There are very few situations so dire they can’t be made worse by the addition of a cop.
but also
Holding a large knife when cops arrive upon a fraught situation, or a gun, is very very bad idea.
“Bodycam video shows LA sheriff’s deputy fatally shooting woman, 27, FOUR times in front of child”
If she were a cat, he’d have to shoot her 9 times to kill her.
We see this over and over again. Cops choosing to escalate.
Was it necessary to kill the woman with the knife to save the man standing next to her? Maybe. But one thing is for sure. Out of the many options available (talking to the woman, using a taser, etc.) the cop chose the most lethal one.
Doesn't everyone know that a 911 call means the police will have to put down their donut and work?
The police kill people for that, going Postal on you.
These cops are in a war. Can you imagine the mental stress of being a big city cop? I cant. Seems even worse than an infantryman...at least he knows to kill...period. A cop has the added stress of split second decision making. Thoughts of fellow officers wasted and the families left behind. Getting up day after day with the constant mental cycling on and off between family man and city-soldier. In and out of city block sized fields of drugged up madness and walking dead zombies. Never knowing whos the murderer and whos the innocent. Fkd up politicians making his job harder all the time. All for what....maybe $70K/year? No way I could deal with it and stay sane...my idea of sane.
My opinion. This situation was handled poorly by the police involved. The shooting was not called for from what I saw.
The situation could have been de-escalated by ordering the woman to drop the knife. Very sad.
1) Cops have to deal with the scum of the earth everyday.
2) Cops consider us regular people to be the scum of the earth.
The way I read it, the cop was confused and intended to use the taser but accidentally shot the gun instead.
Lot of cop haters here....
This woman appeared to be emotionally out of her mind. The officer had no choice but to stop her aggression with a deadly weapon. Sad ending to a domestic situation out of control.
From the article;
“ Following Finlayson’s death, it emerged that Shelton had previously killed 61-year-old Michael Thomas on June 11 2020 in a similar case.”
I’m pro-cop.
And.
that was murder.
Wonder if the usual suspects will gin this one up into riots/looting. They may be too busy supporting Hamas.
Cop murdered her.
He’ll be back on shift in a couple of days...no charges.
L.A. better hope Ty Shelton is short for Tyrone.
LOL. Pretty standard around here...
Blue Hit Squad Bootlickers have arrived in numbers to this thread.
Moral: If you don’t intend to let cops take control of a situation then don’t call them.
LEO’s are just like everyone else. They want to go home to their families when they get off duty. Unfortunately, many of them don’t after being sent on a domestic violence call. The taxpayers have paid big bucks to send many idiots to “college” to become “social workers.” This is their job. They should be sent on domestic violence calls, not the police. JMO.
Four times??? Man, I thought the civil limit was only two times!
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Cop should have just shot the abusive boyfriend; the mother would have dropped her knife and started wailing about the cops. /s
Seriously though, people have to be smart enough, and in control of themselves enough, to appear non-threatening once police arrive. In many situations like this one, officers arriving on scene seem to have been given minimal or even inaccurate information by dispatchers. If told little more than “report of domestic violence with threats” cops are going to assume the person holding a large knife to someone while uttering death threats, IS the problem.
This story could easily have been “Racist police do nothing while woman stabs boyfriend to death”.