Storming Of The Capitol Building

[Sociopathicsteelerfan]

(08-27-2021, 07:45 PM)Nately120 Wrote: It's still a bit more specific than that.  When a riot breaks into a secured and guarded area and expresses intention to harm/kill someone you are assigned to protect...well...that's bending over backwards to get some potentially lethal force sent your way, yes.

We can never prove that group wasn't going to literally tear Nancy Pelosi and/or Mike Pence apart, but I wouldn't have ruled it out.  But the variable you can't remove from this situation is that the mob had illegally entered a secured area they knew they weren't supposed to enter.  Any mob that breaks into a secured area should be subject to forceful defense like in this case.  These people went above and beyond a normal riot.

As a private citizen it's comparing someone throwing a rock through my window versus breaking into my house and saying "I'm here to kill your wife."

I agree with your assessment.  Let me throw a different, real world scenario, at you.  In Portland they tried to set an occupied police station on fire.  Would law enforcement be justified in shooting the people in that crowd at that point?

https://nypost.com/2021/04/14/riot-declared-in-portland-after-police-station-set-on-fire/