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.

  • @BongRipsMcGee420
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    1232 years ago

    Funny how “fatally shot” takes the sting out of “gunned down” or “killed”.

      • @meco03211
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        122 years ago

        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.

      • @sunbytes
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        82 years ago

        “heavy metal poisoning”

        “Haemorrhagic issue” (i.e. bled to death on the kerb)

    • Alien Nathan Edward
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      142 years ago

      Officer-adjacent ballistic event resulted in a cessation of vitality in a non-suspect personage

      They take your life in the street, then they take your humanity at the press conference.