Sam Lowry said:
Redbrickbear said:
Sam Lowry said:
Redbrickbear said:
Sam Lowry said:
The officers outside the door had done everything they could to slow the crowd's advance, but they were cornered and in no position to do anything more. By all accounts they were distressed enough. They would have been even more distressed if the door had come down and they'd found themselves caught between it and an onrushing mob.
You are now backpedaling and making other unverified claims.
You can see by the video there were only a few protestors at the doors to the Senate Chamber (not a large mob).
Now again..maybe it was a justified shot and maybe it was not
The officers outside the door did not feel the need to shoot.
Point being that if we are comparing two female protestors being shot by officers of the law…the one coming at an officer with a car is probably objectively more understandable… in terms of making a active fire decision… than the other one just standing and pounding on a glass door next to officers.
The lesson should be don't ignore police orders and don't put yourself in very dangerous situations/confrontations with law enforcement.
But you are spinning the Ashli Babbit shooting to fit your ideological narrative
I'm doing what I've always done as an outside observer to police shooting cases, which is to evaluate them according to the law and the facts as best we know them. More often than not I've found the actions justified. Whether they were justified or not, in all but one or two cases my conclusions have been borne out by investigations or trials. This board certainly doesn't need my help producing predictable, ideologically based opinions.
Then you need to go back and watch both videos of both shootings (from multiple angles)
Ashli Babbit was unarmed and standing so close to other officers as to nearly touch them. She was banging on the glass door when shot.
Mrs Goode was also close to officers and attempting to drive forward with an officer right in front of her large SUV when she was shot.
Both made women poor choices and ignored police orders.
Yet you have defended one shooting (and done so while pushing some subjective/suspect info)
And at the same time you have been very critical of the other.
Your own ideology/political values seems to be coloring your views on these two law enforcement shootings
J6 apologists have a bad habit of taking images out of context to justify their position. The fact that the officers outside the door weren't shooting doesn't mean they weren't in a volatile and dangerous situation. They were badly outnumbered and exposed. Their best course of action was to de-escalate (you know, like cops are supposed to be trained to do).
The officer who shot Babbitt was in a different position. He was behind the last line of defense, with Congress members in sight, and he needed to hold it as long as possible. When she started breaking through the door (not just banging on it), the time to de-escalate ran out.
Yes you have been extremely supportive of the shooting of Ashli Babbit.
You have done so by inserting your own beliefs into your response. And using inflamed rhetoric "last line of defense"…this not the battle of the Alamo and that is not a legal position when talking about an officer behind a door making the choice (possibly correct choice) to shoot an unarmed female protestor.
And we can't know what the officers next to Mrs. Babbit were thinking (we just know they did not open fire on her or decide that would be appropriate to do)
You of course claim to personally know what the Officers were thinking and feeling and that the actions of the officer in the other room was justified.
You also claim a "mob" was behind her. (In reality it was a few individuals standing next to officers)
But then you offer endless criticism for a similar shooting where a law enforcement officer was faced with an individual ignoring police commands and driving a SUV toward him.
You are a full on supporter of the Ashli Babbit fatal shooting and a negative opponent of the Renee Good fatal shooting
Pretty obvious you are not a objective observer of these events but a person who makes determinations based on his own political/ideological views