Yes. I've seen the video.
In my opinion, there were other situations where lives were threatened and should have justified lethal force being used. Several police officers were facing life-threatening situations, too.
Frankly, a few dead insurrectionists would have been useful "pour encourager les autres" during that violent craziness. As occurred when Ashli Babbit was shot, the rest nearby would have found somewhere else to be and something else to do had someone shot someone who was threatening the life of someone protecting the Capitol.
That mob was a present lethal threat to every elected official in the Capitol building, and those defending them. Our police are very quick to end the lives of people of color on the least pretense. Some of that willingness to shoot should have been in place on January 6. Had a few shots been fired in a lethal way, the insurrection would have ended far more quickly, I'm certain.
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