A man starts firing a gun in an apartment building, nearly hitting a woman and her two small children while cooking dinner. Police respond, hear more gunfire, and spend hours trying to talk Tekle Sundberg into surrendering, even bringing his father along to talk his son out of the standoff. Police take a dozen shots at incapacitating the man with “less than lethal” rounds, and then finally snipers end the standoff with fatal shots that kill Sundberg.

Did police abuse their power? Black Lives Matter organizers think so and organized a demonstration outside of the apartment building yesterday. They got a counter-demonstration in response — from the woman whose children came under Sundberg’s fire:

What started as a rally for a man shot and killed by Minneapolis Police quickly took a turn after the mother of two nearly hit by bullets while inside her apartment showed up to share her story on Saturday afternoon.

Arabella Yarbrough was cooking food for her children Wednesday night when she says Tekle Sundberg fired bullets into their home, nearly hitting them. Police responded and helped Yarbrough escape when according to police, Sundberg also fired at officers. That led to a six-hour standoff outside the building that lasted until MPD snipers killed the 20-year-old early the next morning.

“I literally had five minutes to live while he had six hours to choose life or death. The police stated they did not want to kill him,” Yarbrough told Fox 9.

She confronted activists at a protest for Sundberg and against police violence on Saturday. A Fox 9 news crew was at the scene.

Yarborough took offense at the protest, and made sure everyone knew it. “This is not a George Floyd situation” she declared, telling protesters to go home. “This is not OK!”

“My kids have to deal with this and probably have a mental illness now because they almost lost their lives,” she said. “There’s bullet holes in my kitchen because he sat in the f–king hallway watching me move. He tried to kill me in front of my kids.

“I have black children; I am a woman of color!” Foss-Yarbrough, who is of black, white and Native descent, then yelled.

“If I would have lost my life, would you guys do this for me?”

Good question. Does BLM routinely protest intracommunity violence, or only law enforcement-related violence? I think we know the answer to that — and Yarbrough certainly knows it herself. That was an entirely rhetorical question.

And we know this by some of the responses Yarborough got that are clearly heard in this videos. Instead of acknowledging that Sundberg was a real and active threat to her and the other residents in the building, they scoffed at her protest. “You’re alive!” shouted one, while another shouted, “Shut up!” Yet another one scolded Yarbrough that “this is not the time or the place,” which is rather ironic considering the circumstances.

An investigation is underway to see whether the use of force was justified, and we should wait to see what evidence emerges from the body cams, radio traffic, and the forensic evidence. However, as Yarborough herself put it, she and her kids had about five minutes to live before police arrived, and Sundberg had six hours to make that choice for himself. If this is the hill BLM wants to defend, they’d better be prepared to lose even more credibility than they have lost over the last couple of years of rising crime rates and economic degradation from their “defund the police” efforts.