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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[+] -61 points 3 years ago (23 children)

Trying to run over an officer, you mean? She didn't just try and run away, she drove directly towards a police officer.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    If only cops weren't rooted to the ground and could jump out of the way of a car...

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  • [+] -20 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    It would be ideal if she didn't try and kill him in the first place though.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Always interesting that people demand average citizens behave more reasonably than so-called trained police. It's like you accept the presumption that any cop is likely to overreact in murder, therefore the onus is on US not to escalate situations. Interesting how the apologists don't think cops bear any responsibility for de-escalation.

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  • [+] -11 points 3 years ago (4 children)
  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    You're being disingenuous Monday morning qb'ing. Police are supposedly trained in de-escalation. I am not excusing the behavior, but I can understand a random untrained citizen having fear and unpredictable bad decision-making in a situation like this. Whereas the cops absolutely have countless other things they could do that are calmer and more de-escalating.

    Ultimately, basic theft isn't worth death. The problem is that cops have unilaterally decided it is completely unacceptable to not listen to them, up to death. They could have followed her. They could have let her go. There are numerous alternatives that could have happened. Cops in America have endlessly shown they are trigger happy twitchy and rushing to escalate.

    The burden is on trained police to behave better than a random person does. This doesn't excuse her behavior. But the cops are NOT justified either.

    I understand this nuance is lost on most.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    This doesn't excuse her behavior. But the cops are NOT justified either.

    You're far more level headed than most of the commenters here. Yeah, the police could definitely have handled this better as well.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    Given your capacity for intelligence you're probably below the max IQ limit for hiring US cops, you should apply, you get to shoot innocent unarmed civilians for misdemeaner crimes while pretending that your own life threatening actions were their fault and you still get the advantage of other braindead troglodytes like yourself defending your murder of a non shoplifter for non compliance, for a crime with no death penalty.

    Judge Dredd wasn't a guidebook on policing you deranged bootlicking homunculus.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    You keep saying that. "Trying to run over ". No fucking way you could convince me that she wanted to run over that cop! If she wanted him dead, why didn't she just punch it? Floor the peddle and turn the wheel toward him.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Don't they spend like 1000 hours training people about all the safety precautions of a standard road stop, since it has about a dozen dangers - and "standing directly in front of a suspect's vehicle" ranks somewhere among the dumbest things you can do?

    Heck, I caution myself against doing it even when walking around the city, even if all I want to do is warn someone about an obstacle. I'm no freaking roadblock.

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  • [+] -29 points 3 years ago* (10 children)

    Yeah, did people not even watch the footage? You'd have to be braindead to try anything like that to cops nowadays, it's a death sentence

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    What exactly do you mean by "cops nowadays*?

    Do you mean do not try that because they will shoot at your for close to no reason?

    Or do you mean cops are extremely dangerous, just be the most agreeable prey they come across.

    Let's do a quick test, you see a car driving at you 60mph, the only thing you have is your gun, and your legs.

    You can:

    A) get out of the way and live

    B) shoot the driver (which would not at all stop the car)

    Now let's try this stupid shit one more time at 5mph.

    There is ZERO reason to discharge a firearm at this person, for evading arrest, shoplifting, etc. This is an UNARMED PREGNANT WOMAN.

    Imagine thinking this is the right way to handle this you fucking animal.

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  • [+] -23 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Doesn't matter in the slightest if this is the "right way to handle this", it's the reality of the situation where it's pretty well documented that they're going to choose their lives over yours if you give them a reason to (say for example driving your car directly at them like a braindead moron)

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago*

    Doesn't matter? This woman was almost a child herself, she lost her life at 21 years old over a bunch of power tripping cops. How fucking dare you. You need to reevaluate what matters.

    Part of being a an officer is being able to keep your shit together when civilians do not. Don't sit here and act like you'd think rationally while a bunch of guns are pointed at you knowing damn well your chances of survival are significantly lower just because your skin is a different color. I seriously cannot grasp how you're okay writing these comments. You should be ashamed of yourself, seriously.

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  • [+] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)