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

  • @FabledAepitaph
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    711 month ago

    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 Your humanity card has been withdrawn.

    • @[email protected]
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      191 month ago

      if I had killed a little kid, accidentally or otherwise, I wouldn’t have thought twice. I’d killed myself on the fucking spot. On the fucking spot. I would’ve stuck the gun in me mouth. On the fucking spot!

      • @Dasus
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        101 month ago

        And the psyche of the cops is so bent that instead they go like “oh… whoops. my bad, guys, my bad.”

        • @beebarfbadger
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          81 month ago

          Not at all, they go “who can I blame for this?”, and then they set out to destroy that one’s life or legacy.

          • @Dasus
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            41 month ago

            Fuck. True enough

        • @Treczoks
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          530 days ago

          They don’t admit guilt. It is against Union rules. So forget about the “my bad”.

          • @Dasus
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            330 days ago

            Yeah I was overly optimistic when writing that comment, mb

    • @CompostMaterial
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      41 month ago

      Really? Prison wasn’t what I was thinking. Why waste tax payer dollars?

    • @patacon_pisao
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      41 month ago

      People like this deserve to be put in front of a firing squad with a target on their head to see if it explodes too, but I doubt it will because they probably have a thick skull.