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Somehow this is the only country on earth where this seems to happen. When talking about shootings involving guns, okay, fine, the US is certainly an outlier there, but every country has cars and police.

This is murder.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 96 points 2 years ago (49 children)

How should this have been handles instead? If she really really doesn't want to comply, You write down her license place, and you let her go.

That simple.

You have her face on video, you have the license plate, it's trivial to then go visit her at her home and have a talk. Hell, follow her if you have to, but not in a high speed chase. Just keep your distance, let her go where she wants to go until she's done.

Worst case scenario, you just let her go.

This extreme focus on that every petty little thing MUST be stopped, every small time offender MUST comply only ends in this. Suffering.

Instead focus on fixing poverty and you know, making sure that pregnant women have all they need so that they don't need to steal? That is why we banned abortion, no? Because we care about babies?

Oh yeah that's right. We care about unborn fetuses, but born babies can get fucked.

Let this woman have an abortion if she can't afford a baby. Now she doesn't need to shoplift, at least not for the baby

Lift people out of poverty. Push people to be better educated. THOSE are things that will actually lower crime rates but then it means they ml o longer are the common pulp that can stand on

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago

She "disrespected" the cop by trying to resist therefore she must be destroyed because every fucking cop has a ego problem. Had to "set an example".

[–] Shush@reddthat.com 15 points 2 years ago

That is why we banned abortion, no? Because we care about babies?

No, we banned abortion to keep controlling women and make sure they keep their head low and their financial situation lower. And it works so well that they have to shoplift, in which case we can justify killing them. Mission accomplished!

Honestly, fuck humanity.

[–] Imotali@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's also a massive waste of money and resources that could be used to fight actual, real crime.

[–] Rev3rze@lemdit.com 7 points 2 years ago

I'm guessing the time and ammo it took to kill her amounts to more dollars lost than she could ever shoplift for. Did the store get their money back? No? Then what the fuck was the point? Who was actually helped that day?

The point of having police is to make society livable. This seems to be the opposite of that.

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But that's dangerous... Real criminals might fight back. Some ~~cops~~ delicate flowers might get hurt.

[–] Imotali@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I consider cops being "removed from duty" a net benefit to society so.....

[–] stringere@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hard shit take: she really doesn't need to shoplift now, for herself or the baby.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Uh huh. Probably.

Depending on poverty levels, she actually might have to. Not saying shoplifting is fine, but it might help to keep in mind that if people cat fed their children the legal way that they will move to crime to do so. Whether they caused their own situation (at least in part) or not doesn't matter in that equation.

Also, again, you don't murder somebody (actually, somebodies, according to their own laws as she was pregnant) for stealing a few items. There are better ways of handling that.

None of the wrongs she did justify what happened

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