Article makes it seem like cops fired after first takeoff. It was after the second.
Neither side handled this well.
And the first cop could have been less angry and reactive the second time too. When you deal with people who are likely to be upset, as I do in the hospital where I work, one hopes you can avoid taking it personally and rise above your feelings of pride or control or whatever.
At least she managed to avoid the enema process - maybe something in the car labeled as drug paraphernalia really did worry her about that being a possibility.
But only one side fired bullets.
Just because the mother is an idiot and put her children in danger doesn’t excuse a cop firing at the children. The cop’s life wasn’t in danger.
Blaming the victim as well as the perp. Nice.
Tell me, if it weren’t a government employee firing at the van full of kids, would you be making the “neither side” argument?