Babbitt was shot and killed by police as she breached a set of doors to the Speaker's Lobby in the House of Representatives on Jan. 6, 2021.
A senior staffer to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met this week with Micki Witthoeft, mother of Ashli Babbitt, the woman shot and killed by police as she breached a set of doors to the Speaker's Lobby on Jan. 6, 2021. The meeting occurred outside McCarthy's office, according to multiple sources.
The brief meetings are the latest in a series of inroads with newly empowered House Republican majority made by Babbitt's mother, relatives of Jan. 6 defendants and even one Capitol riot defendant herself, according to a review by CBS News. McCarthy is already under scrutiny over his recent decision to share exclusive access to some of the over 41,000 hours of Jan. 6 police video withJan. 6 defendant Victoria White of Minnesota allegedly violated a stay-away order from Washington, D.C. by visiting the Capitol building to meet with congressional staff and the D.C. jail in support of some incarcerated Jan. 6 defendants. At a Feb.
"There are serious issues about how a lot of Jan. 6 defendants have had their constitutional rights violated," said Donalds."They've been held for extended periods of time."
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