Quote:The family of Ashli Babbitt is set to sue the U.S. Capitol Police and the officer who shot her dead during the January 6 Capitol riot.
They will seek at least $10million and will serve Capitol Police within 10 days, the family's lawyer Terry Roberts told Zenger.
Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran, was shot through a window by an unidentified officer as she and other Trump supporters tried to break into an area near the House floor.
Roberts said the suit would cover economic losses from Babbitt's death as well as other claims including punitive damages, estimating that $10million would be 'a good estimate' of the total amount sought.
The civil suit from the family follows an April 14 decision by federal prosecutors not to charge the officer after months of deliberation.
I would use the "All Live Matter" defence against the claim.
"Why didn't she comply?"
"When the looting starts, the shooting starts".Case dismissed.
or at the last, make her defence have to destroy the ALM arguments.
Her family should be suing Trump, not the police. It's not like his pre-coup speech wasn't filled with language telling them to do what they did. You could also add his stand-down orders and the obviously planned low staffing levels.
Only once did Trump say not to get violent... but of course, he did it in an off-hand way and then promptly buried it. Here are some wonderful select quotes:
“Republicans are constantly fighting like a boxer with his hands tied behind his back. … And we’re going to have to fight much harder.”
“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol… because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”
“When you catch somebody in a fraud, you are allowed to go by very different rules. So I hope Mike has the courage to do what he has to do, and I hope he doesn’t listen to the RINOs and the stupid people that he’s listening to.”
“We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesn’t happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved. Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore, and that is what this is all about. And to use a favourite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal.”
“You will have an illegitimate president. That is what you will have, and we can’t let that happen. “
“We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you. … We are going to the Capitol, and we are going to try and give … our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help, we’re trying — going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.”