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.

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-death lawsuit that Babbitt’s family filed over her shooting.

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