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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I love threads like this where I get to read all the insane takes from the armchair cops. You have the benefits of knowing all the after-the-fact details and not needing to make a split-second decision, so you think it's just so simple to take your preferred course of action. No, the police are not bloodthirsty murderers who look for any excuse to kill a civilian, but you paint them that way in your head to justify your hatred of them.

Absolutely bat shit insane take. There is so much video evidence disproving that. Most cops in America are bad people, either directly or indirectly through lack of action. ACAB

Sure, why not take the handful of stories you read every day about bad cops, then extrapolate way outside that range and confidently declare that "most cops in America are bad people", which is 1) subjective, and 2) stated without evidence?

The cops performing their jobs without getting into trouble don't make the news.

Why aren't those cops who don't get into trouble (that doesn't mean they aren't doing bad things, by the way) doing anything about the cops that are? Doesn't that make them complicit?

Those "good" cops stand by and do nothing while watching the bad cops be bad. Even if they aren't going out and hurting people they are part of the problem by enabling that behavior.

whoa there with the most part. You probably haven't even met or read about even .001% of the cops here. I am no fan of the type of person who is driven to be a cop, but they usually aren't inherently bad. Some get that way after having to deal with the scum the courts let back out onto the streets, which usually by the way isn't the scums fault they are scum... shotty upbringing because parents are trying to make ends meet does that. His take is certainly leaning heavy blue. But you don’t have to dive in the other direction to counter it. Take the high road.

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Buddy. This was because someone shoplifted.

The way you talk makes it seem like every cop in the field would have had to draw a gun on this woman. That’s laughable.

Or you could not put your body in front of a car as a means to stop it? Maybe don’t intentionally put yourself in harms way, giving you an excuse to murder?

That was foolish, certainly, but it doesn't in any way justify trying to run someone over.

Except she steered as hard to the side as possible and was going super slow. Doesn't really seem like trying to run someone over to me.

No, the police are not bloodthirsty murderers who look for any excuse to kill a civilian

gets in front of car

pulls out gun

"GET OUT OF THE CAR"

shoots

SHE WAS TRYING TO RUN ME OVER

the police are not bloodthirsty murderers who look for any excuse to kill a civilian

Anyways, this is just a bunch of racist trolls.

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