Ashli Babbitt's family is suing...

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

This'll go well.

[W_HAMILTON]

1. LOL

[Takket]

2. they better hope there isn't video of the event or it won't go well for them

[brooklynite]

4. In all fairness, doesn't every tourist try to skip the line by climbing in the window?

[magicarpet]

18. Yes,... tourists usually smash and break the window glass with the eagle at the top of an,.....

.....AmeriKKKan flag so as to not inconvenience the government tour guide having to open any doors. The more windows you smash the more it helps expedite the traffic flow of tourists through the Capitol Complex.

[Trueblue1968]

34. IF she was a violent Traitor, she would not have been shot. it is her own fault.

[haele]

51. There's video. I'm sure they will try to claim it's doctored.

It's not like she was climbing/being hoisted.up through the broken window into the restricted Speaker's Lobby after she threw a backpack through before she was shot or anything like that.

Haele

[GPV]

3. Trying to make money off their daughter's death??

[SoCalDavidS]

9. People Are Doing Go Fund Me's To Make $$$$$ Off Deaths Of Their Unvaccinated Family

Of course, lots of people are donating. Praise The Lord!

[jimfields33]

16. Happens numerous times a day

People sue for their family deaths all the time and it rarely even matters if that person was doing a criminal act. Cities and corporations pay out huge settlements annually.

[jpak]

5. Maybe Congress should sue her family

Womp womp

[kskiska]

6. No warning?

If someone breaks into my house do I need to issue a warning before shooting them?

[sarisataka]

47. I would say check your state law

Some states do have limitations on use of deadly force against an intruder.

There are cases where a burglar (or the family if the burglar was killed) have sued homeowners who have shot them, even when the burglar fired first.

Cases like those are the reason castle doctrine laws have been passed.

[malaise]

7. I hope someone else is paying for the lawyers

because they are going to lose

[SoCalDavidS]

12. Someone Is Probably Subsidizing Them

I doubt they're spending much of their own money out of pocket.

[malaise]

13. The oney men and women who financed

the failed coup

[Hoyt]

8. Doubt that will go well. But white wingers are gonna whine if they get caught.

[Takket]

10. seriously though...

they may have had a chance at a lawsuit if they sued the OTHER rioters on the grounds they physically or verbally tried to force her through the opening where she got shot. But of course that would mean acknowledging that Babbitt's fellow terrorists did something wrong, and her family cares more about defending drumpf than their own daughter.

[SoCalDavidS]

14. They Physically Tried To Force Her Through The Opening?

Well, there's the video showing her climbing under her own power, up and through the window.

[Takket]

30. yeah.... what im trying to say is...

the idea she was pushed to the front and/or "egged on" to go through the window is a better lawsuit to try than this ambushed nonsense. but it is 1 in a million for believably instead of one in a billion. ya know?

DOJ better damn well NOT settle this either. i know sometimes they are tempted to do that to avoid a long drawn out court battle but the absolutely cannot allow ANY legitimacy to EVER be brought the insurrection.

[SoCalDavidS]

33. They're Trying To Get Name Of Shooter Into Public nt

[Sherman A1]

11. They can go straight to .......

She was a domestic terrorist attempting to overthrow the government of the United States.

[TheRealNorth]

28. TFG....

Would have ordered a Predator drone strike (if they were Muslims).

[PortTack]

15. She was an insurrectionist, breaking and entering. The official that shot her, be it police of SS

Swore an oath to protect his charges...that’s what he was doing.

She of all ppl having been military understood that! Break the law...pay the consequences

[kairos12]

17. She was a traitor and a domestic terrorist.

[MyOwnPeace]

24. And there we have it......

END OF DISCUSSION!

[Raven123]

19. This from the "stand your ground" people

[MyOwnPeace]

25. Only counts if.....

THEY are the ones 'standing their ground.......'

[Progressive Jones]

20. Good Luck, gold diggers. I'd be embarrassed to admit

that filthy traitor was related to me.

She got what she asked for.

[sdfernando]

21. I hope the family has the $$ to pay

the Capitol Police attorney's fees.

