“While attempting to take the man into custody, he did not comply with multiple commands to stop, and he physically resisted when troopers tried to remove him from the car,” a state police statement said.
    “Troopers shot the man when he continued to drive in a manner that placed officers in imminent danger,” the statement continued.

    Why kill him, though? Why even try to pull him out of the car? Cops have the perp cornered in his car, so why didn’t they let the air out of all four tires, and sit in the squad car eating doughnuts until he gets bored and gives up?

  • Grammaton Cleric
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    121 year ago

    “Troopers shot the man when he continued to drive in a manner that placed officers in imminent danger”

    Try to hit cops with your car? Believe it or not, straight to the afterlife.

    • Doug HollandOP
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      521 year ago

      Claiming “he was gonna run me down” is an excruciatingly common cop lie. I’ll believe it when there’s video that shows it.

      • @Juvyn00b
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        121 year ago

        “they’re coming right at us” as seen in South Park

        • @Madison420
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          Dumber, they first place themselves in the way or hop in their window because for police these are apparently intelligent choices.

      • @[email protected]
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        Uh, if you have time to aim and shoot you have time to just fucking move? Like, just because you kill the driver doesn’t mean the car doesn’t stop moving.

        • Flying Squid
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          41 year ago

          Didn’t you know? Police roots are very deep.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        The video of the woman getting shot. The cop purposefully stood in front of her PARKED car and shot her because he thi ks he can get away with saying “she was going to run me down.” And the scary part is he might be right

        • Doug HollandOP
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          That strategy is so commonplace that I suspect it’s part of police training.

        • Limitless_screaming
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          The police are known to lie a lot, and if they have body cams on them, then it’s reasonable to ask for that footage.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Like the footage of the Ohio woman being shot on suspicion of shoplifting in her parked car after the police officer walked in front of her parked car