I'm starting to read speculation that the shot was an unintentional discharge by a nervous officer with his finger on the trigger. Looking at the videos...hard to say definitively if that was an intentional shot or not, IMHO.
As for now, I'm staying off social media, and any other discussions of this.
I'm reading lefties saying that the Cap Police are complicit in this invasion, and should have been firing on the crowd as soon as the first barricade was crossed.
I read one admitted communist spouting that every person there should be tried and convicted of treason, hung in gallows on the Mall, and their corpses left to rot. He advocated for the entire Capital police force to be tried as co-conspirators for "allowing this to happen" and hung alongside the protesters.
I'm reading a lot of "if they were black" comments, comparing the lack of violence by the police here to the violence during the summer BLM riots.
I'm reading some conservative acquaintances saying "maybe there is a need for police reform given this violent attack on peaceful protesters at the capital."
Nothing I could say to any of these people means a damned thing anyways...