You were in the Marines, right? Trained? Right? Well, so was she. Decorated with deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan..she was trained. So here’s my question to you since you assumed that she was attacking a plain clothes cops pointing his service weapon at her while she’s about five foot nothing and all of buck twenty and UNARMED...he being trained do you actually think ANYONE who is trained is stupid enough to do that?
I don’t want to hear hyperbole, Howard. Use some common sense
Ok, fair enough and since you brought up my USMC service, I'll use a real life example from that:
I was never in a hot combat zone , but I was assigned to ASP guard for a few months.
ASP is " ammunition supply point" and the base weapons , ammo and explosives
are stored there in large earthen covered steel bunkers.
Everyone on this kind of detail is required to carry a "deadly force card".
The card provides clear, concise situations where deadly force is authorized.
The first, is when ANY person crosses the perimeter and refuses to drop on the ground , IMMEDIATLY, when told.
A couple of times , the officer of the day, will test the ASP security and try walking past the guard.
When this happened, I told a Major ; " Sir, lay down on the deck , NOW "
Of course , in this situation, he quickly lay flat on the ground .
My partner and I walked up to him with weapons drawn and ordered him to show his ID .
The major slowly reached into his back pocket and produced it.
At that point, we addressed him by his rank, saluted him and he slowly got on his feet.
He gave a wry smile and said ; " Good job marines."
Ms Babbitt was a vet and would have KNOWN she tried breaking into a GOV facility thru a busted window.
Congress was in session and their violent break in, was a clear and present danger ,to the members of congress.
The armed cops told her to halt and stand down several times. She refused the order and he was authorized to use deadly force
Please remember the halls of congress is a Federal GOV facility with security assigned to protect the members.
In my opinion the armed officers who were at the door were NOT ordinary capitol police.
They were dressed in suits, instead of uniforms and had a different kind of hand gun?
I suspect they were part of the secret service or some similar detail assigned to protect members of congress?
