Now that the shot driver is confirmed African female, will we get the same Treyvon...

Doesn't matter if she was Black or White, crazy or depressed, why in the world would you shoot this woman? The video I saw they were shooting at the car speeding away. Where else does that happen except for Dukes of Hazzard or Starsky and Hutch episodes? Is that regular police proceedures? Shooting at moving vehicles in busy city streets? Absolutely unacceptable. Then to have them called heroes is an insult to actual heroes.

 

So, your conclusion is based on everything AFTER the event, once the stories have come in, once the accounts have been taken and we know more about the poor woman driver.

I agree it was tragic, but they didn't make a mistake. They took proper action. The fact she wasn't a terrorist, or a bomber, or had a lot of weapons, on her way to do something worse IS what makes it tragic. It doesn't change what they did to something wrong or a mistake simply because they didn't have this knowledge beforehand or during the incident.

 

What "FACTS" do you draw your conclusion from? What we know AFTER the event, or what you think you know was going on DURING the event?

 

I wonder what "facts" he has that led to the event.

As I posted, at least 4 cop cars were chasing this woman before she was ever seen on video.

Can the man with all the answers tell us why ?

 

You sound like you're in favor of a shoot first ask questions later policy. Seems to me that is what we have with this case of trigger happy cops.

 

16 seconds after the police approached the car and attempted to open her doors while telling her to stop. Why ?

[video=youtube;LCLGnach_YQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCLGnach_YQ[/video]

 

i cant disagree with you. I think is pretty awful.

 

Because she had just crashed a barricade at the White House and hit a secret service officer prior to her arrival? Just my thoughts.

 

So just let her go?
I guess you just would like to see all PDs just disarm?
And that side street was not a "busy city street". Heck there was even a round about there.

 

She drove for quite a while after the shots at 0:34

Yesterday I heard she was shot after that scene, and somewhere else. I don't know if the shots we hear at 0:34 hit her, or just the car... and another shot later did the kill. Others may know, I don't, and I'm not going to trust those that seem to have all the answers as to why she didn't do anything wrong.

Still, it doesn't answer why there were a number of police chasing her before the video even started.

 

I haven't been following, so if that is the case... why are people so upset that she was stopped, the only way it seemed they could get her to stop (since drawn weapons, and police demands didn't even work)... after hitting someone already and possibly hitting more people... with a baby at risk the whole time ?

What an odd bunch they are.

 

Because she had rammed a barricade at the White House, hit a secret service agent with her car, and she then hit the barriers you see in the video at capital hill. Should they not chase her for any of that?

 

Mentally ill? Sorry, she's not the only one with that particular malfunction, and we don't see things like this everyday. As soon as its known to be a minority or actually anyone that can't be easily cast as a Tea Party/right winger, there is some excuse for them and their behavior...

 

Well, they didn't just shoot first and ask questions later, fortunately.

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Because they are all of the mindset that all cops are thugs and just want to shoot people.

 

Dude, don't waste your time trying to argue with me.
Those cops probably saved lives, especially that poor baby in the car, while almost losing theirs.

She wouldn't stop her recklessness, even when commanded to at gunpoint. The kill was justified.

I just didn't know what all took place before the video started.

 

Recklessness should get you shot, especially if you don't stop when told to by police with guns drawn? There are countless police chases all over the country every day. How many end in the police shooting the suspect...unarmed, with a baby, and after the vehicle is stopped? If the short answer in your book is - she might have been a terrorist; we're in trouble.

 

Wow, you just simply don't get it.

Generally if someone, or several people have a gun or guns drawn on you and tell you to stop, what, in your mind, is the most prudent course of action? And failing any common sense, what then could you reasonably expect to happen?

Again, you make the ridiculous assumption that the police knew the baby was there and the woman was unarmed BEFORE anything happened.

As for how many end with the perp being shot at or shot, most of them do when the perp attempts to run over police officers.

 

Did you see where they were hit? To me, i didn't seem like nobody was hit and hurt in any major way. He was checked and released with minimal damage, if any. You're making it seem like she ran him over, knocked him over, or even was shoved hard, like other people did.

Police using excessive force is a conspiracy? Of course, I suppose. And drone strikes killing innocent people? More conspiracy nonesense, right? CIA trading drugs? Absurdities.

Don't make me laugh. I do wonder if some posters sleep with man-sized police dolls at night. The truth is out there

 

You're listening to the **** media and, of course, the self-justification of various law enforcement officials.

Use your own eyes. Even in the video, I can see the body of the cops on the other side of the car through the windows and they were surrounding the car- hands on the hood, hand on the window. Saying they couldn't see inside the car...that's bulls**t.

And, as said before, police have chased suspects down on the road before and they don't just open fire. Sometimes. The last time I heard of it, the LAPD shot two light skinned women looking for Christopher Dorner, a black male. Then they burned him alive in a building.

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Did you watch the video? That is from the middle of the incident. She could have killed people. There were two other situations where she was ramming barracades and cop cars... willing to kill anyone in the way. This is just a ridiculous position. Those cops were awesome.

 

I don't like to post here much anymore, but this calls for me to say something

good thing you aren't a cop.

I've been reading through this thread... I think you should look into some serious help because I don't believe any rational mentally stable human being can defend her actions and condemn police. you seem to be attaching white every time you use the word cop so im guessing theyres a bit of racism and juvenile rebellion in there.

 

This might be the most ludicrous post in a thread full of them. If you actually think the cons on this board are any less argumentative or biased than the libs, you might want to go outside and give your head a good shake.

 

Your weak arguments aren't helped by putting words in peoples' mouths.

She wasn't a terrorist, she was a danger to the public, and her baby.

Keyword... "was".