Posted on 05/31/2022 7:13:47 AM PDT by frogjerk
Missouri cops shot a woman five times as she tried to flee her arrest for a suspected armed carjacking — even though she had shown that she was unarmed and told them that she was pregnant, according to a horrified witness.
“They shot her! Oh my God, they shot her!” a woman repeatedly cried out in footage she filmed in the aftermath of Friday night’s officer-involved shooting in Kansas City.
“What the f–k!” she gasped as she filmed the shot woman on the ground. “Oh my God, they shot her and they still putting her in handcuffs!”
Police confirmed to KCTV that Leonna Hale, 26, was shot by officers responding to reports of an armed carjacking at 8 p.m.
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So much for innocent until proven guilty.
“However, the response to fleeing is to chase. Not to shoot.”
That depends on the law, not on your personal assessment. If the law allows the police to shoot a fleeing felon, then it’s up to the policeman’s judgement whether the situation warrants it. The policeman is the one who will have to live with the consequences if they allow a criminal to escape and the criminal harms someone else subsequently.
“However, treating suspects with deadly force because of non-compliance is definitely not a due-process protection.”
The laws that govern whether police are allowed to shoot or not in these situations are not based on “non-compliance”, they are based on the threat that the criminal poses to others if allowed to escape. Criminals that are “on the run” are much more likely to commit additional felonies, and violent felonies, in an attempt to make good on their escape, as they are already facing prison if caught, so there is little to motivate them to not do whatever they can to get away.
It is going to be a long summer of this stuff. The riots have been bought, paid for and scheduled.
That’s funny.
Well, since she ran, it certainly wasn’t a “pause”.
Ba-DUM...tish.
:: Being pregnant is a get out of jail free card. ::
Or, in this case, a “getchyoass shot by the po-po free” card.
Sending the right message - armed carjacking is a deadly act.
5 shots...fatal or no??
Not fatal
But...but........it’s just a clump of cells.
Maybe ask if the rabbit died? I’m dating myself
“Carjacking? A car can absolutely be a deadly weapon so it appears as if she *wasn’t* unarmed.”
She was out of the car when shot.
Lead stoppers are more effective than Crime stoppers!
Would work well at the Southern border as well.
When will criminals learn that fleeing a crime scene usually doesn’t end well?
She doesn’t seem to have been in the car when she tried to run.
So far I find no description of her being shot...in the arm, in the leg, and she's still up when they tell her to get down...
The only way to stop the “entitled” mentality is with force.....the “woke” city prosecutors and politicians, coupled with the ambulance-chasers who ALWAYS play the race card, allows murderers to walk free, thugs to walk free, and taxpayers paying un-Godly amounts to “guilt-free” baby mamas, and absent un-told “extended family” others.
It’s coming down to local citizen policing and taking care of business, because cities, judges, juries, and politicians only protect themselves.
NTSA.
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