I am soooo torn on this Scott. I'm pretty confident that the officer will be cleared, especially with all the rhetoric attacking the protestors as rioters and insurgents. If this was a BLM/ANTIFA protest, I wonder if the officer would have pulled the trigger. I'm so sick of these idiots who take to social media and act like the police acted differently in the Capital protest then they did during the BLM protests. Those protests were far more violent and the police stood down most of the time or used pepper spray, even as they were being run over or attacked.
I've been in that type of scenario and I chose to stay behind cover and not take further action and the situation was far more dire in the sense that shots were fired by the suspect so he was armed and advancing. But I'm not certain that was the right time for the officer to take that action. He had to step away from his cover and shoot the unarmed lady who was trying to climb through the window. Not smart at all on her part, especially if she noticed the officers who were at gun point from the video I saw.
A couple things here
One of the cell phone videos of the incident I saw had one of the guys saying watch out, gun, gun, gun, get back, he’s got a gun. (Or something along those lines) Then she starts to climb inside and then gets shot
So it’s not like it came out of nowhere and that she didn’t have at least the smallest amount of warning before she was shot. (Plus you can hear security yelling at her and warning her before they shot her, you just can’t make out what they are saying because of all the commotion) They were screaming gun before she climbed inside. That was her decision to climb inside after hearing someone say watch out, he’s got a gun. I’m sure she thought there was no way he would shoot her.
And that’s the reason I asked what part of the building she was attempting to enter.
If the area she was attempting to gain access to was just another part of the building where none of the politicians were then she shouldn’t have been shot
But if she/they were about to breech the chamber where the VP was held up then I see no problem with her getting shot. Do I agree with it? No, but I completely understand it. It’s the fucking VPOTUS and an angry mob is about to breech the area where he is held up. Of course they are going to use deadly force to protect the VP.