Even in cases where a suspect is barricaded in a home and has someone hostage, there’s a very real risk of harm to the victim. It’s a miracle when nobody gets hurt, but noone can predict the outcome.

I can predict that a bunch of yahoos opening fire irresponsibly into a hostage situation is cartoon levels of stupid that will lead to outcomes that are “undesirable”.

In this case it is compounded by the fact she was told to walk towards the cops and while doing so was killed. There is no feasible explanation on the actions of the cops, and since you replied to my question with further damnation by saying “they may not have been aware if there was a danger or not.” we can clearly put this down as a boondoggle at best.

A more long term issue is the more and more of these crappy cop reactions to almost any situation happen and are shared, when does it become rational to open fire on cops preemptively? If you are just as likely to get killed by following directions then why not try and take a few with you?

This will not end well for anyone, and the more people make piss poor excuses for poor police behaviour the worse it will be.