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The title looks like it's trying to imply that the thiefs specifically targeted her, when the article makes it more clear that they likely just tried to steal the car not knowing it was from the Secret Service.
Gotta add that clickbait for the views 🙄
smaller detail has to stay on task--protecting their charge, not chasing down suspects that are no longer an immediate threat. others will do the hunting.
The immediate goal is to protect. They aren't going to chase them down. MPD is going to find these guys almost certainly.
where in the article does it say that democrats are being targeted? In addition, I feel user Ragdoll is correct that the title makes it seem worse that the situation actually was (though I guess there isn't an easier way to write the title), the SUV was not occupied when the criminals tried to break in. If you're targeting someone, you probably at least have an idea of who should be inside and whether they just stepped out of the vehicle or stepped in. I doubt the vehicle literally said Biden or "Biden's family inside" so I doubt it was a group of people walking around, and taking the opportunity to attack Biden or his family. In addition, the article indicates that car jacking have increased 40% in the area, so it really seems like it was a random car jacking.
I kind of think the bigger story is, why were Secret Service shooting at suspects trying to enter an empty vehicle? Unless there were firearms in the vehicle, feels a bit excessive to potentially kill 1 to 4 people over a car break in where no one's life was in direct danger.
Maybe there's more missing details that clear up the story so we'd have to wait and see.
Someone can correct me if I am wrong, isn't law enforcement taught to shoot first and then maybe ask questions later?
No no no, you're thinking of the Army. The police are trained to shoot first, cover up the shooting, find/make up past crime the victim did to justify the shooting, get acquitted by a grand jury, and receive a full pension later.
No. There's, generally speaking, rules if engagement.
Why did they shoot at someone trying to enter an empty vehicle?
Maybe from a security perspective the position is that they assume anyone trying to get into a vehicle they are protecting is intending to harm the occupants, even if the occupants are not in the vehicle and the perps don’t know that.
No but thats still, you're not protecting anyone you're just shooting
I don’t disagree. However, I’m not the SS.
They were probably pointing their guns at them and one of them turned around to face them way too quickly.
Sad thing is, it probably would have generated as many hits if the headline was more open. I mean that’s freaking hilarious in a morbid way - that the would be thieves just happened to pick the wrong car to try and steal.
The new and improved bait car with active defenses!
How would you have written it?
Not OP
Secret Service agents protecting Biden’s granddaughter open fire when 3 people pick the wrong SUV to streal.
Secret Service Fires Shots at Car Thieves
But we don't do non sensationalist headlines anymore.
That implies that there was a right SUV to steal.
You just made me realize that the original headline doesn't specify that the SUV is where the granddaughter is. You also make that mistake.
I think we can do better. Let's see:
Secret Service open fire at thieves who unknowingly attempted to break into SUV carrying Biden's granddaughter.
And I still think we can do better, but right now I'm le tired.
The vehicle was empty, it wasn't carrying anyone.
Ah, serves me right for not reading TFA.
In that case I would have simply written what @[email protected] wrote in this very thread.
Yet here you are.
Pathetic child.