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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[–] 84 points 3 years ago (32 children)

I mean, could he not just have taken the license plate number then sent agents to go knock on her door later? This is shoplifting, not armed robbery.

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  • [+] 24 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)
  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Driving a car without plates is extremely common in this area. It has been ever since they suspended registration requirements during Covid. I see multiple cars without plates every time I go for a drive.

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  • [+] 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    This area doesn't have tolls or red light cameras.

    Dealers don't submit paperwork for you to get plates unless you pay extra for the service. Otherwise you get a 45 day temporary tag.

    If you buy used in a private sale, then you get nothing. You have to go buy plates. There is no transfer of plates between private parties in Ohio when doing a private sale.

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  • [+] -65 points 3 years ago (23 children)

    She drove forward with the officer directly in front of the vehicle. Regardless of what happened previously, thats an action that could kill someone.

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  • [–] 48 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    Isn't it kinda stupid of the police officer to put himself in that dangerous position. He could just as well have let her go and find her later or follow her. Trying to stop a car by standing in front of it is imo. just stupid and unprofessional.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago

    US cops are the kind to pull out a guy's multitool, fold out the knife, put it in the guy's hand, grab their hand and hold it at their own throat.

    Then waiting for them to twitch, so they can shoot them dead.

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  • [+] -36 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    Standing in front of the car wasn't a smart thing to do, I agree with you there. "Let her go and find her later" isn't really how it works though.

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  • [–] 51 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    This exactly how it works in normal countries. She was not robing a bank she was just shop lifting. You get the license plates and invite her to court some time later.

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  • [+] -48 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Nah, you don't get to just drive away from the police anywhere, sorry. Most would use less lethal means to stop her, but I don't think any competent force would just let her leave.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 years ago

    Can't speak for anywhere else, but can speak for personal experience, here in Italy "take the license plate" or "get in the police car and follow her" would be our procedure. She has not pulled out a weapon, and law enforcement is not supposed to escalate anything, ever. (Exceptions might apply, poorly trained officers exists). Even if she pulled a gun, probably we'd just try to evacuate everyone in the area and call for reinforcements before thinking of pulling out our firearms.

    On average we get 5 police deaths in a year out of about 300-350 thousands agents, so I guess it works well enough.

    (and yes, I do realize that in US there's a lot of armed and trigger happy civilians, but that's just another issue to solve. If a civilian needs a gun for self protection , there's something really really wrong with society in my opinion)

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

    Nor would any competent force give an ultimatum of "stop or die" over a trivial crime. Most countries would get in their car and try to follow safely, if that wasn't possible you run the plates and send a summons. A hand should never be near a gun in this situation.

    There's no defending this.

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  • [+] -28 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I'm not defending this so much as pointing out the absolute nonsense some people in this thread are spewing.

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  • [–] 44 points 3 years ago

    The cop deliberately walked in front of her car and pointed a gun at her. She panicked. I'd probably panic too if someone pointed a gun at me. Granted, I probably wouldn't have drove forward, but it was entirely possible for the cop to not have walked in front of her car, for him not to have pulled a gun. It seems like him pulling the gun is what caused this.

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

    Flooring it at someone, yes. Slowly moving forward and turning away, not so much.

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  • [+] -38 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    You can definitely kill someone by slowly driving over them

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  • [+] -38 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

    Yeah probably not the best to drive at police. Amazed that even needs to be said and isn't obvious to most people

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  • [+] -49 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Man, there's some cooked people in here.

    You could murder an officer in cold blood and they'd find a way to justify it.

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  • [–] 45 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    You say that in a thread about a woman murdered by an officer in cold blood. Wow.

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  • [+] -40 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Having someone trying to run you over isn't "in cold blood"

    Good grief.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago

    Except that guy isn't dead. The woman is. The cop has plenty of opportunities to do a really big part of his job, de-escalate, rather than do the opposite, position himself in front of her vehicle and immediately point a gun at her. He went right for the death threat and almost immediately delivered.

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