Somehow this is the only country on earth where this seems to happen. When talking about shootings involving guns, okay, fine, the US is certainly an outlier there, but every country has cars and police.

This is murder.

  • @Lord_McAlister@lemmy.world
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    So some neckbeard republicans are going to come out and say “She should have just complied”, but honestly what is the absolute worst scinerio if she WAS shop-lifting? In what world is it not a better option to just get her FUCKING CAR’S license-plate number, track her to her house, then arrest her there when she’s clearly cornered? Or just boot her car when it’s found again and force her to come to you to get it off?

    Because now you’ve killed a woman and her unborn baby over some God damn groceries.

    • sab
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      The headline “Pregnant lady caught shoplifting groceries; arrested” would already be telling of a society that has gone far over the edge.

    • @sndmn@lemmy.ca
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      If this is a jurisdiction that says embryos are people then that cop executed a completely innocent person.

      • Cethin
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        3910 months ago

        That would require logical consistency. I would never accuse a republican of such a thing.

      • SaltySalamander
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        She should have complied for sure, but non-compliance shouldn’t mean execution by firing squad.

        • Chetzemoka
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          Sorry, I’m just gonna repeat that for the folks in the back…

          NONCOMPLIANCE SHOULDN’T MEAN EXECUTION BY FIRING SQUAD

      • Cethin
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        3010 months ago

        I pretty sure she drove her car into a wall because she was bleeding to death. I don’t think that was really a decision.

      • snooggums
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        2510 months ago

        Probably thought they were going to kill her anyway, since cops be doing that on the regular.

      • @tryingtimes@lemmus.org
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        1810 months ago

        she should have just complied,

        I’m surprised there isn’t an automod bot to filter out cliche comments exactly like this

    • @Katana314@lemmy.world
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      410 months ago

      What I want to do is make a satirical video game about complying perfectly with a police officer’s requests, and show just how hard it is.

      Throw in mixups where the player might be confronted by armed criminals, just to make sure players instill themselves with a sense of self-preservation.

    • @KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.ml
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      410 months ago

      The argument will be that she was trying to use her car as a deadly weapon because she accelerated into an officer standing in front of the car.

      • @Lord_McAlister@lemmy.world
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        1510 months ago

        She drove away from a police officer who intentionally stepped out in front of the car.

        Also that’s some grade a level hypocrisy right there.