Bodycam: Pregnant woman accused of shoplifting shot by police

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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.

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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.

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

In this timeline, the edge is so far gone that it's faded into myth.

If this is a jurisdiction that says embryos are people then that cop executed a completely innocent person.

Shhh... don't point out their own hypocrisy

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

Same exact neck beard republican bitching is bitching about the injustice of arresting the good boys for Jan 6th.

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.

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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.

Which falls apart when you watch the cops body cam footage and see that never even happened

Or, you could deal with the issue when and where it arises? Seriously, some of the commenters here are trying to rewrite history.

She drove at a police officer dude.

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.

Is nit that she shop lifted, is that she tried to run over the officer

If she was trying to run him over, she did a really shitty job. The cop put himself in front of the vehicle and she turned her steering wheel the wrong direction and didn't slam the accelerator. I think if anything the cop was trying to be run over, not the other way around.

Its not about "doing a good job" or not. She had the intent. Its all it takes for an officer or even a person to defend themselfs

You're not getting it. He wasn't trying to defend himself, he was intentionally putting himself in a place of danger to justify murder in the name of defense.

Amazing how cops are put in that position. Putting yourself intentionally in a place of danger to do your job. We have to thank every single one of them

She clearly did not have intent. The cop just placed himself in front of the car. If he wasn't there she still would have driven forward. She didn't drive forward because he was there. It wasn't intent to run him over, it was intent to flee. The cop had intent to be in the cars path though.

“Yes, sir, officer sir! How many licks?”

How many items you took aithout paying?

I thought it wasn't about her shoplifting? Make up your mind.

Oh, I'm sorry. It's not about any of that, is it? It's just about whatever you need to excuse a government agent murdering an American citizen without a proper trial by jury.

Do us all a favor and never pretend you respect the United States Constitution ever again.

She clearly didn’t try to run him over though, so what’s it really about?

She does not have to.

You can clearly see her turn the wheel away from the officer, and she doesn't slam on the gas, she just accelerates at a normal speed. Not that that matters to you, you just love jacking off to pigs murdering people and don't want to question for one second how shoplifting and resisting arrest is supposed to justify murder

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