• TheVoiceOfRaison@thelemmy.club
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    2 days ago

    We haven’t seen the body warn yet, but the issue is why is shooting at her automatically justified in this context? Driving at officers or not. Why did officers put themselves in the position to be driven at, why not just tail her and pull her over, why not get her registration and go to her address. There are far more alternative options than (as seems to the standard) going for maximum force first.

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      17 hours ago

      Tailing people ends up in high showed chases and kills others, not really an option.

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      1 day ago

      why is shooting at her automatically justified

      The cop saw her holding up a baby. He was shooting at the baby.

      Presumably this was justifiable self defense because the baby was the reason the mother needed diapers and if she hadn’t needed diapers the cop would not be fearing for his life at that moment

        • the_flying_pig@lemmy.world
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          1 day ago

          We are being very sarcastic, the disassociation helps me process a tragedy like this. There is absolutely no context that would make this justifiable, the fact that a judge still deemed it so shakes me to my core.