But why would government forces shoot this woman? Is she an activist?
To scare the crap out of the crowd and get them to go home. It's called terror. Axis of evil and all that. This is the 20th century way of keeping people under control. They had to import these thugs from Lebanon, Syria, and "Palestine". Getting the scenes on video, on the web in less than a minute via secure servers is the monkey wrench in that machine.