[Zhang Fei]

[Black Lives Matter people know that when a member of the public clearly has a gun and might be able to kill an officer, that member of the public might quickly be shot.

My former landlady had a friend whose boyfriend was shot dead by police in Virginia because he was coming down stairs at least a dozen feet away with a knife.]

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But it’s one thing to see something with the naked eye only yards away and quite another to look at it through a scope from over a hundred yards away. IIRC, a Reuters cameraman was killed because his camera was mistaken for an RPG. No charges levied, but that was in a literal war zone. A political rally is not a war zone.

[Brian Griffin]

“to see something”

Trump’s head - ~12 inches in size

sniper rifle - ~3 feet in length

Counter-snipers know what a rifle looks like.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/reuters-videographer-killed-southern-lebanon-2023-10-13/

The guy was with other press people in a known press area.