Too Early to Judge, I guess. But police Shoot Woman in her Own Backyard

[Seymour Flops]

I think this could have been handled a lot differently. All those officers for a hit-and-run driver? I get why they stood on the carport or whatever, but they could barely see over the fence, and the woman wasn't being aggressive, she was just carrying her gun, having heard reports of a suspect fleeing through backyards.

Why not just tell her to go back into her house? Why the obsession with getting her to drop the gun? Did they mistake her for the suspect?

Why did they fire so many shots and she walked away, with one hit to shoulder? Sounds like a glancing hit. Did they realze it was not a "rightious" shoot and miss deliberately?

This story smells bad, but I fear we will never get to the bottom of it.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

I didn't hear the police identify themselves in that video

 

[JGalt]

Say it ain't so.

 

[1srelluc]

Failed to comply then "got it on" with the cops?

WTF....Smoke her....Good shoot.

 

[westwall]

I think this could have been handled a lot differently. All those officers for a hit-and-run driver? I get why they stood on the carport or whatever, but they could barely see over the fence, and the woman wasn't being aggressive, she was just carrying her gun, having heard reports of a suspect fleeing through backyards.

Why not just tell her to go back into her house? Why the obsession with getting her to drop the gun? Did they mistake her for the suspect?

Why did they fire so many shots and she walked away, with one hit to shoulder? Sounds like a glancing hit. Did they realze it was not a "rightious" shoot and miss deliberately?

This story smells bad, but I fear we will never get to the bottom of it.

She shot first. She appeared to have been having a mental crisis. She didn't recognize that she was talking to cops.

 

[JGalt]

She shot first. She appeared to have been having a mental crisis. She didn't recognize that she was talking to cops.

Maybe she found her hubby's hash pipe.

 

[Seymour Flops]

She shot first. She appeared to have been having a mental crisis. She didn't recognize that she was talking to cops.

She shot into the dirt, if that was even her shooting.

She may have been having a mental crises. Coming to her backyard was unwise at least. But the solution would have been to tell her to get back inside, not yell at her to drop the gun without ID'ing themselves. She was in her own home, on her own property.

 

[yidnar]

She shot into the dirt, if that was even her shooting.

She may have been having a mental crises. Coming to her backyard was unwise at least. But the solution would have been to tell her to get back inside, not yell at her to drop the gun without ID'ing themselves. She was in her own home, on her own property.

when a cop says drop the gun .. drop the gun ..

 

[whitehall]

She is holding a gun. It could have ended differently if a Police Officer was killed. Maybe that's what NBC would rather see.

 

[Leo123]

I didn't hear the police identify themselves in that video

I heard 'It's the police' around 08 in the timeline. I only heard that once in the whole video. Of course she may not have heard that but they did identify themselves. Also it appears she could not see them.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

A truly authentic American story.

 

[westwall]

when a cop says drop the gun .. drop the gun ..

When you are in a mental crisis you don't hear what the cops are saying. There is a group out there called NAAMI which is trying to teach cops how to deal with people in crisis.

 

[Captain Caveman]

I think this could have been handled a lot differently. All those officers for a hit-and-run driver? I get why they stood on the carport or whatever, but they could barely see over the fence, and the woman wasn't being aggressive, she was just carrying her gun, having heard reports of a suspect fleeing through backyards.

Why not just tell her to go back into her house? Why the obsession with getting her to drop the gun? Did they mistake her for the suspect?

Why did they fire so many shots and she walked away, with one hit to shoulder? Sounds like a glancing hit. Did they realze it was not a "rightious" shoot and miss deliberately?

This story smells bad, but I fear we will never get to the bottom of it.

Crazy cops mixed in with a crazy gun culture = disaster

 

[Leo123]

When you are in a mental crisis you don't hear what the cops are saying. There is a group out there called NAAMI which is trying to teach cops how to deal with people in crisis.

The video looked more like a Hollywood influenced, staged deal. Pretty steady video for a body cam. The whole scenario of a bunch of cops taking siege of a fence and shouting through said fence to put the gun down, over and over and over. Nobody actually tried to SEE what was happening, she didn't know they were cops. They only identified themselves once? Weezer's bassist's wife was obviously terrified. OR am I full of it?

 

[westwall]

The video looked more like a Hollywood influenced, staged deal. Pretty steady video for a body cam. The whole scenario of a bunch of cops taking siege of a fence and shouting through said fence to put the gun down, over and over and over. Nobody actually tried to SEE what was happening, she didn't know they were cops. They only identified themselves once? Weezer's bassist's wife was obviously terrified. OR am I full of it?

The video of her backyard is a security camera.

 

[Seymour Flops]

when a cop says drop the gun .. drop the gun ..

Sure, if she knew they were cops.

She saw heads looking over a fence. How did she know they were cops?

She was in her own back yard, and had committed no crime. She had heard reports of a hit and run driver prowling through backyards. Why would she assume cops were after her?

Why so many shots and she walks away?

Something is wrong here, and "the cops are always right" isn't the answer.

 

[rightwinger]

If she was holding a knife, I would say they overreacted

Crazy or not, a person who refuses an order to drop your weapon is a threat not just to cops, but anyone around her

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Another moron who decided it is a good idea to have a gun out against numerous others who also have guns, and have a heightened right to use it against you.
It is simply the dumbest thing to do - PERIOD.
There is no other version of this story other than a complete imbecile being a complete imbecile

 

[Lisa558]

Sure, if she knew they were cops.

She saw heads looking over a fence. How did she know they were cops?

She was in her own back yard, and had committed no crime. She had heard reports of a hit and run driver prowling through backyards. Why would she assume cops were after her?

Why so many shots and she walks away?

Something is wrong here, and "the cops are always right" isn't the answer.

She should have just dropped the gun. The police lives were in danger.

 

[Seymour Flops]

She should have just dropped the gun. The police lives were in danger.

Why so many shots and why did she walk away?