Ashli Babbit's mother is memorializing her daughter's death every day this month until Aug. 30 at the Central Detention Facility in Washington, D.C.
That's where many of the Jan. 6 "insurrection" defendants are incarcerated. The event is documented on a website called www.4Ashli.com.
"I'm here in D.C. outside the jail in solidarity with these men and there are 26 of them in the D.C. gulag as pre-trial detainees without access to their families and no proper access to their lawyers that are sometimes not adequately representing them," said Babbit's mother, Micki Witthoeft, of San Diego.
The vigil starts daily at 7 p.m. with Jan 6 supporters meeting behind the back of the jail by the cemetery and ends at 9:30 pm.
"We sing patriotic songs and at nine o'clock, we sing the National Anthem," Witthoeft told the Southern California Record. "Some of these people have been in pretrial detention for 580 days in horrible conditions. It's my position that they are entitled to their constitutional rights."
On the fateful day, it was Lt. Michael Leroy Byrd, a 28-year-veteran of the Capitol Police who shot and killed Babbit after she tried to climb through the shattered window of a door leading into the House of Representatives.
"He should not have been there that day," Witthoeft said. "He had prior excessive use of force issues, at least one, and in the past has left his loaded weapon in a public restroom. So, it's my position that he should have been fired, not there to murder my daughter."
Though the grieving mother backs the blue, she doesn't believe the U.S. Capitol police force fall under the same category.
"Most of our men and women who put on the uniform every day and go out there to serve us are pure of heart but the Capitol Police are an arm of Congress," Witthoeft said. "They answer to nobody but Congress. They have no external review system."
Witthoeft has faith that her daughter's death will serve a purpose.
"It's absolutely going to bust wide open," she said. "Let's get these men to trial. Let's let them see their discovery. The reason the government doesn't want them to see their discovery and that they put them in this hole forever is because the same footage that involves their discovery would show the culpability of the FBI. It would show the Capitol Police behaving badly with arrestable offenses that day."