US offers military funeral honors to Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt
August 28, 2025
The U.S. government is offering military funeral honors for Ashli Babbitt. She was the rioter who was killed at 35 by an officer in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Offering military honors to one of the Capitol rioters is part of President Donald Trump’s attempts to rewrite that chapter after the 2020 election he denies he lost as a patriotic stand. Babbitt has gained martyr status among Republicans. The woman was a U.S. Air Force veteran shot dead while attempting to climb through the broken window of a barricaded door leading to the Speaker’s Lobby inside the Capitol.