One officer is seen standing at her door and repeatedly telling her to “get out of the car”.
    “For what?” she responds twice, adding: “I’m not going to do that.”
    One officer seen in front of the car has his left hand on the hood, his gun drawn in the other hand.
    “Are you going to shoot me?” she says moments before a single shot is fired and the officer quickly moves out of the car’s path.

    The cop who killed her was in no danger, and has time to casually stroll out of the way of the vehicle.

    What he doesn’t have is a name or a face — as often happens, the police haven’t been named, and their faces have been blurred in the video.

    Why?

If they weren’t cops — if they were just a pair of random dudes killing a black pregnant woman, and there was video footage — would their names remain secret, their faces blurred?

  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    On the blurring and name thing; as a general rule all crime suspects should always be treated like that. Even convicted criminals.

    Think about it. If you publish “first name last name is suspected of molesting children” with a face, then that person’s life is destroyed, even if it turns out they’re innocent.

    In the other hand if they’re found guilty, you will want that person to serve their time, rehabilitate, and then come back into society and continue a normal life without causing more trouble. If you publish names and faces, that’s no longer possible.

    Even in cases like these.

    Then again, in countries where they do do this, these police officers would likely already have been arrested for homicide.

    Edit: exceptions to these criminal privacy laws exist, mostly for when there are extreme circumstances, for example when a suspected crazy killer is on the lose and people need to avoid and report them

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    I don’t see the need to immediately gun someone down. She’s in a car for fuck’s sake, note down the plate and visit her when she’s calmed down.

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    Even if she committed a crime, cops are not judge jury and executioner.

    A judge with a conscience would give them the death penalty for this

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      11 months ago

      ALLEGEDLY shoplifting! The store worker could have been confused and it could be as simple as that, we don’t even know if she did the thing

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    What he doesn’t have is a name or a face — as often happens, the police haven’t been named, and their faces have been blurred in the video.

    It doesn’t matter, cops are fungible and all deserve consequences.

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    Maybe I’m crazy, but if police have a gun pointed at me and tell me to get out of the car, I’m just going to get out of the xar, knowing they might shoot me if I don’t.

    This can almost be considered suicide, knowing how bad police are with restraint.