U.S. Government shuts down.

[Jester]

And what do you mean with innocent or guilty? What are the charges? Well that doesn't matter too much anymore right because we already shot her.

This wasn't a criminal trial in which she was sentenced to death. It was an emergency situation where someone, who turned out to just be mentally ill (but this was not known at the time) tried to Dukes of Hazzard her way onto US government property, resisted arrest, sent a cop to the hospital, and nearly ran over a few more.

It would have been nice to have a trial, but as it stands, this was a reaction (overreaction, probably) to a perceived danger, not a carefully-weighed judgement about what was fair to her.

Of course, if they'd just have unarmed cops (my preferred solution) this wouldn't happen. But unarmed cops only make sense in a generally unarmed country.

Well because I want to compare this to the greenpeace activists that went to protest in Russia.

This is a ridiculous comparison. Unless the greenpeace protestors were trying to force their way into the Kremlin? Demonstrators are a known entity.

The key here is that the police had no idea who this woman was, or what she was doing. Maybe there was a bomb in that car. Maybe a rifle. Maybe she was trying to run some people over. Or maybe she just wanted to do donuts in front of the Congress. How would they have known? They had to play it by ear.

the government should not bother THEM too much in their everyday life but it is ok to shoot the poor fools.

I think the US government policy on mental illness is tragically poor, and I support vastly better support for mentally ill people, both medically and socially. But it is not "ok to shoot the poor folks." That's a caricature that misrepresents what happened. This woman was not shot for being mentally ill, since the police didn't even know she was mentally ill. She was shot for being a danger to others, an unknown entity apparently hell-bent on bashing down the gates of congress, and willing to run down cops if they got in her way. The vast (VAST) majority of mentally ill people do not do anything like this, and thus, are not shot.

-Jester