I have some sympathy, but not nearly as much.

In one case, we have a person in their home town, caught up in a situation that was not of her own making.

Babbitt directly put herself in the situation of traveling to the capital, breaking in to it, ignoring direct and lawful orders from police officers, moving towards people that the police had every reason to believe were likely targets of violence, after once again physically breaking in to an area.

They're not really comparable situations, IMO. But I don't like people dying when it is avoidable.