Certainly The Police Were Shooting To Kill

[SoCalMusicLover]

They keep saying NOTHING regarding the condition of the female suspect, although they continue to say that the Child in the car is safe and sound.

I've seen this enough lately to know that this likely means the suspect is probably dead. I imagine we'll get confirmation one way or another in the next couple of hours.

Sadly, if the young child in the car is the suspect's own, they witnessed the death of their parent.

[Avalux]

1. Yes and very sad that she intentionally put that child it in harm's way. n/t

[el_bryanto]

2. We'll see how it all plays out.

So much stuff coming in and out we won't really know the story for quite a while.

Bryant

[1-Old-Man]

14. Oh, we'll get a story in a couple of hours, that's for sure.

But do you honestly think that the story we get will in much of any way resemble a factual account of events? and who will tell the story? Will news reporters delve into facts and find witnesses or will they clamor around police officials and then echo the news conference they were provided? And before you answer ask yourself, which of those two do you see most often these days?

[meadowlark5]

3. Why would someone think they could do that and not get hurt or hurt their child?

I know people are angry and desperate - but really, trying to get to the president or anyone in congress? It's impossible. You're on the losing end here.

[jberryhill]

4. Bad meds

Who knows.

[Nay]

9. Yep. Or needs meds. Bet on it.

I would say 'poor kid,' but I don't know. This may be a blessing in disguise if the parent was this messed up. Horrible to say, but there it is.

[Buns_of_Fire]

27. Depending on the child's age, they may not even be aware of any of it.

For that matter, no one knows yet if it was even her child.

As usual, after the dust settles we'll have a clearer story.

[hlthe2b]

5. She's dead---just got an alert

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Msnbc confirms she is dead from sources

[polly7]

7. So strange that she'd risk her child by ramming the gate ...

is it possible she panicked and lost control after being chased, or have I got the sequence wrong.

[kestrel91316]

12. Well she popped out of the car with a loaded gun, so I don't think this whole thing

was some simple misunderstanding.

[winter is coming]

16. I've seen conflicting reports as to whether she had a gun.

Hopefully, they'll get things sorted out in a few hours.

[kestrel91316]

18. I was just going by early reports. Turns out the only deadly weapon she was using was her car.

You act like this at the WH and the Capitol, wild car chase all over DC, YOU'RE GONNA WIND UP SHOT.

[SoCalMusicLover]

8. Go Up Against Police, You're Gonna Lose

These days, police don't even always require a sound reason to shoot someone dead.

But give them a solid reason, like trying to ram the White House gates, and you should pretty much expect this result.

Hope this was intentional on her part, because the result is her child(assuming), will now grow up without a mother.

[malaise]

10. You try to breach the WH security gate

And don't expect gunshots.
Thank you Security folks

[LiberalEsto]

11. I saw video of a cop carrying the child, on CNN

Child is a little girl, about 3 or 4, seemed uninjured from what I saw. Whew.

[geek tragedy]

15. If one wants to commit suicide by cop, she chose a great way to do it. nt

[geek tragedy]

20. No, just someone who tries to attack the White House and then

run police over.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/video-shows-police-chase-at-u-s-capitol-shooting-incident

[geek tragedy]

22. No, just that she was homicidal. Why did you sign up at DU to whine

about someone getting killed for trying to run over police after trying to attack the white house?

[geek tragedy]

26. You have every right to be stupid here, nt

[Rex]

29. Oopsie! They got the DU hook!

Maybe the admins are getting tired of Teh Stupid.

[geek tragedy]

30. There's stupid and then there's so stupid it has to be trolling nt

[Rex]

31. True, glad to see the admins on high alert.

The Teabaggery freakout over the ACA is bringing them out of the woodworks imo.

[maddezmom]

23. So tell me...what do you think the police should have done in this situation?

[Rex]

17. Cops always shoot to kill, that is their policy.

I don't understand why this situation would be any different? Maybe because of a child in the car?

BUT they always shoot to kill.

[SoCalMusicLover]

32. Shooting To Kill

It may very well have been warranted in this situation, but the mindset that "they always shoot to kill," is pretty sad.

Police are not supposed to shoot to kill unless their lives or someone else's life is in danger. Certainly applicable in this case, but not ALWAYS, as you imply.

In this day and age though, I think cops pretty much feel they have the right to shoot to kill. Same thing that Zimmerman got away with, by claiming he was in danger. It's often an excuse to justify an otherwise negligent killing of an unarmed suspect.

[Azathoth]

28. Kind of hard to go for a leg wound when you're shooting at the driver of a speeding car n/t