guns_on_the_run

It's unfortunate that you're being downvoted, you make an excellent point.

George Floyd was murdered by police during a routine arrest.

Ashli Babbitt was executed by police for trespassing during a protest.

Both of these (and many others) are powerfully symbolic: of an overbearing and largely unaccountable police state, in which its enforcers use violence as a first resort.

> if this isn't a textbook example of a situation where law enforcement was justified in using lethal force, I'm not sure what is.

There is no reasonable justification for the police to execute an unarmed protestor simply for trespassing in a political building.

I suspect that you (like many others) have just become normalized to such police brutality, to think this is acceptable.

Agreed, police officers should rarely be shooting anyone. And certainly not those who are merely trespassing.

There are plenty of options for stopping a person going into a place, that don't involve executing or seriously wounding them. It should be a grave concern for every citizen that the police generally have so few qualms about firing their guns at people.

The police should have attempted to deescalate this situation with a minimum of violence - not the maximum.

Shooting an unarmed protestor who is merely trespassing is absolutely an execution. Just as Rittenhouse's shootings were.

> In the end, a guy in buffalo costume fooling around on the senate floor is better than puddles of blood.

The police executed a lady who was trying to climb through a broken window in the building.

There are photos and videos of her literally dying in puddle of her own blood.

[0] https://heavy.com/news/ashli-babbit/

[1] https://twitter.com/Ashli_Babbitt/status/1345125644888281088