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Judicial Watch Files FOIA Suit Against FBI, Claims ‘Cover-Up’ in Jan. 6 Shooting Death of Ashli Babbitt

As I reported on January 6 of this year, Aaron Babbitt, the husband of deceased Jan. 6 protester Ashli Babbitt, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the federal government. Attorneys with the conservative legal group Judicial Watch filed the suit — which alleges wrongful death, and assault and battery — on behalf of Mr. Babbitt.

And on Friday, Judicial Watch announced that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on behalf of Mr. Babbitt and Ashli Babbitt’s estate against the Department of Justice (DOJ) for all FBI files related to the shooting death inside the U.S. Capitol by then-Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd.

Here’s more:

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California to compel production of the FBI files on Ashli Babbitt and Aaron Babbitt after the FBI denied two February 27, 2023, FOIA requests to the FBI and subsequently failed to respond to an appeal of the denial for:

All FBI files for Ashli Elizabeth Babbitt. Additional information: “Subject also used the names” Ashli Elizabeth McEntee and Ashli Elizabeth Pamatian;” and:

All FBI records, including main and cross-referenced files, related to Aaron Raymond Babbitt.

Judicial Watch further said:

Ashli traveled alone from San Diego to Washington, D.C. to attend the Women for America First (aka Save America) rally on January 6, 2021, at the Ellipse. The shooting occurred at the east entrance to the Speaker’s Lobby.

After demonstrators filled the hallway outside the lobby, two individuals in the crowded, tightly packed hallway struck and dislodged the glass panels in the lobby doors and the right door sidelight. Lt. Byrd, who is a US Capitol Police commander and was the incident commander for the House on January 6, 2021, shot Ashli on sight as she raised herself up into the opening of the right door sidelight.

Lt. Byrd later confessed that he shot Ashli before seeing her hands or assessing her intentions or even identifying her as female. Ashli was unarmed. Her hands were up in the air, empty, and in plain view of Lt. Byrd and other officers in the lobby.

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6 thoughts on “Judicial Watch Files FOIA Suit Against FBI, Claims ‘Cover-Up’ in Jan. 6 Shooting Death of Ashli Babbitt”

  1. They needed a patsy to pull the trigger. A black one? So much the better. LBJ and friends are having a laugh under their tombstones. (It’s a Democrat thing.)

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