Please, do take note, that security personnel (sorry, no links to this, however I was told by a reliable source) are required to keep the safety of their guns on when pointing the weapon at any person(s). So, the safety was on, and any moves made on her part that would have led the police to believe that she was about to set off a bomb and/or run, would have equaled the safety switched, and a shot fired in either a fashion to disable her, or kill her. I won't say she's lucky to not have been shot, because that would be stating that she would have been unlucky to have been shot. I believe she would have had that coming, had she been that naive and oblivious.
I would like to state that if you were the police officer/security personnel, then you would have seen her from a distance of approximately fifty feet or so. So, from that distance and also note that the officer has probably never seen a real bomb before. Anything strapped to a person that looks remotely electronic and with that same person fiddling with something in their hand would, of course, bring about sudden alarm as to the fact that the officer has no clue if it is truly a bomb or not. It looks remotely like what a bomb looks like in movies, why not in real life (btw, that's what they think, I admit they can be incompetent, but your average civilian doesn't know how to tell the difference from a breadboard to a bomb. Sorry, but they're not all geeks and electronics-savvy)?
I must side with the police, as attempting to prevent any sort of threat to the civilians they are assigned to protect (in this case), must be taken to the highest degree. Anything that looks remotely dangerous and that could cause mass casualties must be detained and controlled. The first instinct in extreme situations - as that officer would believe to be, standing around fifty feet away, looking at a person with an unidentified electronic device strapped to them with something in their hand they can also not distinctly identify - is to control the extreme situation with extreme reaction; pulling the gun out, and attempting to control what was happening, so as to not bring harm to the people nor themselves.
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Please, do take note, that security personnel (sorry, no links to this, however I was told by a reliable source) are required to keep the safety of their guns on when pointing the weapon at any person(s). So, the safety was on, and any moves made on her part that would have led the police to believe that she was about to set off a bomb and/or run, would have equaled the safety switched, and a shot fired in either a fashion to disable her, or kill her. I won't say she's lucky to not have been shot, because that would be stating that she would have been unlucky to have been shot. I believe she would have had that coming, had she been that naive and oblivious. I would like to state that if you were the police officer/security personnel, then you would have seen her from a distance of approximately fifty feet or so. So, from that distance and also note that the officer has probably never seen a real bomb before. Anything strapped to a person that looks remotely electronic and with that same person fiddling with something in their hand would, of course, bring about sudden alarm as to the fact that the officer has no clue if it is truly a bomb or not. It looks remotely like what a bomb looks like in movies, why not in real life (btw, that's what they think, I admit they can be incompetent, but your average civilian doesn't know how to tell the difference from a breadboard to a bomb. Sorry, but they're not all geeks and electronics-savvy)? I must side with the police, as attempting to prevent any sort of threat to the civilians they are assigned to protect (in this case), must be taken to the highest degree. Anything that looks remotely dangerous and that could cause mass casualties must be detained and controlled. The first instinct in extreme situations - as that officer would believe to be, standing around fifty feet away, looking at a person with an unidentified electronic device strapped to them with something in their hand they can also not distinctly identify - is to control the extreme situation with extreme reaction; pulling the gun out, and attempting to control what was happening, so as to not bring harm to the people nor themselves.