All Law Enforcement Officers are subject to the use of force continuum, the only thing setting the Secret Service apart is their training to take a bullet for their VIP. Most of the work they do is handling currency forgeries, so interestingly an agent would have showed up to inspect George Floyd's fake bills to investigate if there is an underground print shop. Unless that woman posed a lethal threat to the VIP in the area she should NOT have been fired upon. Even the lunatic that charged into the White House under Obama was tackled, this guy fucked up and its reported he is a Capitol Police not a Secret Service agent anyway. The proper tool for that scenario was a baton or OC Sprays, since he likely had neither he should have ran over and pushed her back through the window. The housecat got spooked and is almost certainly running a real risk of prison over it.
watched video a fair few times, several things stand out:
she was surrounded by guys dressed like robocops, likely wearing bulletproof vests & for sure acting like it. she was way out of place in the middle of marine paratroopers. when bullets come, the smart person (& the military veteran, as she was) should know to duck.
unless they feel protected.
they stood their ground like viet cong & did not flinch.
chances are the shooter (from whichever agency) assumed they all were wearing vests and went balls out for that reason.
imo, this particular breakaway cell was not boomer fuckups like the others, they knew exactly where they were going and could well have gotten in. another 30 seconds, they would have been inside the barracade.
shooting her was a decoy action and it worked. my question is 1) why was she acting as fearless as the others, who appeared armed to the teeth 2) did this clearly-organized faction -notice- this smallish woman in the bright white (easy target) t-shirt? why did these bad asses allow this loose cannon/unarmed woman to tag along? was it all just spontaneous mayhem? because the way they made a beeline for that particular barricaded door did not seem at all spontaneous to me.
so if it was organized in advance, what was that unarmed woman, air force veteran!- doing in the middle of it ... NOT ducking?
this is all very strange, just thinking out loud. not offering any conspiracy theories but something isn't making a lot of sense about the incident.