The shooting was unjustified. I also notice there's an extreme bias in the media about this.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/mainstream-lawlessness-trump-dc-riots-inexcusable-unrest-police
The media went out of its way in 2020 to paint sometimes-violent protests across the nation as mostly "peaceful," but finally came around on Wednesday to the notion that mayhem and anarchy is always unacceptable – all it took was Trump supporters causing the chaos to spark a swift change of heart.
Anyway, glad Trump's days in office are dwindling.
90% of shootings in the US are unjustified. This is not one of them. Mostly because it was the last line of defense and if the security had not shot, the rest of the rioters would have followed, outnumbering the security personal in a close area. Or in other words: There would have been either a mass shooting or the breach of defense.
Not to mention, this was about the most predictable there is where the person did not fire first. If you try to climb over a barricade where people with drawn weapons are protecting someone important - it would be a surprise if they don't shoot even in Bhutan.
Trump's apology was a little scattershot to say the least.
Am I the only one annoyed by journalists' editorialising of Trump pieces? This is from The Guardian's blog:
More than 24 hours after he incited a violent mob to attack the US Capitol in support of his unconstitutional efforts to overturn the presidential election, Donald Trump finally conceded that “a new administration will be inaugurated on January 20” and promised a “smooth, orderly and seamless” transfer of power.
The video statement was posted on Twitter, one of the only social media platforms to which the president still has access following his unprecedented and egregious encouragement of rioters bent on insurrection.
None of the bolded should have been written.
As much as Trump's actions are deplorable, and as much as the bolded segments are well-justified comments, they are still comments.
News reporting should avoid personal commentary. It is a matter of self-restraint and intellectual honesty.
While this is certainly with a bit of POV, it also certainly is an objective description. Even the "finally" - was there ever a president before that took that long in a clear case?
If you take out the POV completely, you end up with "People entered the capitol while being ordered not to do it. They destroyed property. One was shot."
It's an accurate description, but it does not tell you what happened, what it was about.
Pence is considering how his actions over the next week will be remembered for centuries to come.
I'll bet the last thing he wants is to knife the messiah and take the Presidency right now in the middle of this shitshow. The target on his back from the Trumpists isn't going to get smaller if he does that. They'll be after him for the rest of his life.
Damn, I wanted to end this with some famous poetry, but the english translations garble it up too much, so take my translation:
Die ich rief, die Geister
werd ich nun nicht los
The spirits that I called
I cannot shake me free.