Riepe:
As for murdering a Trump supporter at the Capitol Riot:
She was entering (breaking and) the Capitol building unlawfully. We do not know what her FULL intent was, but this is a case of taking your chances. In a legal suit this would be termed “assumption of the risk”. A peaceful demonstrator would not have been caught dead in the building. Though against indiscriminate shootings by Police, this really is not that. An Officer in this situation had every right to fear for their life. Why is it you can find excuses for all the murders of black men, such as George Floyd, but not see any justification for the shooting of that woman. Think about the actions of the black guy versus her very aggressive assault on the building.
A black or white person entering to loot or even damage property probably is chanting about killing Cops or hanging the Vice President of the United States of America. The store owner ought to get outta there and leave law enforcement to the mostly law abiding good police officers. That said, no one should be looting, ever. Still, there is no comparison, at all, to storming the Capitol. There the cops are lawfully protecting “our” building and Constitutionally protected Congressional action. Different situation entirely. You are comparing “apples to oranges.”

Mr Walsh:
Re: your statement that I am adamently opposed to using quote button, please note I generally start my comments by encapsulating the prior statement before commenting. There are those who state they cannot remember what they said minutes or hours earlier. That is not my problem. I think they can remember; if wrong, perhaps they would best be served by taking Prevagen. I can still remember those remarks and your prior support of those remarks. That was probably at least a month ago, maybe more. While I have often read and respect your comments I feel I want to do it “my way.” If my comments don’t work for some readers, it has always been my feeling they have the right to not read them. Certainly, some don’t read them fully at best, even now. I saw that as early as this late afternoon.

Here is some logic. See if you can follow it.

You admit because it is self evident in the video that the Capitol cop shot from across the hallway. A hall way runs between two rooms does it not? For a hallway you are looking at 10 feet minimum width. Ashli Babbit was shot in the room across the hallway. The width of that room which held dozens and dozens of people at the time had to be at least about 20 feet wide, not a broom closet as you think.

In addition, the room where she was shot had an outside window which she was coming in from. That had to be at the end of the room even more of a distance from the hallway and from the shooter also. He could not have been talking to her when he shot and she could not have heard anything in the chaos.

Your premise of 6-8 feet away is totally asinine which characterizes your general thinking at least.

Here is some logic. See if you can follow it.

You admit because it is self evident in the video that the Capitol cop shot from across the hallway. A hall way runs between two rooms does it not? For a hallway you are looking at 10 feet minimum width. Ashli Babbit was shot in the room across the hallway. The width of that room which held dozens and dozens of people at the time had to be at least about 20 feet wide, not a broom closet as you think.

In addition, the room where she was shot had an outside window which she was coming in from. That had to be at the end of the room even more of a distance from the hallway and from the shooter also. He could not have been talking to her when he shot and she could not have heard anything in the chaos.

Your premise of 6-8 feet away is totally asinine which characterizes your general thinking at least.