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This was not someone’s bedroom being broken into in the middle of the night. This was in a public building, and everyone in the Capitol already knew a political protest was taking place outside their doors. Cops have a duty to simply arrest unarmed protestors not posing a threat to them and not shoot to kill them, especially when they are small women they could almost certainly handle without the need of a weapon.

There is no reason for deadly force to be the first line of defense unless cops are genuinely in potentially life-threatening situations. I’m all for cops using deadly force if someone is waving a gun or knife around and refusing to put it down or is violently resisting arrest or something similar. I’m not for cops shooting an unarmed woman trying to climb through a window when there was clearly no actual need for it, as the cops standing behind her knew (and, well, every other cop in the building also clearly knew, since no one else trespassing was killed).