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Bodycam Video: Police justified in shooting woman who stabbed officer...
CBS 12 Television ^ | 9/3/2020 | Gary Detman

Posted on 09/14/2020 9:55:41 PM PDT by L.A.Justice

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (CBS12) — **Warning-story contains graphic video which may be uncomfortable to some viewers.**

The State Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Court in northeast Florida justified the fatal shooting of a woman who stabbed a police officer in Jacksonville.

Authorities released the body camera video of the shooting, which happened April 11 outside a home in the northwestern part of the city. According to local reports, officers with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office responded to a call about a dispute between roommates.

In the video, as a female officer arrives at the door, Leah Baker rushes out with a large knife in her hand and stabs the officer in the arm. "I've just been f-----g stabbed," the officer said over her radio as she backs away. The wounded officer tells Baker to get on the ground and drop the knife before firing two shots. The officer's partner tells the woman to drop the knife.

The woman then runs toward the second officer who then fires several shots, knocking the woman to the ground.

In the video, the woman lays on the ground for awhile but tries to get up. More officers arrive with their guns drawn. A K-9 then latches on to the woman's leg and officers use a taser on her.

Baker later died at the hospital.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: ecstasy; florida; meth; police
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This lady could have killed the female cop...

An officer cannot hesitate to shoot in this kind of situation...

It reminds me of the situation in Lancaster, PA... The guy with the knife got shot before he got too close to the officers...

1 posted on 09/14/2020 9:55:41 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
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To: L.A.Justice

good

dont care what color or gender or age a criminal thug is


2 posted on 09/14/2020 9:57:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: L.A.Justice

Don;t know what “lady” your talking about. That’s a walker with a knife!


3 posted on 09/14/2020 10:02:43 PM PDT by gr8eman (Stupid should hurt! Treason should hurt more!)
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To: L.A.Justice

The (s)cum bucket woman must have been a zombie. She needed a clear spinal-cord severing to go down.


4 posted on 09/14/2020 10:03:42 PM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: L.A.Justice

1. Do not break the law.
2. Do not attack police officers.
3. If apprehended, respectfully comply.

It really is that easy.


5 posted on 09/14/2020 10:04:48 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around. God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: L.A.Justice

Shot, tazed, bit and DOA. Don’t stab police, it won’t end well for you.


6 posted on 09/14/2020 10:05:38 PM PDT by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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To: L.A.Justice; Lazamataz

Florida Woman


7 posted on 09/14/2020 10:06:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: L.A.Justice

Looks like something out of a Quentin Tarantino movie.


8 posted on 09/14/2020 10:07:07 PM PDT by thecodont
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im sorry...women should not be patrol officers....


9 posted on 09/14/2020 10:07:16 PM PDT by basalt
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To: L.A.Justice

Couldn’t have had a nicer community service officer counsel her on a better way to deal with her emotions?


10 posted on 09/14/2020 10:13:09 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: gr8eman
Her roommate stated that she has been having some mental problems... However, I don't think that an unarmed social worker would have been appropriate in this case...
11 posted on 09/14/2020 10:13:34 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
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To: L.A.Justice

I’d say that picture tells the whole story. Another nut bites the dust and just in time.


12 posted on 09/14/2020 10:56:01 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: L.A.Justice
Meth is a terrible way to go.
13 posted on 09/14/2020 11:05:02 PM PDT by MAAG (Tetelestai, paid in full. You are as righteous as God is. Double jeopardy is forbidden.)
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To: L.A.Justice
Aww. She has a puppy!

Orange Man Bad!/sarc

14 posted on 09/14/2020 11:17:13 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: L.A.Justice

Looks like she became the drug.


15 posted on 09/14/2020 11:52:51 PM PDT by familyop ( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
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To: L.A.Justice

My best friend became a sheriff’s deputy many years ago. Part of their training was how fast someone running at you could get to you with a knife before you could draw your weapon. I think the average limit was about 21 feet,


16 posted on 09/15/2020 3:57:38 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (We will be safe from terror when we treat Islam like postwar Germany treated Nazism)
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To: L.A.Justice

She’s hot.

I’d hit that.


17 posted on 09/15/2020 4:01:28 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("Black Lives Matter" becomes "Terse TV Blackmail"..... #AnagramsNeverLie)
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To: L.A.Justice

Well. The dead woman is white. There will be no riots.


18 posted on 09/15/2020 4:07:49 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: MikeSteelBe

It’s called the “Tueller Drill”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEjxg1m3ORU

Bigger issue: somebody on drugs can be shot multiple times and still keep coming at you.


19 posted on 09/15/2020 4:13:04 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Lazamataz

You’d better wear chain mail . . .


20 posted on 09/15/2020 4:20:45 AM PDT by BraveMan
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