Destinee Thompson was supposed to be on her way to lunch with her stepmother in August 2021 when Colorado police, mistaking her for a robbery suspect, fatally shot the pregnant mother as she fled in her minivan.
Funny how “fatally shot” takes the sting out of “gunned down” or “killed”.
“Murdered Two Innocent People.” Allegedly. But also actually.
And it’s so easy to get around that too. Just say “the Police killed a woman…” That is an absolute fact. Not saying murder which is a crime that they haven’t yet been found guilty of.
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“heavy metal poisoning”
“Haemorrhagic issue” (i.e. bled to death on the kerb)
Snelling added that the agency later discovered Thompson had warrants out for her arrest and the autopsy found illicit drugs in her system.
Man, I hate it when the cops bring up this irrelevant bullshit. All they’re trying to do is make the victim look less sympathetic, and make themselves look less bad in comparison. Even if the officers had known about the warrants and drugs, these facts don’t make it okay to gun a woman down.
I wish reporters would flip this on the cops. “Two officers, with no active warrants, killed a woman.”
Go even further.
Two officers, one of which had 7 public complaints in their file, killed an unarmed pregnant women
“Two racist, wife beating police officers murdered a woman”
Ha ha ha! I would LOVE that!
Running from the police with an active arrest warrant while your high is pretty relevant lol
Afaik, running from the police also isn’t a reason for them to gun someone down.
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Qualified immunity is bad, but not pressing charges when you are able to and ought to is arguably worse.
Thompson, sitting in her minivan and surrounded by five officers, locked the doors and refused to get out, repeating, “It wasn’t me,” the district attorney wrote in the 2022 letter explaining their decision not to charge the officers.
One officer smashed the passenger window with a baton, and Thompson backed the car up, hitting a police vehicle parked behind her. She then drove forward over the curb and onto the road.
One officer began shooting, according to the district attorney’s letter, because he believed another officer was struck by the car or being dragged under it, and eventually shot and killed Thompson. Her unborn child also died.
Right out of the playbook.
- Terrify and/or physically attack the suspect.
- When the suspect responds as all humans do to being terrified or attacked:
- Ramp up the use of force, and if you don’t kill them you at least get to add resisting arrest or assaulting an officer.
- No worries if you’ve destroyed someone’s life, permanently decreased their overall health, or killed them. The taxpayers will pay the inevitable settlement, and there’s almost no chance of criminal charges.
Don’t forget it mentions she had warrants and illicit drugs in her system. Because then that justifies the shooting after the fact.
Right right, I left out the character assassination.
