THE POLICE PROBLEM

If you explode a baby's head with a gun, let's just skip the trial and send 'em straight to prison for the rest of their life because there's nothing left for you in this world. Your humanity card has been withdrawn.

The passive voice writing in this article is as usual playing defense for the police.

Independence police’s response to that 911 call ended with the shooting death of Pike, 34, and her two month old daughter, Destinii Hope. Let me rephrase this in a less passive way. The response to that 911 call from the independence police officer ended with him shooting Pike, 34 and her two month old daughter, Destinii Hope, to death.

I'm not implying this specific author or newspaper are writing in this style out of malice. I think this is part of a problem with the culture in journalism, because most articles on police violence are written this way.

"On administrative leave", Jesus fucking christ, fire and prosecute those fuck heads. This is well beyond gross negligence.

I saw part of one US police training video, and I'm not surprised by this outcome. They are brainwashed to fear for themselves and believe everyone is trying to kill them. Doesn't justify the crime, but this could have been any other cop, and it isn't enough to hold that one cop accountable.

If this was a war, this would have been a warcrime and the guilt falls on not just the soldier who fired the shot.

Pretty sure that damn criminal baby pulled a submachine gun out of his pillow ... The officer just defended himself. God bless him and his family. <3

the Police Involved Investigative Team, or PIIT, a team of eastern Jackson County detectives called in to investigate police shootings and use-of-force incidents.

They have a special task force of cops to investigate cop shootings in what looks like a single county.

Of course they do. Why am I surprised.

I guess this explains why they only solve just over a third of all violent crimes that happen in this country. They're too busy investigating themselves and finding nothing wrong.

Greenfield believes police could have used different methods to de-escalate the situation.

No effing shit Sherlock

The officer who fired his weapon was “a long-tenured veteran of law enforcement,” Dustman said.

So who else has he murdered in cold blood?

This city sounds like a shitshow, Social Services came the day before to take the baby but no one answered the door so they just left? They didn't even check with the apartment management office? My mom used to do that for a living and would always have the police come with her for any situation like that.

It obviously was a bad situation before the cops showed up, but the father was right to not let them in at first. This situation is exactly what the 'defund the police' slogan was aiming at, Social Services should have definitely responded with the police, really any time the police believe a child is involved.

Jesus christ. ACAB

No shit she reached for a knife. She had every right to stab that officer to death after he blew her baby's brains out right in front of her.

Was the baby resisting?

My dad used to use this technique to settle disputes: "if you are gonna fight over it, neither of you can have it!"

Though I don't recall him ever shooting a baby in the face so maybe these cops need more training.

Or some fucking lead to their own foreheads.

Is that too far? No. No I don't think it is.

I see some nasty comments on here. So I will add mine adjusted to the popo. The popo are basically criminal goons contracted by the city to ruin brown and black people's lives. Every single day there's gotta be some but of news where they end one of our brothers or sisters lives. Why do we let them do that to us?

Sure there are bad people who need to be in jail. Trump for example. But only the regular folks like you and I get to go to jail. Only our lives can be ruined. Touch the glass ceiling for long enough and you get to be slammed teeth first into the pavement for a supposed traffic violation which ended up with some baggies full of funny powder. Those fucking assholes are everywhere. It's time to abolish the police and instead enforce some sort of social help.

I swear, cops will shoot anything that moves, and then anything that doesn't, and then anything else.

I hate how much the police worries more about their egos and asserting authority than de-escalation and service to the community. They seem more emotionally unstable than the people they are supposed to help.

If that’s the response from an experienced officer, then there are serious issues with the whole system. There’s a baby on the scene and still their first impulse is to pull the trigger. Fuck them!

The USA never heard of tasers?

I mean you shouldn't tase everyone but at least if you shoot someone with it at least they are taken out of the equation with a high chance of survival.

Let's have a round of applause for the "good" guy with the gun.

Oh wait, ACAB. Especially this one. Can't wait till we collectively forget about it so the PIIT crew (or whatever they call themselves, I'm not going back) can clean up by sweeping it all under the rug.

this ‘news’ site is trash, fucking constant text disruptive ads

fuck this garbage, 5min and had to re focus text like every 30 seconds