It's election season, and there's a video of a cop shooting a mentally ill old black woman who was trying to throw boiling water on them. The usual arguments are happening of course, but it's not dominating the news like it normally would.
Two possibilities stick out to me as plausible.
One is that the Dems and their mouthpieces in the MSM are sitting and waiting to push this story at the right moment, as they've calculated that it isn't a good time to make it go viral yet. While the other possibility is that they've simply dropped the BLM shit because even their own voters are sick and tired of it, which the election of Eric Adams over Maya Wiley among many other developments was already indicative of.
The fact that Kamala has a record as a "tough on crime" DA and AG and was roasted by her own side for trying to ride the BLM wave probably makes it next to impossible for Dems to promote chimpouts with her as their candidate.
I've definitely noticed an angle to the gender war among blacks being that black women are more apt to be stridently pro-cop (God help anyone who's ever at the mercy of a black female cop btw), and to say the quiet part out loud about how black male criminals won't stop unless you're ruthless with them. Considering that black men probably despise Kamala as the epitome of a bossy black woman, and how Trump is a felon who was shot at, I have to wonder how that'll affect the black male vote - not that I'm holding my breath.
Now that black girl magic boss babe police brutality is the hot new thang, white women are also feeling emboldened to say the quiet part out loud. "Karen" doesn't really work anymore either. I've long believed that Western police states would ultimately ground their legitimacy in feminist rhetoric, of course that's already blatantly been the case in the UK for a long time so it's not like I'm Nostradamus here.
Plus VAWA was in and of itself a huge expansion of the American police state. Funnily enough, back in the day Biden got Bernie to vote for the 94 crime bill by pairing it with VAWA, and Bernie supporters talk about that like it was a dirty trick, but if you really think about it, Biden was being the more logically consistent one, since VAWA and the crime bill both meant more blacks in prison LOL!
Honestly, I'm one of the few people that actually thinks this shooting was "Awful but lawful". Video
He was allowed to shoot her for being attacked with scalding water. He was attacked with scalding water, for some reason, people aren't seeing this in the badge cam. He didn't shoot until that happened.
Where he looks guilty as fuck is his attitude. He was initially quite abrasive because she didn't answer the door. His attitude didn't get better as they went into the house, which he didn't have to do. He asked for an ID, rather than just letting her spell out her name. She didn't need to give him an ID. When she said "I rebuke you in the name of jesus", he said he'd shoot her in the fucking face (which is word for word exactly what he did), and isn't necessarily a threat by itself. When she ducked down, he pursued her and got close, rather than just backing off and leaving.
He really was on full "predator drive" mode the entire time. He took every step to escalate a situation's tension, without ever taking a single step back. He was looking for a reason to put her in prison. He's literally the reason I don't call cops: I don't want him anywhere near an emergency situation because he's looking to go after me the second he arrives on scene, even if I'm the victim, because I inconvenienced him with my emergency.
However, there was no murder here, and there was no cover-up. He's likely going to get convicted because he's a cunt.
It doesn’t look like she “attacked” him at all. It looked more like she spilled it in confusion while trying to pour it out after he screamed at her to put the pot down before she was even holding it. At absolutely no point was the cop in any danger at all, and I personally don’t believe he was even justified in pulling out his gun at all let alone firing it. I’m a big ol racist misogynist but this cop is a fucking menace to society and I hope he rots in prison for the rest of his life for this pointless murder of an innocent woman in her own home.
His prior record agrees with you. Him still being on the force for this incident to happen is proof of how impossible it is to actually get fired as a cop no matter how bad you are.
Check out the body cam again. The moment he fired, she'd already lept up from the ground and was throwing the pot. She didn't spill it at all. She threw it. If you watch the body cam footage of the shooting officer, you can see between his fore-arms that she jumps up, grabs the pot, and throws it at him. The pot itself comes to a rest on the chair in front of him, with steam pouring off it.
The cop was in danger when she was holding boiling water, but he was far enough away that he would have been fine where he stayed. Pulling the gun is actually a good idea in this case, because the range of the gun is superior to that of the pot. But, once he approached her, after she ducked down, he ended up putting himself in danger (also his partner flagged the shit out of him). Approaching her was not really the right call in that situation.
I'm in agreement here. She clearly caused what was coming to her, but only because the cops have the right of way everytime, even if being retarded, legally.
The cop overreacted early on and turned the situation up to 11, which is how it proceeded to the place it was. Just because you can act like a fucking chimpout, doesn't mean you should.
Also yeah, he was near instantly charged for it. So there wasn't enough to build a grift story off of him.
Honestly, I think this is the primary problem. I think the cop was actually looking to try and get something on her to take her to jail. He probably thought she was a drug user that wasted his time, and he was gonna get payback on that, he started doing fucky little things that cops tend to do when they want you to incriminate yourself. I don't think he wanted to shoot her, but I think he would have been glad if she threw a punch so he could cart her off to jail. Effectively, he was looking for a "chimpout" and he got one.
I think that's probably accurate enough. You don't just go 0 to "I'll fucking shoot you in the face" without already being worked up before you even enter.
Especially as, all things equal, the correct choice would have been to tell her to back away from the stove and himself turn the stove off of boil. Him demanding she do it and then acting terrified that she was then going to attack him with a weapon he told her to get rid of is basically setting her up for failure.
Honestly, he could have just said, "You know what, fuck this" and left. The purpose of the interaction was already over.
I see this point and if she indeed threw the pot at him, that might be enough justification. Then again, I don't know if it's possible for him to get off a la the Daniel Shaver case, since the victim is black.
It's probably not. One of the reasons they tell cops not to curse is because you'd better fucking believe that the prosecutors will use it as a weapon against you in court. And in this case, he specifically threatened to shoot her in the face, which he then proceeded to do. I don't even think he intended to shoot her in the head specifically, he just intended to shoot her in that moment. None of that changes the lethality of the shooting, mind you. However, a jury is going to look at that an it's going to sound like Mens Rea (having a criminal mind).
Even in a legitimate, private, self-defense case. You don't want to say crazy shit like, "Yup, I shot that faggot in the head and his skull popped like a freakin' watermelon... ha ha ha!" The prosecutor will try to get you on murder charges with nothing more than that. I understand that people act weird during shootings, but that's not going to be convincing to a jury made up of 50 year old eggless white women who unironically called themselves Cuomosexuals a few years ago. That would be a lynching jury. They might honestly convict you for saying the word "faggot" alone.