I can totally respect that point of view too. I don’t think my view would change depending on president though. Our police forces all over the country are becoming too militarized. While DC may be a special circumstance, it still doesn’t make sense that they would not have tried to stun gun her when she stepped out of car. Shooting a driver like that would not diffuse a potential car bomb. I respect your view though. The whole thing is beyond sad.
I think probably that the unfortunate woman - who does seem to have behaved like a threat earlier, and attempted to run over the police and even hit a Secret Service officer - may have said something to them that indicated that she had a gun or explosives, or that she wanted to kill the President or some such thing. I think the conspiracy theories here have gone way off the deep end on this one, and I also think that portraying the police as people who just live for their chance to shoot someone is extremely unfair.
But I do think there’s a connection with the shooting and what Obama is doing now in things like shutting down our national monuments, because he has raised the level of tension and unease in this country to unprecedented levels. People who are insane react very strongly to their emotional environments, which I think is why we have had so many mass shootings by crazy people lately. And unfortunately, the police are going to be much more likely to shoot first and ask questions later when there is an atmosphere of simmering anger and violence, which is what Obama has created.