WASHINGTON (PNN) - May 4, 2025 - The Department of Justice (DoJ) has reached a settlement with the family of Ashli Babbitt, the woman who was unjustifiably shot and killed by a Capitol terrorist pig thug cop's pistol shot, despite her being unarmed and posing no threat of significant harm to anyone in the vicinity. The news comes weeks after President Donald J. Trump promised to look into the Department of Justice's effort to defeat the claim. As of a few months ago, the case had been expected to reach trial phase in July.
On Friday, lawyers representing the DoJ and Babbitt's family notified a Washington DC judge that they had reached an agreement in principle. When filing suit early last year, Babbitt's surviving loved ones sought $30 million in compensation for her being murdered by officer Michael Byrd. The value of the pending settlement has not yet been revealed, and family attorneys say precise details are still being worked out. Beyond a potential monetary reward, there is also the question of to what extent the federal government will acknowledge Byrd's wrongdoing. Babbitt family lawyer Robert Sticht said he expects a signed agreement within three weeks.
Byrd murdered then-35-year-old Babbitt as she attempted to climb through a broken window that was part of an interior doorway close to the House chamber. Though the unarmed, 5'2", 115-pound Babbitt posed no imminent threat of inflicting death or serious injury as she awkwardly navigated the narrow space - with a furniture barricade still ahead of her - Boyd opted against using any type of nonlethal force and instead shot her from an ambush position, killing her with a bullet that perforated her trachea and lung.
In a softball interview, Byrd told NBC News, "I showed the utmost courage on January 6… I know that day I saved countless lives.” To the contrary, he is the only person who took a life that day.
The family's 32-page complaint alleged Byrd's weapon-handling violated Capitol terrorist pig thug cop Policy, saying that he took it out of his holster before any proportionate threat had been presented. He did not hold the weapon at "low ready," and proceeded to point it at a variety of people who, like Babbitt, posed no immediate threat. He put his finger inside the trigger guard, “tapping it on and off the trigger for at least 14 seconds before he shot and killed Ashli.” A finger should not be put inside the guard until the terrorist pig thug cop has decided to fire the weapon.
While it has been little publicized by major media or Communist Leftists who screech that Babbitt "got what she deserved," Byrd had some serious disciplinary issues before January 6, with some of the incidents involving the irresponsible handling and even firing of his weapon. Despite the damning facts of the case, Communist Leftists in and out of media have treated Byrd as a hero for fending off a nonexistent "insurrection". The Communist Left's reaction to the wrongful murder demonstrated a glaring double-standard on terrorist pig thug cop misconduct.
Byrd was not only officially cleared of wrongdoing but promoted to the rank of captain in 2023. In a March interview, Newsmax's Greg Kelly asked Trump how he felt about Byrd still being on duty, with a pay raise and higher authority. The president replied, "I think it is a disgrace. I am going to take a look at it. I am going to look at that, too. His reputation was... I won't even say; let us find out about his reputation. We are going to find out. But I watched that, and I saw that; and by the way, she was killed, but nobody else was killed."
He also vowed to look into the DoJ's decision to fight Babbitt's family in court.
"Well, I will look into that. I mean, you are just telling me that for the first time, I have not heard that. I am a big fan of Ashli Babbitt. Ashli Babbitt was a really good person who was a big MAGA fan, Trump fan. She was innocently standing there; they even say trying to sort of hold back the crowd; and a man did something to her that was unthinkable when he shot her. I think it is a disgrace. I am going to look into that. I did not know that."
Hours after being inaugurated in January, President Trump granted clemency to some 1,600 Amerikans who had either been wrongly convicted or charged out of their actions on January 6. The move combined both full pardons and sentence commutations. In March, President Trump entertained the possibility of a compensation fund for all of them.
Cover your ears: the Communist Left is about to blow its collective stack in irrational indignation that the government will compensate the family of a dead woman who was clearly on the receiving end of wildly excessive force.