[JohnSJ]

22. Fuck them. Trying to break into the House chamber with a mob behind her to stop election

certification, with intent do do physical harm to our representatives is not wrongful death

[UnderThisLaw]

23. I never realized

how much she looks like NFL great Jim Kelly

[Comfortably_Numb]

43. But he doesn't have a bullet hole in his neck... so there's that.

[no_hypocrisy]

26. Capitol Police should counter-sue.

[Sanity Claws]

27. Discovery should be interesting

[11 Bravo]

29. Fuck them and fuck her. She was a seditious terrorist.

[Zorro]

31. It's also a ploy to out the officer's name

[sheshe2]

32. Their attorney says

Their attorney says she was ambushed by the officer who shot her, and was given no warning or verbal command./div]

How do they know that? Was the attorney standing next to her, maybe eyewitnesses that were paying close attention to Ashli as they were screaming and shouting death threats to Killl Nancy Pelosi and hang Mike Pense? Perhaps the Attorney held a seance and spoke to her from the great beyond.

[IcyPeas]

36. [WATCH] the crowd breaking in were yelling "gun" "gun" "gun"

that may not be an official warning..... but everyone saw the gun.

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/national-international/video-shows-fatal-shooting-of-ashli-babbitt-at-u-s-capitol/2276430/

[sheshe2]

44. Thanks for the link.

I just watched several videos on the twitter thread... much violence and it wasn't the capital police.

[blm]

35. They should sue Q Anon and Trump

They killed her

[Clash City Rocker]

37. So she was part of an angry mob that injured 140 police officers

And attempted to assault members of Congress and the Vice President. Even if her intentions were not as violent, are they seriously claiming that the police should have stopped each of them and asked them?

It’s funny, when someone kills a black man who isn’t a threat to them, right-wingers will go back through everything that guy ever did to find something illegal, then use it as a rationale for killing him. Trayvon Martin? Pfft. He smoked weed, no wonder he’s dead. But their fellow RWNJs should be allowed to violently attack the Capital Building without repercussions? These people are deranged.

[WHITT]

38. So

a domestic terrorist is killed during the commission of a domestic terrorist attack?

Ah...

[yonder]

39. I don't believe Michael Reinoehl was given a warning

or verbal command before being shot down in the street by those Federal agents either. Also, he was not busting through any US Capitol windows, or anything else, at the time of his cold-blooded execution.

[Beetwasher.]

40. They Should Sue Trump

[Ocelot II]

41. The lawsuit will fail, but I think one purpose of it is to compel disclosure

of the name of the cop who shot her, for the usual nefarious RW motives.

[crickets]

49. Bingo. That, and to keep her name in the news. nt

[H2O Man]

42. They would be better

of suing her estate.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

45. I would say the door barricaded with piled furniture and the armed guards should be warning enough.

There was a witness filmed outside after the shooting. He was directly next to her. He said the guards were in fact shouting warnings, iirc.


Edit to add. This idiot:

[crickets]

52. Good find. 👍

[Strelnikov_]

54. I seem to remember a video where you could hear the popo saying to stop.

They were in a serious defensive posture, several popo in alcoves and doorways down the hallway, all with clear lines of fire to the barricade.

That hallway was a hold point, nothing was coming through.

[patphil]

46. Ambushed? You've got to be kidding.

What was she doing there? Did she get separated from her tour group, or was she perhaps trying to overthrow the government?
I don't like the fact that she died, but she put herself in that position.

[C_U_L8R]

48. May their lawyers be very expensive.

What an awful and stupid suit to file.

[SidDithers]

50. Hope they're bankrupted in counter-suits...nt

Sid

[budkin]

53. POOR TRAITOR

POOR MAGA

[mcar]

55. I hope when they lose, they have to pay court costs

I have no patience with these people.

[Botany]

56. Good chance that she was shot by a secret service.

... agent who was there to protect Speaker Pelosi. Those
instructionists were looking to find Nancy and Mike Pence and kill them. More of them needed to be shot that day. Fuck 'em.