1. She climbed up into the window and was "armed" with a mob (disparity of force)
2. She ignored commands issued by a law enforcement officer who was pointing his weapon at her to not proceed
3. She nor anyone else on the other side of the door were entitled to breach the door because obviously a decision had been made that this barricade was their last line of defense and that to allow them past this barricade, the officers would then lose any advantage they held as they would soon be outnumbered. If the law enforcement officers were injured or killed then that would leave those they were protecting unguarded/unprotected and at the mercy of the mob.
Who are you going to protect, people you know, who you see on a regular basis as part of your protection duties and whom it is your JOB to protect?
OR someone you don't know who has been activity attempting to break into the area where you have instructed your charges to take shelter while you attempt to hold the mob off?
"...When a group or
mob of attackers are present, all members of the mob shall share in the jeopardy for the fear that the mob has caused. In other words, If attacked by three individuals and you shoot at the attacker closest to you but miss and hit his cohort behind him, your actions will be viewed as justified because all members of the mob are acting as a single unit.
From vol 1 of Warren on Homicide by Oscar Leroy Warren and Basil Michael Bilas, section 148 page 642, “Where several are apparently preparing to join in an attack on defendant,
his right of self-defense extends to each participant". Also see
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA v . E. H. FOLEY Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, published Nov 13, 1945. Also see
Seeley v. State where "...it was held that in a criminal case involving self-defense, the jury should have been instructed that where a defendant was in danger of losing his life or suffering great bodily harm from more than one assailant, acting together, that defendant had a right to defend against all assailants." -- It is important to note that protesters and or those involved in rioting that are lying in the street in order to block a drivers escape from a violent mob attack are in fact part of the mob and therefore share in the jeopardy for the fear that the mob has caused. In many cases, but not all, drivers fleeing a riot
are not being charged for driving over obstacles (people) blocking their escape."
United Association of Personal Defense Instructors - Self-Defense, Use of Force and Deadly Force