The Justice Department has been ordered by a federal judge to provide some answers regarding the shooting death of unarmed Jan. 6 protester Ashli Babbitt by a plainclothes member of the Capitol Police as part of a $30 million wrongful death suit.
Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was shot and killed by then-Lt. Michael Byrd, who claimed at the time that he only fired his weapon as a last resort as she climbed through a broken door window leading into a lobby outside of the House of Representatives.
“In a sign that the case filed by Babbitt’s estate and Washington-based Judicial Watch has been greenlighted, U.S. District Court Judge Ana C. Reyes gave the government a month to address four of the seven counts in the lawsuit,” the Washington Examiner reported on Friday.
