Doesn’t need a backpack. Richard Reid, an Islamist, put explosives in his shoes. Grenades can fit in pockets. One of Isis’ sickest and most bloodthirsty western converts was a woman.
What are you trying to say here?
Stand your ground, draw the line, and you can definitely shoot if you’re being charged at by the first person through the barricades who has a huge angry mob behind him/her... UNLESS THAT PERSON IS A WHITE FEMALE CONSERVATIVE?
If anyone gives a locked door in a building full of frightened VIPs the Here’s Johnny treatment right in front of armed security, specifically in order to get to the people on the other side of the protective barrier, they have no business whingeing about it if they get a heavy handed response.
The ones who were right there smashing at the door were stood at the front of a noisy crowd. They saw the gun, they all shouted warnings to each other, and most importantly they all stood down.
Not one of those guys tried to climb through the window because they knew what was waiting on the other dide. They’ve all admitted as much. Their videos confirm it.
The narrative that the shot was unprovoked and fired with no warning is not backed up by even one person who was definitely right there by those doors on that day. It’s an invention of the QAnon inspired alternative facts lobby.
There is no way the shooter could’ve even seen the cops behind the crowd much less heard them above all the racket.
So we can ignore the second alternative fact about how the killer’s X ray vision and superhearing meant he knew all the protesters were just smashing the door down for the LOLz and shot from a position eher nobody (except a big line of male protesters shouting “he’s got a gun” several times) could see the gun.
If Ashli couldn’t hear those guys shouting “he’s got a gun” several times when she was stood practically next to them, then the shooter couldn’t possibly definitely have seen or heard the police in the stairwell sixteen feet away beging two closed doors and a crowd of fifty shouty protesters.
There was a line. It was being defended at gunpoint by someone who was either defending frightened folks on their own initiative or who’d been ordered to do it... But who was making darned sure the protesters could see him AND his gun.
All those male protesters saw him and they then understood it was a line not to be crossed.
We will never know what motivated Ashli to cross it. But we sure as heck know that only an ocean-going liar and hypocrite of a faux conservative would deny that, if they’d been the guard holding the gun, and there’d been a Trump aide cowering behind them, this would’ve absolutely been defended by everyone MAGA.
Because it was a textbook “terrorist breach” scenario, irrespective of the appearance, gender, race, religion or political creed of the first person through the broken window. If one very angry, very psyched person can get through the barricade, so can the fifty crazies behind them.
Lethal force is not just morally authorized, it’s the only logical solution. End of story.
IIRC the LEO’s on Ashli’s side of the doors were making Hand Signals to someone on the other side of the doors.