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Seattle police kill black woman after she calls for help
The Latest: Woman killed by police identified by relatives

4:50 p.m.
A 30-year-old woman who Seattle police say they shot and killed after she came after officers with a knife has been identified by relatives as Charleena Lyles, the Seattle Times reports.

Police spokesman Detective Mark Jamieson says the woman had called police to report the burglary Sunday morning.

As two officers responded to the woman's fourth-floor apartment near Magnuson Park in northeast Seattle, police say she came at the officers with a knife.


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The police are out of control
 
It isn't "out of control" to shoot someone coming at you with a knife.

Under optimal circumstances it might have possible to use non-lethal (e.g. taser) means but anytime the threat of an office being seriously injured or killed by a weapon all bets are off. Sucks for her.
 
The rest of the story.


Mother with knife killed by police was pregnant and had mental-health issues, family says




Police Detective Mark Jamieson said officers were alerted to “hazard information” in the system after a previous encounter with the woman, which prompted a two-officer response Sunday morning when she called to report an attempted burglary in her fourth-floor unit at Brettler Family Place apartments.

Williams said her sister had “mental-health problems” and questioned the need for officers to use deadly force.

She said Lyles had been arrested earlier this month by officers responding to another call after she had armed herself as protection against her boyfriend. Jamieson said she had a pair of scissors during the previous encounter.


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Seattle police kill black woman after she calls for help
The Latest: Woman killed by police identified by relatives

4:50 p.m.
A 30-year-old woman who Seattle police say they shot and killed after she came after officers with a knife has been identified by relatives as Charleena Lyles, the Seattle Times reports.

Police spokesman Detective Mark Jamieson says the woman had called police to report the burglary Sunday morning.

As two officers responded to the woman's fourth-floor apartment near Magnuson Park in northeast Seattle, police say she came at the officers with a knife.


Read more here: The Latest: Woman killed by police identified by relatives

The police are out of control
Sure, it was the cops who were out of control, not the nice black woman attacking them with a knife.
 
Seattle police kill black woman after she calls for help
The Latest: Woman killed by police identified by relatives

4:50 p.m.
A 30-year-old woman who Seattle police say they shot and killed after she came after officers with a knife has been identified by relatives as Charleena Lyles, the Seattle Times reports.

Police spokesman Detective Mark Jamieson says the woman had called police to report the burglary Sunday morning.

As two officers responded to the woman's fourth-floor apartment near Magnuson Park in northeast Seattle, police say she came at the officers with a knife.


Read more here: The Latest: Woman killed by police identified by relatives

The police are out of control
Do you ever read the links, Matthew?
 

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