Posted on 09/01/2023 3:14:54 PM PDT by grundle
Comments like yours are why civilization is a quaint anachronism.
I don’t know of any words yhst might have been exchanged, but decades ago, there was a twenty-ish white guy that I was later told “just wanted to go home” after being pulled over. When he started to drive toward a cop, they opened fire, killing him. Race ought not enter into it.
Or how about this...
Ya got a 3 time loser with “Hate” tattooed across his forehead who just killed two people, and some people on this site think the cops are trained to stand in from of this suspects running vehicle in order to stop the suspect from fleeing/evading arrest.
Yuk yuk.
Unless she had a gun. And they didn’t know, one way or the other.
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One thing they did know for sure is that she did in fact have a very lethal weapon. Her car.
> One long-lasting byproduct of the Rodney King riots: cops mostly no longer carry batons. <
Excellent point. A baton (with which I’ve had some training) is a great tool for poking, pushing back, and swatting.
Unfortunately, too many cops decided to use their batons as a blunt instrument, as a baseball bat. So bye-bye to a great, non-lethal weapon.
Yup. And an attitude, and no apparent intent to comply with orders.
There are some bad cops. But it's a necessary evil. Otherwise, it'll be anarchy. We are already seeing that in California.
Fortunately, I don't live in a blue state.
It is very unsettling how fast a situation can escalate and in ways that none of the participants wished for.
There was NO REAL REASON to shoot her through the windshield. The cop was not being run over or down. They could have just as easily shot the tires and then gotten Her out of the car.
Another example of corrupt power trip.
That cop needs to be charged with Murder.
The underlying problem in the encounter is she didn’t really think the cop would do anything serious to her. All he had was a gun, and she didn’t think he would shoot her.
At home, in addition to guns, I also keep swords. An unarmed intruder may doubt that I would shoot him. He WILL NOT doubt that I would stick him if he advanced at me.
If I was a lawyer for the family, I might be inclined to argue that the cops knew she was a black woman, and as such they should have known that young black women are not likely to respond to police orders.
“Are you going to shoot me?” should have been a clear signal for these white racists cops to holster the weapons and let her go.
Her negritude was ignored. The cops were clearly racist.
Considering she hit him with the car, he could have inadvertently pulled the trigger when he lost his balance.
I don’t think we’ll ever know.
> There are some bad cops. But it’s a necessary evil. <
I want to believe that. But consider a plumbing company where maybe 20% of the plumbers are just bad. These bad plumbers insult their customers. They do substandard work. And they often make a bad plumbing situation worse.
The word would get around. Such a company would quickly lose trust.
The exact same thing is happening in American policing today. I can understand when a cop makes a poor decision while under stress. But way too many of them casually and deliberately do terrible things. Professionals need to always act as stone-cold professionals, period. We can demand no less.
As you noted, if this situation spins out of control, there is anarchy.
Except the cop was being run over. The longer video clearly shows him standing in front of the car with his hand on the hood. Within in a second she has turned her wheel & driven forward. He react to the threat to his life fires one shot and is knocked off his feet sidewards.
> At home, in addition to guns, I also keep swords. <
Wow. That’s really old-school. Instead, I keep police-grade pepper spray in every room of my house. It’s up high, and out of the way. But it’s there.
As for guns, I lost them all in an unfortunate boating accident years ago.
(ATF snoops, please write that down.)
I think it's always been this way. They got away with it in the past. But now everyone has a cell phone and can post to social media, bad cops are exposed immediately.
I get it. We shouldn't be tolerating bad cops. In the meantime, we are seeing the collapse of law and order in some places in this country.
Good on Ya, buddy.
Her mistakes- pregnant and allegedly shoplifting, gets in car, officer tells her multiple times to get out and she refuses lawful commands(big surprise there /s), then she tries to drive off, striking the officer. Officer's mistake- shooting a black woman, with a family, that more than likely, did not care about what she was doing, until, something like this happens, then they come out of the woodwork, blaming the police, instead of their family member, to cash in on what happened.
I live in Blendon Township, and this happened, just, a couple miles away from me. I have been in that Kroger, many times. The Blendon Police are not trigger happy. This is the first time, I can remember, in over 20 years of living here, that an officer, had to fire their weapon. Without any bias, I believe, this was a clean shoot. This happened, because, another black person, thought, the rules and laws do not apply to them.
I do not feel sorry for her death. She brought it on herself. I feel bad for the unborn baby, and her other 2 kids, that had a moron, for a Mother, and it got her killed.
Flaunt and flout are two words that are often confused. According to Merriam-Webster, “flaunt” means “to display or obtrude oneself to public notice” while “flout” means “to treat with contemptuous disregard” 1. So, if you want to show off something, you should use “flaunt.” If you want to openly ignore or defy a rule or convention, you should use “flout.” I hope that helps!
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