The woman, Talisa Coombs, told Delaney she’d just gotten into what she alleged was a physical altercation with her granddaughter’s mother, Maria Pike, and called 911. Independence police’s response to that 911 call ended with the shooting death of Pike, 34, and her two month old daughter, Destinii Hope — who were identified Tuesday by authorities from 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.

The officer who fired his weapon was “a long-tenured veteran of law enforcement,” Dustman said. That officer and another two who were at the scene are on administrative leave.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article295483354.html

  • @MTK
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    2210 hours ago

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

    • @wurstgulasch3000
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      117 hours ago

      And then fire blindly at nothing at all (see the acorn incident)

      • @AnUnusualRelic
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        145 minutes ago

        Police readers have PTSD episode and shoot all the trees in the yard.

      • @MTK
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        12 hours ago

        I remember that 😮‍💨