From the photo, there seems to have been a substantial-thickness concrete wall and then a brick wall. Obviously, they were still not enough, but it wasn’t just a brick wall.
And about the wooden shelves: So what? They are not security relevant or customer facing, they just need to work as shelves.
There’s talk on reddit about another more close-up video that shows him getting hit in the carotid artery.
That’s pretty bad. I don’t like Charlie Kirk at all, but him getting shot is going to rile up the right into a fierce frenzy. This will get dangerous, and will make the situation even worse.
Posts in public forums are very often made for the sake of just about anybody reading the thread, not just the person they are directly responding to.
Money quote from the article:
For its part, Russia had largely shrugged off Mr. Trump’s previous 50-day deadline, noting that past deadlines set by Mr. Trump or his team had come and gone with little consequence.
It’s not like Putin hasn’t tried that…