You're right. Better to be shot on the spot.
Better to die like a man than a slaughter sheep, if possible.
But she wouldn't have died if she hadn't have had a gun to start shooting at the cops with. Just pointing out the irony is all.
Don't be too sure of that.
In Denver, an elderly man, Frank Lobato, was shot and killed by policeman Ranjan Ford in his bed because he was holding a can of Pepsi when police burst into his home and bedroom.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/3519766/detail.htmlAlso in Denver, a developmentally disabled 15 year old, Paul Childs, was shot four times and killed by policeman James Turney because he failed to put down a kitchen knife he was holding when Turney ordered him to do so. Paul's family believe that Paul failed to understand the command and that he posed no imminent deadly threat to anyone. Paul was inside the house behind a screen door and the policemen were outside. James Turney had brought Paul home before when he had wandered away and knew of his condition. Also, there were several policemen armed with Tasers which they had drawn on the scene but Turney fired his revolver four times into Paul Childs anyway.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/2558560/detail.htmlIn the same neighborhood, James Turney also shot and killed another disabled teenager, Gregory Smith, Jr. six months before because the teenager was hearing impaired and did not hear him telling him to put down his pocket knife. In this case, Gregory was at the bottom of a stairwell and James Turney was at the top, out of knife range.
http://www.deaftoday.com/news/archives/003968.htmlTurney was suspended for ten months, but the police protested his suspension, saying that he was justified in killing the two children.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/3018685/detail.html