Washington (AP) – The US government offers military funeral honors Ashri BabbittA mob killed by an officer at the age of 35. On January 6th, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Babbitt, a California-born US Air Force veteran who was shot dead wearing a Trump campaign flag and tried to climb the broken window of a barricaded door that was caught in his shoulder, and the window leading to the lobby of a speaker inside the Capitol.
Providing military honor to one of the Capitol rioters is part of President Donald Trump’s attempt to rewrite that chapter in a patriotic position after the 2020 election. Babbitt won Mart teacher status Between Republicans and the Trump administration I agreed to pay Just under $5 million to settle an illegal dying lawsuit her family filed about her shooting.
Air Force Secretary Matthew Romeier said the decision was “long postponed” in X, sharing a post from a conservative legal group defending Babbitt’s family. The group’s judicial surveillance said the family had demanded military honor from former President Joe Biden’s administration and was denied.
In a statement, a US Air Force spokesman said it was “after reviewing the situation” of Babbitt’s death, saying military funeral honors were offered to the family. Babbitt was a senior aviator.
The post shared by Lohmeier includes a link to a letter written by the Air Force under his secretary to Babbitt’s family, and invited him to meet him at the Pentagon.
“After considering the circumstances of Ashli’s death and considering the information that has come up since then, I have been persuaded that my previous decision is wrong,” the letter read on August 15th. ___
