The Brief

The Trump administration has agreed to pay just under $5 million to Ashli Babbitt’s family.

They filed a wrongful death lawsuit over her shooting by an officer during the U.S. Capitol riot.

She was shot as she tried to climb through the broken window of a barricaded door.

The Trump administration has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit that a woman’s family filed after she was killed in the U.S. Capitol riot .

Babbitt was a 35-year-old Air Force veteran from San Diego.

She was shot by a Capitol police officer on Jan. 6, 2021, as she tried to climb through the broken window of a barricaded door leading to an area known as the Speaker’s Lobby as Capitol Police officers were evacuating members of Congress from the chamber.

The backstory:

The wrongful death lawsuit

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