She wasn’t from DC and had no way to know that.
Her belligerence in a strange city is crazy on its face. As a mother, she was an idiot to race the car in a strange city street, even if she was trying to escape perceived danger. Eighty MPH in a city packed with pedestrians? Cray-cray, big time. You don't take an infant into a strange big city and then do the "angry black woman" response when you have made a mistake that damaged someone else's property, no matter whose.
Let's for one minute say your theory that she was just a little confused in traffic is true. No one has mentioned the other subscript here: the men who challenged her were likely to have been white. After making her little "mistake" ramming a Barrycade outside the White House, as you suggest, she was too radicalized by our "uniter" president and his race-based tirades about the arrest of the Harvard professor and the shooting of his son Trayvon to have trusted the white officer enough to roll down her window and ask for directions, for the safety of her own little baby. She didn't do that. She tried to speed away in a strange city.
The innocent traffic mistake theory also sets aside the discoveries police in Connecticut have made when they searched her residence: she was prescribed anti-depressants and anti-psychotic meds. Had she taken her meds as prescribed? Are these meds safe and without side effects like "psychotic break" in all individuals to whom they are prescribed?
As someone who often walks around the Federal area, I am personally relieved they took her out. It was tragic; but it wasn't wrong.
> Eighty MPH in a city packed with pedestrians? Cray-cray, big time.
Yet hundreds of cops did exactly that in responding to the incident, including one who totaled his own cruiser against a stationary barricade.
Also on the crazy list is discharging a dozen rounds in a city packed with pedestrians. Bystanders can and do get shot as just recently happened in New York.
Also, we still have the issue of after she crashed and got out of the car, the cops put several rounds into her to finish her off. That’s an execution any way you want to describe it, and the America I know doesn’t allow that kind of thing. We used to have trials and the like.
Until we see what went down at the White House - and video most certainly exists unless someone deliberately destroyed it - there is a distinct possibility that her actions were perfectly reasonable in context.
So why are they hiding the context? I can think of no good reason other than covering something up.
On the mental health stuff, it doesn’t matter if she’s a complete lunatic, police simply cannot execute someone. It’s not their call to make. Their job is to put the person in custody, so that the justice system can do its work - not in a grave.