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Bodycam: Pregnant woman accused of shoplifting shot by police (www.cnn.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/news@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

From what I could see, the gun was out first. Most people go their whole lives without having a gun pointed at them. How you will respond is very unpredictable. Panic sets in - it doesn't seem real. Cops are (or at least should be) trained on how to handle life or death situations- ordinary people are not.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The gun was drawn when she started turning the wheel to drive around the officer stood in front. You can hear it coming out of its holster, and you don't see it before then.

    However, I'm not condoning the officer's behaviour here. They created the situation, they should have known better, both reasonably and from their training. What they did was essentially a form of entrapment.

    All I'm saying is that she made a mistake herself also by driving the car towards him, and, regardless of whether it's a police officer or a regular human being, responding with a gun is most likely going to be justified.

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