Somehow this is the only country on earth where this seems to happen. When talking about shootings involving guns, okay, fine, the US is certainly an outlier there, but every country has cars and police.

This is murder.

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I mean, could he not just have taken the license plate number then sent agents to go knock on her door later? This is shoplifting, not armed robbery.

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Driving a car without plates is extremely common in this area. It has been ever since they suspended registration requirements during Covid. I see multiple cars without plates every time I go for a drive.

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Oh I dont have my plates I’ll just tape up this piece of paper in my rear window and no one will care

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Was there any evidence that the car didn’t have plates

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She drove forward with the officer directly in front of the vehicle. Regardless of what happened previously, thats an action that could kill someone.

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Isn’t it kinda stupid of the police officer to put himself in that dangerous position. He could just as well have let her go and find her later or follow her. Trying to stop a car by standing in front of it is imo. just stupid and unprofessional.

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US cops are the kind to pull out a guy’s multitool, fold out the knife, put it in the guy’s hand, grab their hand and hold it at their own throat.

Then waiting for them to twitch, so they can shoot them dead.

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Standing in front of the car wasn’t a smart thing to do, I agree with you there. “Let her go and find her later” isn’t really how it works though.

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The cop deliberately walked in front of her car and pointed a gun at her. She panicked. I’d probably panic too if someone pointed a gun at me. Granted, I probably wouldn’t have drove forward, but it was entirely possible for the cop to not have walked in front of her car, for him not to have pulled a gun. It seems like him pulling the gun is what caused this.

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Flooring it at someone, yes. Slowly moving forward and turning away, not so much.

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You can definitely kill someone by slowly driving over them

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Yeah probably not the best to drive at police. Amazed that even needs to be said and isn’t obvious to most people

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Man, there’s some cooked people in here.

You could murder an officer in cold blood and they’d find a way to justify it.

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