• Pavidus@lemmy.world
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    Accused of stealing 20 dollars worth of diapers? Death penalty without trial for you and the occupants of your vehicle.

    Also, you want the footage that your tax dollars paid for? Fuck you.

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      That’s one thing, another question is, what kind of society we are living in where a mother is forced to steal diapers?

      I also see stores that put baby formulas behind lock.

      Those are not some luxurious items, those things people would only steal if they had no other choice.

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      ++downvote shield

      Technical correction: She’s accused of driving her vehicle towards officers, which they used to justify the shooting.

      Disclaimer: I am not saying the shooting was justified. I know nothing about where the officers were or how she was driving.

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    Wow so the extraducial execution of innocent babies is justified for the petty crime of shoplifting in Mississippi? That is fuckin crazy. The attorney general is a demonic souless hag.

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    in what SHIT HOLE country do ‘cops’ draw weapons for stolen diapers?!?!

    the diapers were insured with loss prevention, deadly force was NOT justified.

    BLACK LIVES MATTER

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    Murdering a mother and baby over a package of diapers.

    Welcome to trump’s police state.

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      Giving trump ownership gives him far more credit than his ego deserves. This has been a long time in the making, he’s just the latest in the long line of demagogues.

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        This is racism that’s been festering forever. The Boomers couldn’t let it go and passed it on. Greatest generation my ass

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          The greatest generation are the guys who fought WW1. They called the boomers the “me” generation, lmao.

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          The Boomers couldn’t let it go and passed it on. Greatest generation my ass

          Just a heads up, that’s not another term for Baby Boomer and has never been associated with them. The Greatest Generation were born between 1901 and 1927. Boomers were born between 1946 and 1964. And there’s an entire generation, appropriately called the Silent Generation, separating them.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Generation

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        Yeah, this is Mississippi police killing 2 a black people person. Unfortunately that’s nothing new, but it’s still something to be angry about

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      Buddy, this is as American as apple pie, lmao. Where do you think the police came from? They used to be slave catchers!

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      We’ve been killing black babies longer than Trump’s been around but yeah, I’m not keen on the mask coming fully off. It’s gonna get loud in here.

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    America is crazy. A women does shoplifting and officers shoot at her? I don’t know if you guys know how insane your country is.

    Dont you have some law that officers only can use deadly force when their life or someone else’s life is in danger?

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      Not just shoplifting but literally stole a pack of diapers. People don’t steal diapers for fun, that’s obviously someone who was out of options, and took the only option left to her

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        Shops are also insured so it doesn’t even affect the owner. Some super rich insurance company gets to pay for a new pack of diapers.

        Compare this with what’s going on in France, where thousands of immigrants are rioting and burning down stores and cars. Millions of dollars in damage. The police there still just use tear gas and rubber bullets and haven’t killed anyone.

        America is in its own league of police brutality.

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            I dont watch TV news at all, but ive watched YouTube videos from the riots filmed by ordinary people. That’s probably as close to the truth you can get without being there.

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              As some late night host said (Stewart?): do you think immigrants are the ones who are rioting IN FRANCE?

              Let me give you a hint: one of the places they rioted was the Bastille square.

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                Videos show black men with red, white, green flags so yes, it’s not the native French. :)

                Of course it’s immigrants.

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      She was also driving in the direction of the police officers. What else were they supposed to do? Stand out of they way? Not shoot a one year old child?

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        We haven’t seen the body warn yet, but the issue is why is shooting at her automatically justified in this context? Driving at officers or not. Why did officers put themselves in the position to be driven at, why not just tail her and pull her over, why not get her registration and go to her address. There are far more alternative options than (as seems to the standard) going for maximum force first.

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          why is shooting at her automatically justified

          The cop saw her holding up a baby. He was shooting at the baby.

          Presumably this was justifiable self defense because the baby was the reason the mother needed diapers and if she hadn’t needed diapers the cop would not be fearing for his life at that moment

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              We are being very sarcastic, the disassociation helps me process a tragedy like this. There is absolutely no context that would make this justifiable, the fact that a judge still deemed it so shakes me to my core.

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          Tailing people ends up in high showed chases and kills others, not really an option.

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      Surely you are not only thinking now, that America is crazy, right? I mean, they legit elected a fucking child rapist to be their president. Only in America™, ladies and gentlemen.

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      Freedom to the fullest, especially to exploit.

      In the Land of The Free, you are obligated to kneel before your betters.

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      A women does shoplifting and officers shoot at her?

      Cops love to shoot people. You barely need to give them justification.

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      Dont you have some law that officers only can use deadly force when their life or someone else’s life is in danger?

