Actually, quite believable. Typical police thinking in a case like this is that a child in the vehicle is a *hostage* to the adult, whoever the adult is.
There is some sense in this, because terrorists frequently use children both as shields, and to prevent a shooting defense *long enough* to say, get a car bomb to its target.
The critical, overriding thing is that the armed police, city and federal, in D.C., have to work in two modes: ordinary crimes and terrorism. And the selector switch between these two modes can change in a moment.
If they thought this woman was just intoxicated, or an ordinary criminal, they might shoot her if she used her car as a weapon, or like a weapon. However, if they think she is acting like a terrorist, it is shoot first and ask questions later.
Initially, they were probably patting themselves on the back for “rescuing” the child before “killing the terrorist”.
So where are Jesse and Sharpton?
This African-American was executed by LEOs.
Were the killers black too, does that make it OK for the media?
New rules of engagement on US soil.
New rules of engagement on US soil.
This was the last day of the drill which included Federal, State, Local and municipal forces. Called "Capitol Shield 2014". He mentions that info was found at www.ARMY.MIL
The USSR didn’t shoot Mathius Rust.
The Chinese tanks stopped for that kid.
I guess America really is exceptional.
D.C. Death Swarm
Got to remember that most of those people aren’t qualified to work at McDonalds, give them badges and guns and no telling what will happen.