Again, this is the kinda shit the French would start burning their country down for.
I hate this fucking country.
We need to be more French. Learn, study, practice.
This was in response to shoplifting!? SHOPLIFTING!?
I guess that was on me for assuming the context would make this better and not 100 times worse.
But, didn't you read? The officers said that the car may have went in their general direction.
Stolen diapers for the one year old that the police slaughtered is justified to kill a black person.
God I fucking hate this world.
FFVII Revelation is coming. I'm stealing the black fucking materia and calling meteor myself
No evidence released: Suspected shoplifting at best.
Shoplifting a singular pack of diapers, btw
No this was the response because she was black and shoplifting. It was 100% a race thing.
Conservatives love kids, until they're born.
Then some of them love them even more 😒
Normally I'm here on the side of the police but in this case there is just no way. You dont get to shoot a suspect just because they're in their car about to drive away. You need other things at play like they're armed and an immediate threat to people before it makes sense to try and shoot someone. I dont believe for a second they were in any danger of being run over.
This country is so culturally cooked, populism has rotted the american mind beyond repair.
Only an idiot can call the death of a 1 yr old justified, laws withstanding.
We're a deeply broken country.
Objectively how can anyone say it's justified to shoot a baby? What the fuck are we doing?
They aimed for the mother and hit the baby by accident. The mother was accused of stealing diapers.
Like, this whole thing is fucked up. Nonviolent offenses do not warrant the use of lethal force.
Especially when his mother's only crime was being poor and desperate? The real criminals here are wearing suits, not stealing diapers for their sons.
The usa government determined that the murdered 1 year old was hitler reborn. His death was justified apparently to the judge.
If it was really the case, Trump would have appointed him as his successor.
Just imagine what we would be justified in doing if this is justified in the leadership class's heads.
So, about that revolution, America...
The fuck, America
I'm sure the baby was a terrorist or something.
Accused of stealing 20 dollars worth of diapers? Death penalty without trial for you and the occupants of your vehicle.
Also, you want the footage that your tax dollars paid for? Fuck you.
That's one thing, another question is, what kind of society we are living in where a mother is forced to steal diapers?
I also see stores that put baby formulas behind lock.
Those are not some luxurious items, those things people would only steal if they had no other choice.
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Technical correction: She's accused of driving her vehicle towards officers, which they used to justify the shooting.
Disclaimer: I am not saying the shooting was justified. I know nothing about where the officers were or how she was driving.
in what SHIT HOLE country do 'cops' draw weapons for stolen diapers?!?!
the diapers were insured with loss prevention, deadly force was NOT justified.
BLACK LIVES MATTER
Also, if you steal diapers and nothing else then maybe, JUST MAYBE you probably just can't afford them despite them being rather essential in raising a child. Which doesn't make it a non-crime, but it's probably a sign that you're actually in need.
And here I was thinking that raping kids, evading tax and making your country the lapdog of Russia should be punished more severely than stealing diapers out of necessity.
America is crazy. A women does shoplifting and officers shoot at her? I don't know if you guys know how insane your country is.
Dont you have some law that officers only can use deadly force when their life or someone else's life is in danger?
Not just shoplifting but literally stole a pack of diapers. People don't steal diapers for fun, that's obviously someone who was out of options, and took the only option left to her
Edit to add: apparently she didn't even steal the diapers! Some customer said they thought she did and she didn't have the receipt (because who grabs the receipt when they go and buy a single consumable item?)
Wow so the extraducial execution of innocent babies is justified for the petty crime of shoplifting in Mississippi? That is fuckin crazy. The attorney general is a demonic souless hag.
In a state with which bans abortion.
The crime was not the shoplifting, it was being black. None of this is about the diapers.
Why do they even send cops to a shoplifting scene? Let the store deal with it. They have cameras, security guards, insurance.
That's what I don't get. Everything in the fucking store is insured! A $20 pack of diapers is insured! The store will get that back, take it up as a loss.
Sure you don't want to encourage theft, but shit happens. Oops someone accidentally walked out with one item. Sure send someone out to inform the customer, maybe they legit missed it. If you can't locate the customer or they already started to drive away, welp put that under accidental loss. It's not that different from someone accidentally dropping a jar of pickles off the shelf. The store isn't going to call the cops because of an accidental jar drop.
But we all know it wasn't the accidental shoplifting, it's because she was black. That's the ONLY reason why the cops were called. Because of the color of her skin. And then the trigger happy racist as fuck cop saw that and shot first and never asked questions. It's past time there were serious fucking consequences for these fucking piece of shit pigs (cops).
I'd fucking boycott that fucking store and the owner. Force corporate to act over this shit.
How many diapers did that baby steal? Insurance companies say each year of human life is worth about 50,000 USD, so, cynically channeling Jonathan Swift, shooting this baby that could have lived to 60 would only be “justified” if the little one were hauling away 3,000,000 USD worth of diapers. That's about 500 metric tons of diapers.
had stolen a pack of diapers. The women exited the store with the child as officers arrived, entered their vehicle and began to leave the parking lot. Officers drew their weapons, and Vellesiya Wiley lifted her son up to show the officers that a child was in the car. One officer fired into the vehicle, killing the baby as she held him.
stealing diapers or bread, should be a lesser crime, than stealing jewelry or clothing. Neither should justify shooting when running/driving away. If they put their hands up holding a baby, they are unlikely driving super fast, and may in fact doing step 1 of surrendering.
Even if a diaper thief were to use a hostage as human shield, shooting is only legally justified in Israel, where hannibal directive extended to civilians is part of their non-negotiation hatred towards the "palestinian problem", and where Mississippi has and may still view violent oppression as the preferred "solution" to their racial tensions.
Any kind of stealing. I don't care if they stole a diamond or the Mona Lisa, that doesn't deserve the death penalty, much less an extrajudicial killing.
But as the other 49 say: thank God for Mississippi. And as the other 190 say: what the fuck is happening over there?
Old white woman says it's ok to shoot black babies, classy MS
We live in hell.
Murdering a mother and baby over a package of diapers.
Welcome to trump's police state.
Thank GOD the Child was ONE YEARS OLD Instead of a Fetus! THAT would have been a Tragedy!
-LITERALLY Pro Life Republicans!
Pro-life right there
This was posted in wild news and the mods there had the Reddit style pin “don’t make fun of her appearance ewe’ll ban youuu”
Bunch of loser assholes
I hope she goes to hell
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