      Qualified Immunity

      Im sure a bootlicker like you will absolutely adore the concept.if only the police in France could just murder who they want… right? Then the cost of living crisis will be resolved and the schools will be fully funded.

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      I blame the liberal gun laws. Because everyone potentially could be armed police officers constantly feel life threatened.

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        That’s no excuse.

        Soldiers being sent into literal combat against enemy troops have rules of engagement that don’t allow them to fire unless fired upon. Why do police dealing with civilians have less-strict rules of engagement?

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          Not to mention other countries also having crime, and criminals with guns. They don’t use their weapons against people who are not a danger to anyone.

          The mentality in America is difficult to understand from the outside. It’s very evil.

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            It’s difficult from the inside too.

            The problem is people here are used to it being “the way things are” so they don’t go through the mental exercise of trying to understand it. It’s seen as perfectly normal, so it’s never questioned.

            In the US the sky is blue, water is wet, and police are assumed to have been justified any time they kill someone.

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    The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, which investigated the shooting, alleged on the day of the shooting that “the driver drove in the direction of the officers, almost striking one.”

    As of press time, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety has released none of the video surveillance of the shooting of Kohen Wiley, neither the body-cam footage nor the overhead video from the Walmart parking lot where Wiley was shot. A short clip from a bystander was posted on the internet shortly after the shooting, showing neither the shots being fired nor the car driving towards officers.

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      Don’t forget:

      Neither woman has been charged with a crime, and officials have not released any evidence of shoplifting.

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      almost striking one.

      But… not … was she coming around for another pass? They had her fucking plates, just go pick her up at her house afterwards if she runs. This isn’t a situation that requires firearms.

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          Cloth diapers maybe. Disposable diapers are a plastic blight on our planet.

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            Congratulations. You are now responsible for buying everyone a washer, dryer, spray nozzle toilet attachment, and the maintenance thereof. You will also be responsible for a portion of their work in lieu of the time spent.

            Check your privilege.

            Signed, two kids that had cloth diapers.

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              The fuck? You can wash them by hand without any of that shit.

              Signed: A parent who used cloth diapers and never put shit diapers in a washing machine.

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              You definitely don’t need all that. Cloth diapers predate modern in-home washing machines. I had the “privilege” of being poor and raised in cloth diapers, back when food stamps were paper instead of a debit account, and if my parents could manage it there’s nothing stopping people today.

              Also, what a stupid position. “How dare you suggest people take some responsibility for their waste instead of choosing the most convenient, selfish option at every turn! Don’t you know the world was invented five years ago and old-fashioned sustainable solutions literally don’t exist?”

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      And they knew there was a baby in the car, and there has been no evidence released to indicate shoplifting of diapers in the first place. The murderer (cop, just to be crystal clear) should be in prison. This sounds like a total shitshow from the moment the cops were called

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    Thank GOD the Child was ONE YEARS OLD Instead of a Fetus! THAT would have been a Tragedy!

    -LITERALLY Pro Life Republicans!

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    In civilized countries, police officers are smart enough to just get out of the way of such a car, and deal with it later without shooting.

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        This is the same police station whose chief was just fired last month, for, get this, extremely vile racism.

        Just a wild coincidence, I’m sure. Also just a wild coincidence that the racist chief of police didnt punish the child murder when he was caught being racist:

        Since Vanderford took over as chief, Foster has separately faced at least two complaints that he used racially offensive language with co-workers, Mississippi Today reported in July and August. In the months leading up to the shooting, Foster referred to a Black officer as a “Black motherfucker” and directed another derogatory remark toward a white co-worker who has a daughter with a Black woman, according to internal department complaints.

        There’s no indication that Vanderford took any disciplinary action against Foster, who was allowed to remain on patrol.

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    This was in response to shoplifting!? SHOPLIFTING!?

    I guess that was on me for assuming the context would make this better and not 100 times worse.

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      But, didn’t you read? The officers said that the car may have went in their general direction.

      Stolen diapers for the one year old that the police slaughtered is justified to kill a black person.

      God I fucking hate this world.

      FFVII Revelation is coming. I’m stealing the black fucking materia and calling meteor myself

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      No this was the response because she was black and shoplifting. It was 100% a race thing.

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    Mississippi Department of Public Safety has released none of the video surveillance of the shooting of Kohen Wiley, neither the body-cam footage nor the overhead video from the Walmart parking lot where Wiley was shot.

    That shit would have been all over youtube the fucking day after the shooting if it was actually justified.

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      The unredacted videos.

      Though… I’m fine with reasonable censoring. Want to see the cops face consequences for their actions, not the blood/gore of a one year old.

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          They used that excuse to justify killing Renee Good when you could see in the video that she was driving away and the thug with a badge kept trying to put himself in the way