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.
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.
They didn’t kill a pregnant woman over groceries, as the video shows. She was shot while attempting to run over a police officer.
He knew what he was doing. He intentionally put himself in harm’s way and escalated the situation. So fucking what if she ran? They have her tags, they can easily trace her vehicle and find her residence, and take action when it isn’t directly putting lives at risk.
Oh no, she got away with some groceries, big fucking deal. Better than murder.
Fuck that cop, and fuck your pitiful attempt at justifying this.
That is not what this video shows. This video shows a police officer who ran in front of a car and shot a pregnant woman over some groceries.
It’s exactly what the video shows. These gymnastics are an embarrassment to people that what police reform, you make is look like idiots.
If self awareness was a disease you’d be the healthiest person alive.
What are you even trying to say?
Obviously something too far beyond your meager comprehension.
Quit the platitudes, what am I not self-aware of?
A whole lot apparently.
Nothing apparently, since you can’t say anything of substance about it
Police reform in this case could be as simple as “don’t jump in front of a car over a gallon of milk.”
An absolutely essential part of police work is to de-escalate situations. If someone is acting erratically and pose a potential danger they’re supposed to be trained to calm them down, control the situation, and get it under control with minimal use of force. In America the work of the police is, to be fair, made harder by the fact that firearms are everywhere - situations can escalate very quickly.
However, if what starts as a pregnant lady shoplifting ends with you shooting her dead, chances are you did not do a very good job de-escalating the situation. Rather on the contrary - you escalated it a whole fucking lot.
This has nothing to do with any functional notion of police work. This is just state sponsored terror.
Clearly wasn’t trying to run over him, was clearly fleeing.
The car was moving very slowly. The cop had a choice. Get out of the way and arrest her later, or go straight to extra-judicial execution. He made the wrong choice.
He could just not stand in front of the car. Write down the license plate and let her go. Or just let her go. Better than killing someone.
No license plate on the car, the thief came prepared.