Trump admin to pay $5 mn to family of woman shot at US Capitol riot

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Trump signed pardons on his first day in office for more than 1,500 participants in the attack on the Capitol by supporters seeking to block certification of Democrat Joe Biden's election victory.
39% : The case had been scheduled to go on trial but the US Justice Department reversed course after Trump won the November 2024 election and entered into settlement talks.
26% : The Capitol police officer who shot Babbitt was cleared of any wrongdoing but Trump has repeatedly claimed the shooting was unwarranted and she was an "innocent" woman.
26% : Babbitt has been cast as a "martyr" by Trump supporters and her estate was represented in the wrongful death suit by the conservative group Judicial Watch.
21% : Ashli Babbitt, 35, was shot as she tried to climb through a window leading to the House Speaker's lobby during the assault on Congress by a mob of Donald Trump supporters seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

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