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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      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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      I mean, she should have just complied, I don’t understand why she thought refusing and driving the car into a wall would have had a better result… That being said the cop is absolutely in the wrong, even before the situation escalated he was pointing his gun straight towards the women’s face, which is unacceptable.

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      I agree that she shouldn’t have been shot.

      In what world is it not a better option to just get her FUCKING CAR’S license-plate number,

      She was driving a car without license plates, which is unusual.

      Young got into a four-door Lexus sedan that did not have a license plate and was illegally parked in a handicapped spot, Belford said.

      https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2023/08/25/blendon-township-police-statement-fatal-kroger-parking-lot-shooting-takiya-kiya-young-columbus-ohio/70680484007/

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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.

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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