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Bodycam video shows Ohio police fatally shooting pregnant black woman (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by StringTheory@beehaw.org to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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Less than one minute. The police weren’t even called there for her, they were in the parking lot for an “unrelated call.” And why was an officer standing in front of her car leaning on the hood holding a gun in her face in the first place? There are so many things wrong with this.

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[–] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The question for me is, is a couple hundred Dollars of alcohol or groceries worth someone's life? Why not let her go and pursue charges against her rather than executing her in the parking lot?

[–] StringTheory@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In a video statement a day after the shooting, Belford said two officers were helping someone get into a locked car when a supermarket employee told them several people were leaving with stolen items. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/police-fatally-shooting-a-pregnant-black-woman-captured-on-video-set-to-be-released

I have a hard time seeing a 7-months pregnant woman being part of a gang of thieves and running from a store with her arms full of bottles of alcohol.

And if she was part of the gang, you record her license plate and get the security camera pictures and call her in. What the hell are cops being taught?

[–] Seathru@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

What the hell are cops being taught?

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/warrior-cop-class-dave-grossman-killology.html

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

7-months pregnant woman being part of a gang of thieves

That's possibly the only part of this that I could understand: some people use the "fake pregnant" or "fake obese" strategy to fit in more stuff under their clothes... so just by seeing someone who "looks like" they're pregnant, you can't "rule out" them being a thief.

Shooting even a confirmed thief, still isn't justified.