My entire point is that it has nothing to do with race. Its not like the officer shot her BECAUSE she was black which is the implication of the headline.
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Texas police officer shoots woman to death inside her home
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So what is the solution that you have for the problem with inter-city crime? Black on black crime is more prevalent than white on black crime, but where's the outcry about that?
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You know its interesting that you say I'm delusional because its not happening to me but I actually work in downtown fort worth on a 911 ambulance and see first hand what happens. The hurt and pain I see bothers me, and the amount of times I've seen police go OUT of their way to help people that have been hurt by others is way more than I can count even after 1 year. Yet all of you think that one officer making a mistake defines the entirety of the police department as a whole.
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This thread is not about inner city crime is it? It is about a woman getting shot and killed by a police officer in her own home.
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The headline doesn't imply the officer shot her because she was black, you applied that to the headline, which was my point.
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Please do not attempt to put words into my mouth. I never said you were delusional. And you are taking offense when we are not discussing you. So you are what is considered a first res ponder. I am sure you have see a lot of tragedy. The story in the article is a tragedy, but you do not seem to think it ranks with other tragedies.
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I don't think this tragic event had to do with race, but I do question the course of action by the officer. I feel that saying there was a gun in the house was a way to justify it somehow, that's terrible.
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If you check out the video at the link, it looks like it to me.
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No we're not discussing me, and it isn't about me, but I have personal testimony of what its like in Fort Worth and that's what I was giving.
My point ultimately is not that this isn't a tragedy - it is, and justice needs to be had for it. But if the only time we care about the lives of people is when they get killed by a police officer, then nothing is going to change. We have a society bent and geared toward violence and paranoia. Officers unjustly killing innocent civilians is a symptom of the larger problem - and that problem isn't discriminatory or corrupt police departments per se.
I post all of this because this thread is a cataloging of one issue that is part of the bigger picture - that picture being that violence is resorted to first more these days than ever before and people are getting hurt because of it.
Some are going to take this story and use it to argue reformation in policing, which may be necessary. But why isn't anybody taking stories like these and arguing against the normalization of violence within our culture? To me, that's the injustice.
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Has anyone seen the body cam yet? Or is it yet another one of those that conveniently malfunctions just in time, is conveniently pointed in the wrong direction, or that the police refuse to release in it's ENTIRETY? That happens a lot.
I hear that a 2nd cop was there but his/her body cam has not been released.
This isn't about needed re-training. It's about common sense. The officer could have easily retreated and called in backup or a swat team to smoke the place.
I hear that a 2nd cop was there but his/her body cam has not been released.
This isn't about needed re-training. It's about common sense. The officer could have easily retreated and called in backup or a swat team to smoke the place.
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I agree, it looks like a bad shooting. I mean didn't he expect someone to be home? I watched the clip that was at the link. It looked to me as if the officer was in the garage and not in the house proper. He did not identify himself as police either before he shot. Actually he did not even give opportunity for her to comply with his command before he shot.
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So my point is that if they are scared, they do not need to be police officers. They should be trained how to deal with open garage doors. I say garage door because it looked like he was in the garage in the clip. The article is misleading if that is the case. People do leave their garage doors open. Sometimes they forget to close them.I would never call the cops if I saw a garage door open. In the clip, it looked to me as if the other doors were closed and the officer saw the woman through a window.
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