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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It's indeed not the job for the police to solve poverty and I'm sure this woman has her problems.
None of that excuses what happened. They should never have pulled their guns. That police officer should not have been standing in front of the car. The woman tried to run away, nit murder a cop. The officer was standing in the most dangerous nokace he could, I'm arguing that that was in purpose. "I'll stand where if you make a move you might kill me, giving me reason to shoot you"
Even that car not having license plates excuses anything. Then follow her, distantly. She'll stop somewhere, pick her up there.
Hell, even letting her go is preferable to this outcome. It doesn't matter that his woman had kids since she was 15, it's irrelevant. It doesn't matter that she is poor, uneducated, it's all irrelevant.
The point is that police in the US is horribly educated, and has a terrible culture. They need to be educated for years, not 6 months. They need to get a culture of "we are to protect and serve" instead of "we are Rambo Cowboy". They need to learn to calm and deescalate every situation they arrive in, not always make shit worse
I already said that they shouldn't have drawn weapons didn't I?
Your story about how they should follow her from a distant and stop her once she gets out is just fantasy. That's also not where the fault lies.
Her trying to run one over is vehicular assault at best. Yes. The police stood there on purpose. To make sure she didn't take off. That's fine. Dare I say common procedure in multiple countries, not just the US.
Pretty sure it's been stated everywhere that their education and work culture is a big problem. I agree. The police conduct that lead up to the shooting was poor. I agree.
The moment she tries to run one over. It was only going to end 1 way.
I'm agreeing with you in my first comment so I'm not sure what you're trying to argue.
It's reality in countries with police officers who had an actual education and training though. Let the "criminals" go for now, pick them up later. In this case, it would have saved two lives.
Yes, when it's deemed that approaching the criminal in public poses an imminent danger to the public.
Or if they have reason to believe that the Alleged shoplifting is organized, They might hold of to later follow them home and conduct a search of the home for evidence of more stolen items.
Are suggesting she's either a danger to the public or part of organized shoplifting?
Or when approaching a SUSPECT (she wasn't convicted of anything) causes danger to the suspect itself, for example.
Let's say that she is mentally ill, just to make the point. Are we going to do the same? Stand in front of the car, she gets a panic attack and just drives without thinking because of me tal illness. Are we going to shoot her too?
Oh wait, that is what is happening all the time in the USA where innocent civilians with mental illnesses are murdered by police because police in the US isn't trained to do their job right. This is actual realiti there.
Again, had these police officers been trained properly, she (and her unborn baby) would still be alive today.
This is not on her, this is on US police. Again.
The police should not have drawn weapons.
She should not try to run them over. Not sure why that's a controversial take for you.
Okay, question: are you okay with police shooting the mentally ill when they're having some episode? That, instead of controlling the situation and making sure that everyone gets out safely?
And if you're not, then why are you okay with them shooting a pregnant woman that likely got scared after they drew their weapons on her?
Did I say i thought this whole thing was ok?
Did I not explicitly say, multiple times. They shouldn't have had weapons drawn?
What you're being caught up on. Is her choosing to run an officer down and then be like woah..... they shot for that?
This woman was for all we know. Sane. She would have known that if you try to run over a cop. They're going to shoot you. Even if everything that lead up to that was the police mistake. She sealed her fate on her own with her last action. The police was wrong for handling the situation poorly. She was wrong for trying to run them over.
Let me put it this way for you. Think this sums up my feelings towards the situation:
I know that a semi-truck is supposed to, by law. Stop for me at a pedestrian crossing without lights. I have the right of way. That doesn't mean I'm just gonna go for it without looking. Because I don't want to die.
Is it the trucks fault for plowing through a pedestrian crossing and not seeing me? Yes.
Could I have also done something to prevent the situation? Yes.
I would say it's mostly my fault for not looking before crossing. Because I'm a fully functioning adult that knows i should look before crossing. I'm the one getting hurt by my own action.
If I'm in a car and there is a guy standing with a gun drawn and pointed at me... I might get scared and flee. That is not crazy, that is human behaviour.
If a police officer is stupid enough to stand in front of a car it kinda shoes his education and training level. Non existent. That is the entire problem.
Blame this woman all you want. I don't know of she stole from the store or not but it's irrelevant. She was shot because she was suspected of shoplifting. The woman and these police officers made all this happen together. The only difference is that the police officers are supposed to know better, they are supposed to know how to do their job, how to deescalate and they didn't.
The second they drew their guns they were wrong, they were escalating the situation. They could kmhave kept their guns holstered as they were in no danger. The girl got scared and wanted to run off. LET HER. you can catch her later, it's not as if she was a criminal mastermind. She did not deserve to die because of this
I really don't have anything more to add. You can stop strawmanning this into oblivion with statements I've already said I agree with.
I never said she deserved to die. I never said they were right to draw weapons. So I'm not sure why you keep pushing those points. For the 8:th time now. I agree.
I blame the cops for escalating the situation. I blame the woman for her last action of trying to run them over.
Two wrongs does not make a right.
If you see it differently that's ok. But don't go putting words into my mouth I never once said or hinted at.
I'm not sure what words I was putting in your mouth but from what you're saying er pretty much agree.
The woman may be a criminal (or not) and yeah, she should not have tried to escape though maybe she panicked with the guns, who knows. The police officers are very much in the wrong, they should not have been standing in front of the car, they should not have drawn their guns, they should have deescalated the situation.
Blocking the way of escape is common practise pretty much everywhere. Even here where I live, where police-school lasts for 2.5 years, rather than 6 months.
Oh I believe you that this is done everywhere in the US, and it shows.what other civilized country has so many cases of police shooting and killing people for tiny offenses?
It's again an extreme lack of training. You can just let them go and resolve the situation later, or do a list of other things than deciding to stand in front of the car and then claim your life was in danger because you were standing in front of the car...
This shit hardly ever happens in other countries, only in the US is this a multiple per day occurrence. Doesn't that make you think that US police officers should receive better training?
Mind you, the 6 months is in a good state, there are many way worse. And then there is the problem that many police officers get trained with pseudo science and outright bullshit. So if these police officers magically get 2.5 years of education, good on them. Of they stand in front of cars to block them, then I can already tell you want kind of education they get.
This is a nice source of information to get started https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_officer_certification_and_licensure_in_the_United_States