Capitol Rioter Killed on Jan. 6 to Receive Funeral With Military Honors in Trump-Era Reversal

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Capitol Rioter Killed on Jan. 6 to Receive Funeral With Military Honors in Trump-Era Reversal
STUNNING REVERSAL
An appointee of President Donald Trump has undone a decision reached by the Biden administration.
Josh Fiallo
Breaking News Reporter
Updated Aug. 28 2025 7:05PM EDT
Published Aug. 28 2025 6:19PM EDT


The MAGA fanatic fatally shot by police at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, will receive a funeral with full military honors—a reversal made possible by an appointee of President Donald Trump.

Loved ones of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot as she crawled through a smashed window toward a U.S. Capitol Police officer, successfully lobbied the branch to reverse its years-old decision.

“After reviewing the circumstances of SrA Babbitt’s death, the Air Force has offered Military Funeral Honors to SrA Babbitt’s family,” an Air Force spokesperson told NBC News.

Babbitt, a retired senior airman, was 35 at the time of her death. Her family, along with many in MAGA, have contended that she was murdered by Lt. Michael Byrd, who fired a shot at her in self-defense as he tried to fend off a mob of Trump supporters.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/ashli-babbitt-to-receive-funeral-with-military-honors-in-trump-era-reversal/

[GemDigger]

1. The man has no low to his nasty.

She was shot HALFWAY through the freaking window. There were shouts that there was a gun and she continued to try and get through.

[3catwoman3]

2. Retired senior airman?

Was she medically retired? No way an E-4 would have enough time in service to retire in the usual manner.

[fujiyamasan]

3. Honoring secessionist traitors and insurrectionists

[maxrandb]

4. Good! It will make it easier find and dig the traitors body up out of hollowed ground

and transfer it to Mar-O-Lardo Cemetery, Crematorium and Drive-thru, if her burial is documented by the Pentagon.

[sakabatou]

5. Disgusting

[moondust]

6. Hero of Toadyland

Which hole at the Bedminster country club will she be buried under?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. MaddowBlog-Why the scheduled military funeral for Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt is indefensible

U.S. military funerals are traditionally reserved for actual heroes, not insurrectionists who attacked their own country’s capitol.

Why the scheduled military funeral for Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt is indefensible - MSNBC

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— (@oc88.bsky.social) 2025-08-29T20:10:30.606Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/scheduled-military-funeral-jan-6-rioter-ashli-babbitt-indefensible-rcna228089

It was a few months ago when Donald Trump’s Justice Department reached a settlement with the family of Ashli Babbitt, the Jan. 6 rioter who was fatally shot by a police officer during the attack on the U.S. Capitol. As part of the agreement, the Republican administration announced plans to give roughly $5 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Babbitt’s relatives.

While this was impossible to defend given the weakness of the case — Thomas Manger, the outgoing chief of the U.S. Capitol Police, condemned the payment in no uncertain terms — it apparently was just part of a larger effort. As my MSNBC colleague Ja’han Jones explained:

The U.S. Air Force is planning to offer an official military funeral for deceased insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt, who was shot during the attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to documents released by a conservative nonprofit.

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, a war veteran who’s now estranged from the Republican Party, said in response to the news: “While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.”.....

But in June 2021, Trump said that he saw Babbitt as an ally who was on his “side.” A month later, he said the rioter was “innocent.” A month after that, he accused the officer who shot her of being a “murderer.” In 2023, Trump condemned the cop as a “thug” and a “coward” who deserved to be vilified, and earlier this year, he inexplicably claimed that Babbitt was “shot for no reason whatsoever.”

Two months later, Trump claimed that Babbitt “was innocently standing there” and had possibly even tried to help law enforcement by “trying to sort of hold back the crowd” when she was shot.

It was as odious a lie as the president has ever told.

Nevertheless, it’s against this backdrop that his administration isn’t just giving Babbitt’s family millions of dollars, it’s also giving Babbitt a military funeral — traditionally reserved for actual heroes, not insurrectionists who attacked their own country’s capitol.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

8. They should dig her up and shoot her again.