As opposed to what happened with Christa Pike? A firing squad is a mercy kill.

I think there's a fix for that....

Idk, I’ve heard some stories. Like some of the cases where they missed the heart and the person just bleeds out, in pain, for half an hour.

At least they're more likely to do a better job than the fiasco with Christa Pike....

"I know we created our overwhelming police state at the last Olympics in LA, but these flock Axon cameras are so expensive! We have to increase the mass surveillance and policing like crazy so we can oppress brown people even more keep our city safe"

I see some folks discussing the role cops had in this awful situation, whether chasing or not chasing could have prevented the death of the little boy. I'd like to draw attention to another idea, though - the idea that this could have been prevented at the root. Why was a 21-year-old trying to rob a house? If she's struggling for money, then we need stronger supports so that people like her aren't placed in a position of needing to commit a burglary to stay afloat. If she has some kind of mental struggle, then she needed mental health support, therapy, etc. If she did it just because she's 21 and thought it'd be fun, why does she think that way? What need or lack was she trying to remedy by doing a crime?

The whole system is corrupted through and through. Let's consider how we can build new and better systems so that police aren't needed in the first place.

This isnt fucking hard. No cops. Bitch wasn't speeding. Cops see her, they go, "BOGIE IN HEMINGWAY COURT, I REPEAT, BOGIE IN HEMINGWAY COURT" and rip through the fucking city like rabid animals. So she does something quite reasonable and gets the fuck out of there, fast. You're putting all the onus on someone who did not even commit a violent crime. We dont even know what she stole from it could have been fucking Walmart but the article doesnt say.

Ok. Well I think she was going to kill someone eventually. Maybe she's been driving recklessly for years and finally this time karma caught up with her? We just don't know. What we do know is she killed a 13 year old boy on a bike ride. That's unacceptable to me. I want all drivers who kill vulnerable people with their cars to be charged with murder!

I'm not saying shes good. I'm saying her actions would have been different if the cops were less interested in being action heroes than saving lives. They should not have chased her. There was no real reason they had to.

I hate car drivers and think they are all entitled pieces of shit. If a cop hit the kid I would totally agree with you! My issue here is this women fled and sped away right when she saw the police. Then she ran stop signs, hit and dragged a kid and kept on driving. I think that's what is evil about it. At least stop and render aid!

Would the woman have fled if the cops didnt chase her? The question is not one of who is most evil, but what actions could be taken to reduce suffering the most. Or, you could just be fucken smart about it, she was going somewhere, presumably at normal speeds. Why not get her where shes going? Why is it some Time Crisis event where you need to roar your engines and get her NOW NOW NOW. Makes no sense. The article goes on to mention many more biking deaths this year. Maybe if we didnt decide the only way to travel was to pay the fattest grubs buckets of money to stretch a four ton beast down a spackle of asphalt this wouldnt even be possible.

Who is more evil? The cops that tried to pull this woman over or the woman who killed the kid then dragged his body and still didn't stop?

Cops dont chase people for minor property crime, especially when they know exactly what vehicle they are in and where that vehicle is registered.

There's your bullshit. Roll a stop sign in front of a cop and then refuse to stop. You think they're just going to take your tag number, pull back over in the next parking lot, and go back to paperwork?

Vibe policing

A car driven by a woman believed to be involved in the burglary was seen leaving the area, and fled when the cops attempted to pull her over.

For all those paragraphs you sure dont read. We know she sped off when the cops tried to pull her over. It says so right fucken here in the linked article. You are just making excuses for cops being fuccen stupid.

I get that youre one of those people who doesn’t give a shit about the actual facts of the situation and wouldnt change your mind regardless, but Ill make the point even clearer anyways.

The distance between the house that was robbed and the intersection where she hit the kid is 1.2 miles driving. We dont know if she was already driving recklessly and fleeing the scene before the cops arrived, which is entirely possible. But lets be generous and assume that she was driving the speed limit until the cops tried to pull her over

We know they did that away from the street where the crime was committed. Again we can be generous and say it happened at the Huston/Bradley intersection. Thats 3/4s of the distance from the house to the intersection. If she was driving 45mph until that point, it would have taken her like 40 seconds. If she then took off up to 80+mph, she would have been going 1.3mi per minute, and would have closed the remaining 0.5miles in around 20 seconds. Again we made some very generous assumptions that could have been incorrect, and the time could have been far shorter.

20 seconds is hardly enough time for a chase to have even been initiated. It’s hardly enough time for the driver to decide to stop fleeing or realize the cops backed off if they did. I dont understand how youre so certain that this article is not a very sensationalized portrayal of the events that occurred. The events are certainly not as the article implies that they are at the very least. At most she could have hit the kid like 2 minutes after running out of the house. It probably was even less time than that

The irony in all this is that you probably wont even read this comment, meanwhile you accuse me of not caring about the situation. Obviously I care enough to have written this much about it, but I doubt you care to even think about it long enough to even consider what happened

Its not bullshit. Cops chased a woman unnecessarily and that lead to the death of a child. If anyone needs their opinions rearranged on the matter its not the person who thinks this isnt worth the life of another human.

The fucking story

It doesnt make any sense because the story is fabricated. Cops dont chase people for minor property crime, especially when they know exactly what vehicle they are in and where that vehicle is registered.

The story is bullshit and made to make it sound like they were chasing her for 10 minutes over a nothingburger crime when she hit the kid. Which is bullshit. Accept it or not. I dont like cops, but I also dont like people who let their hatred of one thing or another get in the way of actual logic and reason in assessing some situation.

The cops dont have control over someone fleeing. What were they supposed to do? Just not try to pull her over after she burglarized a house? They have control over not chasing her, which it reasonably seems like they didnt until AFTER she killed a child. That entire length of Bradley/Holland before she hit the kid could be driven in less than a minute at the speed limit. It would be a manner of seconds at 60-80+mph

Grow up

Its wild no one told you to jump through these mental hoops to justify the actions of cops and yet you still did it.

Tbh id want to know how long the time period was between when they first tried to pull her card and when she hit the boy. If they had just tried to pull her over a second before, and then she took off at high speed then they wouldnt have actually been chasing her for a minor crime. It would just be her fleeing. Then at that point she hits the boy, which obviously they would actually chase her for

I could see that being the case pretty easily, but it doesnt make for as juicy of an ACAB story

Edit: looking at maps it would seem that is exactly what happened. The crime occurred, she was on Holland or Bradley when the cop tried to pull her, and then one or two blocks later she smokes the kid. Then actually got chased for that, not for the property crime

They’re full of insecurity and they couldn’t beat their wives at the time

Why are the police getting into Fast & Furious chases for fucking non violent crimes?

I really wrote off your comment until that parenthetical lol

Abolishing crime reduces it even more

(not being facetious)

Abolishing money reduces it even more