Posted on 03/15/2021 10:37:07 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A woman in Tennessee was killed and a cop was rushed into surgery following a shootout in a parking lot, graphic video shows.
Footage of the Friday morning encounter between Metro Nashville Police Officer Josh Baker and Nika N. Holbert, 31, shows the 14-year veteran cop deploying his Taser on the woman while ordering her to get out of a car.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
In a gentler society of citizens with a sense of community and responsibility, such harsh measures wouldn’t be necessary, but certain segments of society think they’re still up the Congo river somewhere and behave accordingly. So like Otter said, it’s a shame a few bad apples have to spoil the fun for everyone else.
It didn't happen overnight. Some of these folks were raised to hate cops, hate white people and they want to kill them. It's not too complex. The obese cop even told her she was being videoed. She didn't care, she was hell bent on putting a bullet in him.
Umm? What happened between Holbert drove off and later pronounced dead at a hospital?
No need to look. She shot at the cop and he shot back. She is dead. He is lucky to be alive.
If the left needs to start another riot, the media will comply by changing the facts, leading the street savages to burn and steal.
“Was the officer wearing body armor?”
We know you didn’t read the article!
One other thing, when the cop was on his knees and watched her start her vehicle and drive off, he was a prime easy target...Why he didn’t unload on the suspect in vehicle as she did this is a freaking mystery to me.
"...waltzing around wherever she wanted..."
Cooperate and graduate. Resist and you might die. Simple to understand.
Well he really screwed up that wish.
She’s got drugs and a gun and also so well informed that white cops are killing blacks for no reason and now she is dead because of it.
Shame.
Speedy recovery for officer shot trying to do his job.
What cop shows?
Those all got pulled the day St. George OD’d
Ok, you shamed me into reading the article. :)
“Baker, who was hit beneath his bullet-resistant vest...”
how did she drive off?
Why are they hiring extremely obese cops? How in tarnation could this cop ever chase down some lumberhead in a full run, while jumping fences etc? This cop is simply not capable of doing even the basic stuff cops are required to do on a routine basis.
This is Alice in Wonderland stuff.
The reason is positional asphyxia.
As law enforcement officers, part of your job is to subdue and restrain violent people in order to protect yourself, others, and even the subject being restrained. Unfortunately, the techniques you use to control and restrain the subject may interfere with that individual’s ability to breathe. This can result in an in-custody death from a phenomenon called positional asphyxia.Despite the name, positional asphyxia is not just about the position of the subject’s body. There are precipitating factors that make positional asphyxia deadly. These factors include intoxication due to alcohol, drug use, obesity, psychiatric illnesses, and physical injury. Positional asphyxia may even be caused simply by the subject getting into a breathing-restricted position they cannot get out of, either through their own carelessness or as a consequence of an accident or illness. Some people have suffered seizures that trapped them in positions where their breathing was restricted and death has resulted.
Positional asphyxia is a potential danger of some common physical restraint techniques. That’s why it is necessary for law enforcement officers to know and understand that preexisting risk factors combined with the body position of the subject when subdued or while in transport can increase the risk of in-custody death.
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There have been enough cases of this happening (GEORGE FLOYD) that any black person with ANY ONE of these accompanying conditions who has been paying attention knows better than to let themselves be handcuffed unless they have a death wish.
I have congestive heart failure. My heart is swollen and does not pump blood and oxygen properly. I can't even sleep lying down flat, but only in a reclyner. If I was placed on my stomach with my hands cuffed behind my back I would die. Even without the handcuffs I would die if forced to lay on my stomach/chest for any length of time. Dying by suffocation is a slow, agonizing process.
While I would not have done what this scared-out-of-her-wits criminal did, I would rather be shot than die of asphyxiation with my hands cuffed behind my back. Obviously, so would she.
The police are WAY WAY WAY past due in finding another method of restraint.
"...resisting arrest gets mandatory 10-year sentence..."
People are dying who cooperate. See my post above.
“One other thing, when the cop was on his knees and watched her start her vehicle and drive off, he was a prime easy target..”
Yep. Her last act at humanity was to spare the life of a fellow fatty.
I enjoy binge watching Chicago P.D. which is on all day long Thursday on ION Television Network. Those cops don’t mess around, and the criminals deserve whatever brutality is visited upon them by the Intelligence Unit cops.
(The show is fictional.)
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