Sure those are possibles. On the other hand, the officer also believed he was facing a life and death defense situation - protecting himself and the elected officials behind him from a violent mob BREAKING IN chanting "kill Pence" and the like.
One unarmed woman standing outside a partially broken window with three armed cops inside just waiting to fire on the first person to enter the building is not exactly the stuff of a "life and death" struggle.
Your hyperbole is absurd but I'm sure that's the way you like it. Think what you are saying: ONE unarmed woman...THREE fully armed cops. Who is a threat to whom?
What do you mean "half open"? It was smashed and broken by a mob. Half open sounds like...well, you know, just letting in a little fresh air. That mob, was crowding in behind her.
How would the cop know she was unarmed given she was already breaking the law by breaking in and ignoring orders to stop?
Half sounds like half to me. Not a slightly cracked open window.
It's still not a barrier that can be easily overcome in a flash.
Thee cops with arms drawn vs. one woman who has yet to brandish her weapon you claim she might have
but cannot show because she has no gun to brandish.
Think how stupid your claims are. If she was waving a gun around that would be a justification for Byrd to murder her possibly.
But she was not because she had no gun yet Byrd murdered her in cold blood anyway.
You make it sound like it was 3 cops and 1 woman, which you know isn't true. She was part of a mob.
She was at a broken window. Not the people behind her. How many people came streaming
through the window after Babbitt was shot through the neck? Stop rationalizing cold blooded murder.
There are always a lot of options in hindsight - AFTER the danger is past, when all the information is before you - that you don't know in the moment while this mob is roaming the capitol looking for politicians and assaulting, wounding police attempting to hold them back.
Armchair quarterbacks...always the best.
The options were always there. Tell me what mob was roaming the halls of the Capitol assaulting and
wounding police officers. Name the officers they attacked...except you can't because you are lying
your ass off! You're a disgraceful liar! Period!
Wow. First time I ever heard of a violent mob, that injured 140 police, some with permanent injuries, one dead compared to a shoplifter. Yet another failure of Reality to dock with Trumplandia.
No one died due to injuries received from protestors. NO ONE! Another lie.
We do know Ashli Babbitt died due to Officer Byrd, however.
And how many police were injured? You'd better document that, knowing how you love to lie.
Oh I don't need to think about it. I suspect the other two cops were busy holding off the rest of the mob, the ones who DID listen to orders to stop.
Maybe you should think about it. While Michael Leroy Byrd was drawing a bead on Babbitt's neck
where was the mob that the two other officers were supposedly holding back?
See if you can explain that, without lying, I mean. But you can't.