"WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government is offering military funeral honors for Ashli Babbitt, the rioter who was killed at 35 by an officer in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Babbitt was a U.S. Air Force veteran from California who was shot dead wearing a Trump campaign flag wrapped around her shoulders while attempting to climb through the broken window of a barricaded door leading to the Speaker's Lobby inside the Capitol."
"Offering military honors to one of the Capitol rioters is part of President Donald Trump's attempts to rewrite that chapter after the 2020 election as a patriotic stand, given he still denies he lost that election. Babbitt has gained martyr status among Republicans, and the Trump administration agreed to pay just under $5 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit that her family filed over her shooting."
The U.S. government offered military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old U.S. Air Force veteran who was shot inside the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack. Babbitt was shot while attempting to climb through a broken window into a barricaded door leading to the Speaker's Lobby, wearing a Trump campaign flag. The Air Force reviewed the circumstances and reversed a prior determination, with an under secretary inviting the family to the Pentagon. The decision drew praise from conservatives and was framed as overdue by some officials. A wrongful-death suit filed by her family settled for just under $5 million.
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