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The federal government is offering funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran and the rioter who was killed by a Capitol Police officer in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

In a statement obtained by the Associated Press, a U.S. Air Force spokesperson said that "after reviewing the circumstances" of Babbitt’s death, military funeral honors were offered to the family.

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Matthew Lohmeier, an under secretary of the Air Force, said on X that the decision was "long overdue," and shared a post from a conservative legal group that was advocating for Babbitt’s family.

The AP reported that the Trump administration agreed to pay just under $5 million to settle a wrongful-d

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