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She didn't merely die, she was unarmed and murdered by Capitol Police. They shot her in the neck.

[..] while storming one of the most important institution of your democracy doing one if its most important duties.

Was she lawfully there? She was climbing through a hole in a door where she and her fellow agressors just smashed a glass pane. Did she have a bomb in her backpack? (Probably not, but hey, others have been killed for less...)

> She was climbing through a hole in a door

Source for this? I have looked at the videos and read multiple articles and can’t find anything saying or showing what happened prior to her being shot, or even showing who shot her.

This tweet links to another tweet, but the linked twitterer has now been suspended: https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/status/1346951966203629570

This bot downloaded the video: https://twitter.com/this_vid/status/1346973985737732097 (2nd video in the URL mentioned in that tweet).

Edit: OK, what she was doing before she climbed through: https://twitter.com/SP_Longie/status/1346952013532184576

I saw the video before it was deleted. She went up into the broken window to cross through to the other side where the police were holding their position and was immediately shot. It was chaos in that hallway.

"She should have just complied."

...is what they would say if she were black. Instead, she was white, and was seditiously tresspasing on secure, federal property as part of an insurrection riot.

> She didn't merely die, she was unarmed and murdered by Capitol Police. They shot her in the neck.

I hope Trump is held responsible for the death his actions resulted in.

I wonder if there’s a concept similar to “felony murder” in a case like this? (If you rob a bank and a security guard shoots a bystander, you get charged with murder.)

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