Authorities in Ohio say they will release body camera footage of a fatal police shooting of a pregnant Black woman.

  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Somehow she made it out of the store without inflicting her hypothetical murderous shoplifter rage on anyone

    Employees aren’t supposed to engage with shoplifters unless they’re loss-prevention. You let them leave and let the cops handle it. If no one tried to stop her, of course she didn’t try to get past them. Also don’t put words in my mouth, I said nothing about murderous rage.

    but I guess she was just like some kind of bull triggered by red and blue lights.

    She didn’t want to be caught. She’s a mom with two kids and another on the way, and clearly not thinking rationally or she wouldn’t be shoplifting alcohol. If you aren’t thinking clearly and you don’t want the cops to stop you, driving away (even towards them!) while they try to stop you may seem like a good choice. Again, don’t mischaracterize what I said.

    Thanks for providing some entirely unnecessary made up context to preemptively justify the actions of people you apparently know are a bunch of lying racist murderers.

    The world is not black and white. A person is not automatically a good or bad actor in every situation purely because of the color of their skin or the uniform they wear, and pretending otherwise is childish.

    I didn’t justify anything, I simply said I won’t be surprised if the cops didn’t lie about this situation.

    Please learn to recognize nuance. The world will be better if we all strive to understand one another.

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      1 year ago

      A witness has said she put the bottles down before she left the store. I think she was scared of the two armed men using unjustified force on her

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        1 year ago

        Hadn’t heard that. Having seen the video though, I really don’t think they were justified in shooting her. At all. Their lives were not in any immediate danger. Trigger happy fucks.