Bodycam: Pregnant woman accused of shoplifting shot by police
cnn.com
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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She got shot over driving at a police officer standing in front of her car. The fact that it escalated to that is a pretty bizarre series of events though.
Framed differently, a cop moved in front of her car for an excuse to shoot her. He could just as easily NOT have moved in front of the car and/or have taken a step back like any normally functioning human being would have done.
You're not wrong, but it's still dishonest to say she was "shot for shoplifting".
she was
You're right, turns out she was shot for not shoplifting.
Shoplifting is not a death sentence. Driving away from police is illegal, but not a death sentence. She's trying to leave? Fine, step to the side, take her plate number, and put out a warrant. At no time was it necessary for him to pull out his gun.
See, people are even defending it. Truly and absolutely fucked fucked fucked.
I don't think /u/Ilovethebomb was trying to defend it. He's just adding context. She didn't only get shot for shoplifting. The shoplifting initiated an interaction with the police that escalated. She started driving away and the cops tried to physically stop the car with their bodies. So one of the cops panicked and shot.
Of course there are many issues - why were the cops pointing guns at her in the parking lot while she was in the car? Certainly didn't help with de-escalation. I hope the cop who fired the shot and is under investigation gets criminal charges.
She didn't steal anything. The cop stepped toward the direction she was steering. He even stepped forward as she was attempting to "run him over".
Why was officer dumbass standing in front of a moving car?
In his head, that was his tiananmen square moment
Dead tiananmen square students still received more of an education than this cop.
Sounds like that officer hates unborn babies
Your take is scummy and delusional. I don't envy the world you've constructed around you that's so blind and ignorant towards reality
OK cop