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

[Seymour Flops]

Why didn't she drop the gun as ordered?

I don't know.Maybe she did not know they were police officers. Only their heads were sticking up above her fence.Maybe she thought she needed to be armed on her own property to defend herself since those cops obviously had no idea where the suspect was.

Because those cops are either terrible shots or knew they were doing the wrong thing. She will live to answer that.

 

[marvin martian]

And there you go, you don't have Freedom in your own property. Pretty poor.

Certainly not in places run by Democrats. No freedoms at all, really, unless you're rich or a criminal.

 

[rightwinger]

Is she a police officer?

Even worse…Castle Doctrine

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

History bares out the brutality that the race soldiers (aka the cops) frequently enacts on Black men, and women, alike.

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[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

That's America with lack of Freedoms.

That's BS coming from someone who has a hard time even owning a gun.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Even worse…Castle Doctrine

The police identified themselves and told her to drop the weapon. If she didn't, she assumes responsibility for getting shot.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I don't know. Maybe she did not know they were police officers. Only their heads were sticking up above her fence. Maybe she thought she needed to be armed on her own property to defend herself since those cops obviously had no idea where the suspect was.

Because those cops are either terrible shots or knew they were doing the wrong thing. She will live to answer that.

They identified themselves. You can't change that fact. It's on video. She should have remained in her house. Especially if she knew someone was on the loose in her neighborhood.

 

[Seymour Flops]

The police identified themselves and told her to drop the weapon. If she didn't, she assumes responsibility for getting shot.

If I'm ever burglarizing your house and you come out of your bedroom with a shotgun, all I have to do is say, "drop your weapon!" and finish what I'm doing.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

If I'm ever burglarizing your house and you come out of your bedroom with a shotgun, all I have to do is say, "drop your weapon!" and finish what I'm doing.

Now, you have gone stone cold stupid! Why don't you STFU and slink off back to your hole from whence you crawled?

If you identify yourself as police and then present yourself as a police officer, I have no right, you have no right to point that weapon at the police officers, and you should lower the weapon. That's the rules. I'm sorry you are like a ghetto thug who thinks otherwise.

 

[Jarlaxle]

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

I would.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Now, you have gone stone cold stupid! Why don't you STFU and slink off back to your hole from whence you crawled?

If you identify yourself as police and then present yourself as a police officer, I have no right, you have no right to point that weapon at the police officers, and you should lower the weapon. That's the rules. I'm sorry you are like a ghetto thug who thinks otherwise.

Oh, sorry! I would need to say "Police! Drop your weapon!" not just "Drop your weapon!"

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Oh, sorry! I would need to say "Police! Drop your weapon!" not just "Drop your weapon!"

Exactly. You better look like a cop too!

 

[Crepitus]

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.

Never wave your gun at a cop.

Ask any black guy.

 

[Captain Caveman]

That's BS coming from someone who has a hard time even owning a gun.

https://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/list-of-cliches-used-by-yanks.1127830/

 

[Jarlaxle]

Are you drunk again?

 

[TheInfiniteSadness]

The long version.

 

[Captain Caveman]

In the Land of the Free, you get shot by the cops on your own property, in the UK, we just shut the door -

 

[ChristisKing]

I saw the video, including the part with the actual suspect. The woman looked about as opposite from him as anyone could be.

This is not a "heroic police stop crime" story. This is a "police shoot wrong person" story.

It should surprise no one, sad to say. Police are commonly trained to regard anyone carrying a firearm, even in an open carry state, even on their own property as a dangerous criminal.

She had no business in her own backyard? Why?

Because those keystone cops were there to protect her?

Regardless she still shot at the police.

I would.

Why?

Oh, sorry! I would need to say "Police! Drop your weapon!" not just "Drop your weapon!"

You actually do make a good point as people can easily impersonate police officers.

In the Land of the Free, you get shot by the cops on your own property, in the UK, we just shut the door -

Private video.

 

[hadit]

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.

That would leave her armed and out of visual sight, which means she could start firing from concealment. When investigating, LEO need to know threats are eliminated.

 

[stan ford 4]

1. ....not a bunch of vigilante people running around carrying guns too, possibly shooting at each other.

So being aware and defending yourself and family is a vigilante. Got it.