Posted on 09/06/2014 11:36:24 PM PDT by She_is_my_ hero
The parents of a San Jose woman killed by police after she allegedly threatened to kill her family are demanding answers and a full investigation by the district attorney's office.
Diana Showman, 19, was fatally shot by an officer outsider her home after coming out holding a black power drill. Police were responding to reports of a woman holding an "uzi-type weapon" in the Blossom Hill Road neighborhood. (VIDEO)
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This is regarding the post “Shooting by San Jose police: Man alleges cops tried to seize his phone for recording scene”.
Just another person who needed to be locked up in a mental institution. Sad day for the family, but this gal wasn’t meant to be walking around in public. She wasn’t safe.
I hate the phrase “mentally challenged.” When I went to university, I was mentally challenged. It sounds like this girl was simple mentally retarded.
Most people who have some kind of challenging disorder aren’t dangerous, it’s a few people like Adam Lanza or Brown that give someone a bad name.
Have you?
Sadly, we have devolved to the point where a cop will kill you with little or no provocation, and the “legal system” will most likely let him get away with it. You read stuff like this and it’s little wonder why virtually all Blacks hate the cops.
Maybe I missed something but what was she going to kill her family with? the power drill?
Why would her dad let her walk out side with anything if he knew the police were coming?
You read stuff like this and it’s little wonder why virtually all Blacks hate the cops.
19 years old isn’t neccessarily weak. Plus, not all misbehaving is fully predictable. Probably she went for a time without serious incident, so the parents figured she had the temper under control. In some cases of aspergers syndrome, people can go for say, weeks or months wihtout breaking out in a fit of rage or violence. It can be a bolt from the sky when it happens.
It’s a terrible tragedy. Everybody loses something. She was a big tall girl, and from a distance, did look to be threatening.
People would be surprised to know how many families still are the primary caregivers for their adult disabled child. It’s not always easy or simple to enter your relative into the local Regional System. It’s even more difficult if this autistic or otherwise mentally disabled person has moments of clarity and lucidity. Many very sick people can pull themselves out of a behavior spiral, long enough to fool the police that ‘all is sugar and spice’. You could take them to a local clinic for emergency care, but unless they’re still acting out, this center probably will not keep the client for any length of time.
The only positive way to see this incident, is that the two parents still have each other’s hand to hold, each other’s knowing glances to communicate understanding
as they live through this experience.
I guess any of us who have held a drill at any time in our life, are eligible to have been justifiably killed?
Milwaukee: Red
Makita: Dark Green
DeWalt: Bright Yellow
Black and Decker: Orange
Skil: Red and Black, but the red is conspicuous.
The only thing that unfolded very quickly was the decision to shoot that girl. If you listen very closely, you can hear that drill rev up as she is pulling the trigger. The cops certainly heard it. They knew it was a drill motor.
The reason she was shot was because she did not respond to their call to drop it. When she failed to respond, they did not waste any time to kill her--not because the events were happening too quickly. The mentality here is if a person is acting mentally unbalanced, it their right to put them away as fast as possible like a rabid dog. Mental illness be damned. It is something to eliminate with lethal force--not any other alternative. Why not incapacitate her with tear gas? Then, while she was blinded by the tear gas, incapacitate her with a taser. Police today are acting as if they are operating in the Dark Ages instead of with the best that modern-day science can do for them.
Uhmmm. ..she was drilled and I have to say, based on the picture of the perceived weapon, properly so. ...sadly....
Is not obeying an order justification for killing someone?
And fortunately the California legislature decades ago unlocked the doors and emptied the facilities for the mentally ill.
The story says police were responding to a call that someone had “an Uzi type weapon”. So others thought it was a gun before the police even showed up, no?
Why were you threatening people? The police did not know it was a power drill until later. Their first information was someone brandishing a gun.
Out of curiosity, would you wait until the first bullet is fired just to keep people happy?
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