
This step is a clear turnaround compared to the previous attitude of the Ministry of Justice to the shots that it had declared justified after an investigation of Babbitt’s death during the bidue government. In a statement Compared to CBS News the head of Capitol Police, Tom Manger, said that he had told his employees that he was “extremely disappointed”. And “do not agree with the decision of the Ministry of Justiceto enclose this lawsuit ”.
Ministry of Justice waves around-a break with the bidea era
According to a copy of the email that the Post is present, Manger wrote: “In 2021, the Ministry of Justice said that there was no evidence that the law enforcement authorities had violated the law. After a thorough investigation, it was found that it was a justified shot. This agreement sends a deterrent message to the law enforcement officers in our whole country. Especially to those who have a protection task.”
Earlier assessment: no misconduct by the police
Babbitte Death became a focus for the Maga rights when the president and his allies tried to present the violent attack on the Capitol as a patriotic demonstration or-as the former Fox news presenter Tucker Carlson and others-as a case of illegible persecution of peaceful onlookers.
Trump’s martyr cult-Babbitt as heroine of the Maga movement
After his return to office, President laid Donald Trump It is important to reward the rioters of January 6, which he cheered as a martyr of his political movement. In one of his first official acts as President pardon Trump over 1,600 people who had been convicted of crimes in connection with the attack on the Capitol. Including violent criminals. The leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, and the founder of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, who both served long prison terms for rebellious conspiracy released from responsibility.
In one interview With the right -wing television station Newsamax in March, Trump told moderator Greg Kelly that he would “deal” with the lawsuit for illegal killing against the government, which was supposed to come to court next year.
From rioter to the symbolic figure for Trump
“I am a big fan of Ashli Babbitt,” said the president. “Ashli Babbitt was a really good person who was a big Maga fan and Trump fan. And she was innocent. It was even said that she tried to hold back the crowd. And a man did something unimaginable to her when he shot her. I think it will take care of it.”
Donald Trump’s dealings with January 6th
Babbitt and a group of rioters showing videos that were recorded on January 6th who try to crawl into the speaker’s lobby through a broken window. The spokesman’s lobby borders on the plenary hall of the House of Representatives, from which the police tried to evacuate the MPs. Babbitt was by a police officer in the Capitol in the neck shot. Previously, she had reported several requests from the police to withdraw. She died to a nearby hospital after being entered.
Evaluation of fatal use by authorities
An internal examination relieved the officialLieutenant Michael Byrd, of any misconduct. “In this case, the actions of the official may have members [des Kongresses] And employees from serious injuries and the possible death by a large amount of rioters who had gained access to the US capitol and the plenary hall. And where members and employees were only a few steps away, ”the Ministry of Justice wrote in its declaration of 2021 that there would be no indictment against the official involved.