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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    So some neckbeard republicans are going to come out and say “She should have just complied”, but honestly what is the absolute worst scinerio if she WAS shop-lifting? In what world is it not a better option to just get her FUCKING CAR’S license-plate number, track her to her house, then arrest her there when she’s clearly cornered? Or just boot her car when it’s found again and force her to come to you to get it off?

    Because now you’ve killed a woman and her unborn baby over some God damn groceries.

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      The headline “Pregnant lady caught shoplifting groceries; arrested” would already be telling of a society that has gone far over the edge.

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      If this is a jurisdiction that says embryos are people then that cop executed a completely innocent person.

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          Sorry, I’m just gonna repeat that for the folks in the back…

          NONCOMPLIANCE SHOULDN’T MEAN EXECUTION BY FIRING SQUAD

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        I pretty sure she drove her car into a wall because she was bleeding to death. I don’t think that was really a decision.

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        she should have just complied,

        I’m surprised there isn’t an automod bot to filter out cliche comments exactly like this

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      The argument will be that she was trying to use her car as a deadly weapon because she accelerated into an officer standing in front of the car.

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        Which falls apart when you watch the cops body cam footage and see that never even happened

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        If she was trying to run him over, she did a really shitty job. The cop put himself in front of the vehicle and she turned her steering wheel the wrong direction and didn’t slam the accelerator. I think if anything the cop was trying to be run over, not the other way around.

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          Its not about “doing a good job” or not. She had the intent. Its all it takes for an officer or even a person to defend themselfs

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            You’re not getting it. He wasn’t trying to defend himself, he was intentionally putting himself in a place of danger to justify murder in the name of defense.

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            She clearly did not have intent. The cop just placed himself in front of the car. If he wasn’t there she still would have driven forward. She didn’t drive forward because he was there. It wasn’t intent to run him over, it was intent to flee. The cop had intent to be in the cars path though.

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            I thought it wasn’t about her shoplifting? Make up your mind.

            Oh, I’m sorry. It’s not about any of that, is it? It’s just about whatever you need to excuse a government agent murdering an American citizen without a proper trial by jury.

            Do us all a favor and never pretend you respect the United States Constitution ever again.

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        You can clearly see her turn the wheel away from the officer, and she doesn’t slam on the gas, she just accelerates at a normal speed. Not that that matters to you, you just love jacking off to pigs murdering people and don’t want to question for one second how shoplifting and resisting arrest is supposed to justify murder

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      What I want to do is make a satirical video game about complying perfectly with a police officer’s requests, and show just how hard it is.

      Throw in mixups where the player might be confronted by armed criminals, just to make sure players instill themselves with a sense of self-preservation.

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      Or, you could deal with the issue when and where it arises? Seriously, some of the commenters here are trying to rewrite history.

      She drove at a police officer dude.

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        She drove away from a police officer who intentionally stepped out in front of the car.

        Also that’s some grade a level hypocrisy right there.