According to court records released Friday, the husband of deceased Jan. 6 protester Ashli Babbitt has filed a $30 million wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. government.
Attorneys with Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group, filed the suit in California federal court on behalf of Aaron Babbitt, which claims wrongful death and assault and battery.
Babbitt was shot and killed by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd during the breach of the Capitol Building as she tried to climb through the smashed window of a barricaded door near the House chamber.
The lawsuit alleges:
The facts speak [the] truth. Ashli did not go to Washington as part of a group or for any unlawful or nefarious purpose,” [and that Babbitt, an Air Force veteran] posed no threat to the safety of anyone.
Judicial Watch attorneys accused Byrd of “violating standards for care governing the safe use of a firearm,…
