[driftdiver]

She wasn’t a threat to anyone. 30 years ago people ran from cops all the time for minor infractions. They didn’t get shot.

[cuban leaf]

She wasn’t a threat to anyone. 30 years ago people ran from cops all the time for minor infractions. They didn’t get shot.

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For me, the one “mitigating fact” for the officer is that she rammed his car, almost hitting him, before he fired. If she had simply taken off after being stopped, his firing his gun would be utterly ludicrous. It isn’t, if he almost got crushed. It would put him in a different mindset, assuming he is a normally functioning human being.

[onedoug]

She had already tried to kill the cop. That’s good enough for me.

[ansel12]

You are right, running from cops did used to be common in my youth during the 1960s, a lot of young guys had real beasts of cars back then, and prided themselves on their outrunning them.

The idea of cops executing or even just shooting at them, didn’t come up.