Another senseless shooting that led to a young black woman being killed, along with her unborn child. Two surviving children left without a mother. Going by the bodycam footage, she looks terrified. Nobody deserves to lose their life over such a trivial incident.
I assume there's a procedures in these situations that doesn't involve standing in front of car and driver
They regularly gun down white and Hispanic people too. If a person of any race refuses to exit their vehicle and then drives a car at a police officer, they're more than likely getting shot.
Just curious about the procedure here. Does shooting a driver make them hit the brakes and stop the vehicle? If true, I didn't know this.
All of these incidents have an escalation leading to a reaction. Cop asked her to stop and get out of the car. She decides no, I'll drive at them to take off. The cause is evident for all to see in most of these incidents. The narrative is always framed around the heavy handed cops going over the top, most interactions could be easily diffused by following direction.
2 Simple questions.
If she obeyed the legal request by the other officer to open the door/window would the outcome have been different?
If she didn't illegally drive her vehicle at an armed police officer carrying out his duty would the outcome have been different?
I know you're all about cops in America being racist etc etc but sometimes it's nothing to do with that. Sometimes it is.
In a split second decision, when someone is driving a lethal weapon at you, you do what you can to stop the threat. That's policing.
The moral is, when police are questioning you, don't drive a car at them.
Yeah really,
The cop put himself in the situation to shoot,he was in zero danger,he went looking for a kill and he got two .
Presumably the cop didn't follow procedure by standing in front of the car in this situation
Really?
So if your standing in front of a car, and someone drives it straight towards you, you don't think that it is justified to stop the threat?
This would happen in Ireland if someone drive a car at an armed police officer. They stopped the threat.
perhaps she could have got out of the vehicle and spoke with police officers? Pretty sure it could have been avoided. Drive a car at an armed police officer, expect to be stopped.
I'm not saying it isn't a terrible incident, it really is, but it could have been avoided very easily
So is a cop with a 9mm pistol.
There was zero justification for shooting of this pregnant woman.
I never said shooting an unarmed pregnant woman was reasonable.
I said shooting someone who is driving a car towards a police officer seems reasonable.
A car is a deadly weapon
What part of shooting an unarmed pregnant woman is anywhere reasonable for crying out loud
Or, it's the shooting of a suspect that drove their car at police.
Colour of anyone's skin is not important
No, the racism is on the part of the American police when they regularly gun down black people like this.
Not an important part of the story
Shooting a shoplifter seems over the top, shooting someone who drives a car at a police officer seems reasonable.
It's a material fact
What has the color of the cops got to do with it?? That is Racism.
This isn't a mass shooting,
It's a single shooting of an unarmed pregnant woman and her unborn child by white cops
It is usually someone who disobeys a legitimate Law enforcement request, Stay in the Vehicle, Show me your hands, Stop etc. George Floyd was an exception.
I was stopped one time while driving in the US. Followed a friends advice. Before the officer approached from behind my left shoulder I rolled down the window and I put my hands on top of the steering wheel, fingers spread. This helps the officer relax because he /she now knows I don't have a gun pointed through the door at him. It is a very simple thing to do, anything to deescalate the situation. When he asked for my license I said " it is in my wallet in my back right pocket, may I reach back for it?" It can be that simple.
Windows up, scream at the officer and attempt to drive across them usually has bad results.
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