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White cops, from a department that the Feds have said has a history of widespread excessive force shoot pregnant black female with mental health issues that was known to the police as being a potential threat when she confronted them with a knife after supposedly calling them to report a burglary and the family says race is the cause.

Story here: Seattle police fatally shoot black mother of four who they say ‘confronted’ officers with a knife

Seattle police officers shot and killed a 30-year-old mother of four at her apartment Sunday morning in front of “several children” when the woman “confronted” them with a knife, according to a statement from authorities. The Seattle Times said she had called police to report a possible burglary.
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Usually, only one officer would respond to a standard burglary call like this one, Jamieson told reporters. But police were familiar with Lyles and her apartment, he said, and her called flagged “hazard information” affiliated with her apartment that “presented an increased risk to officers,” the detective said.
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Family members told the Seattle Times that they believe Lyles race — she is black — was a factor in her death. Seattle police told the newspaper that the officers who shot her are white.
 
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I'm not usually one to support the cops, but I do know some LEOs in the Charlotte area. This is another example where the officers have to solve problems in the community created by lax parents, school teachers, and then doctors and judges who keep kicking the can down the road. Leave it to the cops to sort it out in the end.

Face it, they are not professionally trained to solve life's shortcomings in a split second, having to act as quasi-lawyers, social workers, and at the same time practice self-defense in order to return home safety to their families at night.
 
Face it, they are not professionally trained to solve life's shortcomings in a split second, having to act as quasi-lawyers, social workers, and at the same time practice self-defense in order to return home safety to their families at night.

Doesn't stop them from cashing the paycheck.

The job has some assumed risk.

Shooting the person who called to report the robbery in front of their kids never seems like a good thing, no matter what the color of the victim is.


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Just read another article that said the deceased was NOT armed with a knife.
 
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Where did you read she didn't have a knife? I just read and listened to ten reports that said she did have a knife and was approaching the officers on scene.

And, yes, this could get real ugly, real fast.
 
It takes a reasonable amount of problems to become a frequent flyer with a PD. Either assaults, law suits, or frivolous complaints. If she was tagged in the computer, that's telling about their dealings with her in the past. They were not good. Terrible ending, non the less. But this is one I would give time to sort out before questioning it so much. This was not a random problem, it sounds like the culmination of ongoing problems.
 
White cops, from a department that the Feds have said has a history of widespread excessive force shoot pregnant black female with mental health issues that was known to the police as being a potential threat when she confronted them with a knife after supposedly calling them to report a burglary and the family says race is the cause.

Story here: Seattle police fatally shoot black mother of four who they say ‘confronted’ officers with a knife
The case that has it all. Or nothing depending on how you look at it.

White cops... said someone who wasn't there and is not a part of the department. So maybe white, maybe not.

Department with a history of excessive force... Does that include these officers or does old allegations prove this was excessive? No.

Pregnant... Is there a pregnancy hormone that makes a woman incapable of violence? We know the opposite to be true. Does pregnancy give someone the right to cut a couple of guys unchallenged?

Mental issues... Does that make someone less or more dangerous?

Race the cause... Says possible racist black folks that weren't there. I'll withhold judgement here.

Maybe we should find a better poster child.
 
If she has mental health issues, who got her pregnant 5 times?

There is this mentally challenged woman back home, she is 370lbs 5'6 or so and ugly to boot. She has had at least 4 kids by the local crack head. Point is there is always someone willing.
 
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