Audio from bystander video indicates 11 shots were fired before Wilson died from two gunshot wounds, while the department’s posted policy sharply restricts shooting at moving vehicles.

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    Someone attacked a vulnerable minority, she fought back, cuttin’ a bitch. She freaked out, drove away from police, and they shot her for it. There’s been no indication that she was ever a threat to these cops.

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    ‘shoot first ask questions later’ is not policing. It is gross misconduct.

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    Shot dead because this is MURiCAHHH. And we are sociopaths here. USA USA USA… 🤮

    Edit:
    To the idiot that downvoted, what other country have you heard of where police has shot a woman for defending herself?

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      To the idiot that downvoted

      TBF, as someone else pointed out, people may click on up or down accidentally.

      Also, sometimes there have been rather…hot takes. For instance, I’ve just asked the question about why AI data centers seem to be the one issue that galvanizes resistance, and that question was downvoted like a mofo, LOL.

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        Seems like resistance to AI is religious here for some reason.
        Usually I would write “almost” on such issues, but it’s so bad I can’t in good faith call it only almost.

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      As usual trans women are just seen as “acceptable” targets. Those cops have been itching to murder a minority and finally got what they saw as their opportunity. They knew what they were doing.

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        In a civilized country, that officer would be tried for murder.
        I am not aware of any other democracy where the police can run around killing people at will and even in their homes, without being tried for murder.
        When I write democracy I know USA is not really a democracy, but only a flawed democracy, or a 2nd rate democracy.

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      To the idiot that downvoted, what other country have you heard of where police has shot a woman for defending herself?

      You want a full list of countries? Or are we restricting this to a single continent? Or NATO block? Or what?

      Because Israel is some low hanging fruit.

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      China. But they’re more about black bagging you and taking you to a facility. To be technical “trans” magically doesn’t exist in China, they’ve all been killed, beaton to the point of they’re “not trans” anymore or hiding hoping no one finds out.

      You can downvote the fuck out of me, but it doesn’t mean it isn’t true because you don’t like it.

      PS I didn’t downvote you, just answered your question.

      Edit. Pretty much any Islamic country too. Forgot to add Russia, they’re homophobic as shit.

      What you need to understand is in these countries, their governments control news, period. These things happen all over, you just won’t hear about them because that’s how they work. The US along with other first world countries share and report information. So it’s incredibly easy to criticize them when horrible things like this happen. It’s hard to criticize something that’s never released.

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      To the idiot that downvoted, what other country have you heard of where police has shot a woman for defending herself?

      Not to diminish the point being made, but there are a lot of countries that commit widespread or even state-sanctioned violence against women. Most of them are third-world hellholes. So the US is in good company.