Report clears U.S. in friendly fire incident

[Jazzman]

I read it as stating that when the car reached 65 yards from the checkpoint and hadn't stopped the soldiers then made the decision to use lethal force. Judgment and reaction times have to be taken into account. The car is closing - it hits the 65 yard threshold - the soldiers decide to use lethal force - weapons are aimed to kill - shots are fired - bullets strike. This all doesn’t happen instantly while the car is suspended at 65 yards. I’m sure that it closed significantly with the checkpoint before it was hit, regardless of how the article words it.



It seems like there is a lot of desire to somehow pin this on the US soldiers. There was all the discussion and argument before, and now, after the official report is released stating that the soldiers are clear and followed procedure, the arguments are with the minutiae of timing and physics, seemingly in order to discredit the report. I don’t get it. Why can’t it just be that this woman endangered herself and others and got someone killed? Why the need to pin the blame on US soldiers?