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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[–] 104 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (15 children)

Woman scared for her life because officers immediately pointed guns at her for no reason is proven correct when killed by officers for no reason. Just another day in America. Cops just love pulling their guns and using them for no good reason. The only time a cop should be pointing a gun at someone like this is if their life is in immediate danger from that person.

How would society feel if these weren't cops? If a guy just runs up to your car pointing a pistol at your head you aren't going to be calm and rational. It's bullshit we expect anyone to be.

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  • [+] -31 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    You can't justify her running from the cops, that was wrong but no where near as wrong as killing her for doing so

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I mean, I kinda can. We've all seen too many videos where police officers pull people out of cars in these situations, she was pregnant.... People of color end up dead on the ground outside of that car even if they did nothing wrong, all the time. Even more commonly they get thrown around and beaten. Pregnant woman don't normally want to get thrown around or beaten.

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  • [+] -20 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    OK, but what's plan B? Running from the police just makes them angrier.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I want to posit first that this is a satirical answer, and I am not encouraging this in the slightest, just that this might be the "cornered logic" equation that is given to suspects being confronted by police:

    Plan B: You whip out a pistol you bought from the gun store, shoot all of the cops that are about to shoot you, and drive off to go live in a different state so it's hard to follow you.

    I would hope and predict that most people committing petty crimes like shoplifting or drugs would not want to hurt anyone, much less a cop, but when that is THE ONLY answer you can give that has a strong chance of survival in the face of the articles everyone has seen, it begs the need for a different answer - one in which there is ZERO chance of a cop killing an unarmed person for petty crime, and attempted evasion of arrest for said petty crime.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    This incident is exactly why that's justified. Her life was in danger, that cop was clearly itching for a reason to kill her or he wouldn't have stepped in front of the car. She ran because it was probably her best chance of not getting killed

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    When the police are increasingly known and proven to kill people for next to no reason at all, it's quite difficult to blame a person for being afraid of them when confronted.

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  • [+] -42 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    when killed by officers for no reason

    Besides trying to run one of them over, you mean? Kinda leaving out some details here.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    You watch the video?... Cars get closer to killing me in a parking lot once a month or more. He easily moved out of the way after murdering her. The car was barely moving.

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  • [+] -32 points 3 years ago (3 children)