however there are legitimate questions...
as in, why didn't anybody hit the floor with the "active" shooter?...
.why did the supposed cop give the thumbs up to whoever was behind the glass?
..why were people more interested in taking pictures instead of helping this woman?...
btw....the response of the cops and medics and even the amb crew were pathetic....speaking as a RN in a busy acute care hospital for many decades...
You pose a question.
“why didn’t anybody hit the floor with an “active” shooter....”
I understand the question. People don’t often react the way we think we would or perceive. Hollywood would have many people think that a shotgun blast to the chest would throw someone a few feet backward, for example.
I have had multiply gun shot wound victims on many scenes. Why didn’t they “take cover” or “get down”?
I suspect people react in two different ways.......their brain is in a temporary denial or the run, take flight.
The couple shot in PA over shoveling snow into the neighbor’s property.
If you saw that video......there were numerous shots being fired and the couple just stood there. Why?
The man was shot and that caused him to take flight. The fight or flight syndrome.
Your question: “why did the supposed cop give the thumbs up to whoever was behind the glass?”
Answer: To indicate to the plain cloths Capitol Cop that he (we) are here. Those cops came from the stairs behind Miss Babbit and the thumbs up cop probably wanted the killer cop to see them as not to shot in that direction anymore.
It was indoors, lots of people yelling and talking, I suspect a hand wave and thumbs up (we’re good) because saying or yelling “Police!” Might not be heard.
“...why were people more interested in taking pictures instead of helping this woman?...”
One could say the same about a bad car wreck. People do the same thing there too.
I arrived at the Detroit River once and saw a drunk out of towner drowning as he thought he was going to swim across to Canada. People were standing around take video instead of of throwing him something, a rope, line, or floating device.
Why? Because that’s people’s behavior.
I saw D.C. EMS taking Ashli out on a stretcher (gurney-depends on your location) perhaps I missed something because that’s all I saw that was out there.
The EMS crew appear to be a Basis Life Support unit.
I saw a BVM at her head, so they were “bagging” her and one doing CPR.
I can’t find anything the EMS crew were doing or did that a nurse in a busy acute care facility found pathetic.
Not sure why you separated the Medics from the Ambulance Crew as they are one and the same.
Because of massive crowds the Ambulance was obviously parked out a ways.
Many venues where concerts or events are taking place there is usually an area with less crowds or if you’re lucky a pre-planned location kept open.
Nothing was very well pre-planned that day, and it doesn’t appear anything was able to be secured and kept open.