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In reply to the discussion: Cops Kill Unarmed Woman in Brooklyn [View all]Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)29. Ooooh, the poor angel.
A woman was fatally shot by a plainclothes New York City police detective on Thursday after running a series of red lights in a stolen vehicle in Brooklyn, colliding head-on with a minivan, then scrambling to evade the police, the authorities said.
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(She) was scheduled to appear in court on Friday on charges of kidnapping, attempted murder, possession of a loaded weapon and burglary. On May 5, 2011, Mr. Browne said, the woman was arrested in a burglary, in which she and two others armed with a silver revolver forced their way into the Brooklyn home of a 29-year-old man, ordered him to tell them the location of money and shot him four times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/nyregion/woman-shot-by-police-in-brooklyn-after-car-crash.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion
I have to say, I'm inclined to give the cops the benefit of the doubt on this one.
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(She) was scheduled to appear in court on Friday on charges of kidnapping, attempted murder, possession of a loaded weapon and burglary. On May 5, 2011, Mr. Browne said, the woman was arrested in a burglary, in which she and two others armed with a silver revolver forced their way into the Brooklyn home of a 29-year-old man, ordered him to tell them the location of money and shot him four times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/nyregion/woman-shot-by-police-in-brooklyn-after-car-crash.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion
I have to say, I'm inclined to give the cops the benefit of the doubt on this one.
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"after she tried to drive backwards as two officers were entering the vehicle"
jberryhill
Jun 2012
#8
Please don't conflate use of force in self-defense with the administration of justice
slackmaster
Jun 2012
#15
she was due in court today for attempted murder and was driving a car-jacked car
Bacchus4.0
Jun 2012
#27