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Bodycam Video: Police justified in shooting woman who stabbed officer...
CBS 12 Television ^ | 9/3/2020 | Gary Detman

Posted on 09/14/2020 9:55:41 PM PDT by L.A.Justice

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (CBS12) — **Warning-story contains graphic video which may be uncomfortable to some viewers.**

The State Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Court in northeast Florida justified the fatal shooting of a woman who stabbed a police officer in Jacksonville.

Authorities released the body camera video of the shooting, which happened April 11 outside a home in the northwestern part of the city. According to local reports, officers with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office responded to a call about a dispute between roommates.

In the video, as a female officer arrives at the door, Leah Baker rushes out with a large knife in her hand and stabs the officer in the arm. "I've just been f-----g stabbed," the officer said over her radio as she backs away. The wounded officer tells Baker to get on the ground and drop the knife before firing two shots. The officer's partner tells the woman to drop the knife.

The woman then runs toward the second officer who then fires several shots, knocking the woman to the ground.

In the video, the woman lays on the ground for awhile but tries to get up. More officers arrive with their guns drawn. A K-9 then latches on to the woman's leg and officers use a taser on her.

Baker later died at the hospital.


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To: BraveMan

I have a chain-mail condom.


21 posted on 09/15/2020 4:21:57 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("Black Lives Matter" becomes "Terse TV Blackmail"..... #AnagramsNeverLie)
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To: L.A.Justice

Waiting for the White Lives Matter riots...............


22 posted on 09/15/2020 5:08:32 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: L.A.Justice

Tag on her right wrist indicates she had recently been in a hospital.....or pysch ward.

She was probably denied pain killers at an ER and she decided to order delivery.


23 posted on 09/15/2020 5:23:55 AM PDT by Lowell1775
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To: L.A.Justice

Gotta give her a 10 on “Form”...another 10 on “Intent”.

But a big fat 0 on “Justification”.


24 posted on 09/15/2020 6:23:48 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Lazamataz

“I have a chain-mail condom.”

The word “chafe” comes to mind.


25 posted on 09/15/2020 6:26:26 AM PDT by moovova
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To: DocRock

Don’t try to pass fake $20.00s and live. Don’t fight the cops on the street and maintain the use of your legs.


26 posted on 09/15/2020 6:51:34 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: L.A.Justice
some kind of hospital bracelet?
27 posted on 09/15/2020 6:54:56 AM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: L.A.Justice

As a policeman said fifty years ago...”A knife is always loaded.”


28 posted on 09/15/2020 8:04:35 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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