U.S. Government shuts down.

[eppie]

Meanwhile, the police shot and killed an unarmed women that was fleeing from them after she ran into a guard rail near the Capitol Building.

The reporting I have heard suggests she tried to ram down one of the gates with her car. She tried in various times and places to bypass the security fences, and led police on a high speed chase, before trying to flee on foot. That's when she was shot.

That doesn't sound like "ran into a guard rail." The video does not seem to suggest that this was some kind of random accident where security massively overreacted.

Which, if I am understanding correctly, makes your editorializing more than a little specious. "Peasants" visit the "palace" every day, and they get guided tours. They just don't usually try to ram the gates down then flee the cops.

-Jester

I also read some more now. The woman was shot by several police officers when she got out of the car UNARMED. Friends told media that she was suffering from a post-natal depression.

So yes she tried to crash some gates, but shooting an unarmed person is being your own judge, or lynching I don't know how you want to call it.
The hero's that shot this unarmed woman did such 'a good job' that it took a while to identify her because of all the blood and bullet holes.

In the US it has gotten so far that the only thing they care about is terrorism and so police officers (a group) feel the need to shoot several times an unarmed woman because they probably were scared of something.

What is say is: wrong job for you! If you are not able to analyze such a situation you should find another job.

It also makes the whole fleeing thing a lot more understandable.....whenever in the US the cops try to stop you just flee because you have a 9 out of 10 chance that they will start shooting at you.