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Ashli Babbitt's family say they will sue Capitol police for $10million claiming the cop who shot her 'ambushed' her and gave no verbal command before pulling the trigger Her family's attorney says they plan to file a wrongful death lawsuit They say video shows the cop who shot her gave no warning beforehand His attorney insists that he did but that it's not audible because he was wearing a mask and videos are filmed from too far away 'He was screaming, 'Stay back! Stay back! Don’t come in here!' the officer's lawyer, Mark Schamel, told Real Clear Politics. He added...

Most police departments—including Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police—are required to release an officer’s name within days of a fatal shooting. Not the U.S. Capitol Police, which is controlled by Congress and answers only to Congress. It can keep the public in the dark about the identity and investigation of an officer involved in a shooting indefinitely. Which is what happened with the Jan. 6 shooting of Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed protester in the U.S. Capitol riot who was fatally wounded by a plainclothes police lieutenant as she attempted to breach a set of doors inside the building. For the past six...