This was in response to shoplifting!? SHOPLIFTING!?
I guess that was on me for assuming the context would make this better and not 100 times worse.
But, didn’t you read? The officers said that the car may have went in their general direction.
Stolen diapers for the one year old that the police slaughtered is justified to kill a black person.
God I fucking hate this world.
FFVII Revelation is coming. I’m stealing the black fucking materia and calling meteor myself
We live in hell.
She looks possessed.
Officer: don’t need any diapers now, do you? Now go return them before I charge you for child neglect for making me shoot him.
This was posted in wild news and the mods there had the Reddit style pin “don’t make fun of her appearance ewe’ll ban youuu”
Bunch of loser assholes
had stolen a pack of diapers. The women exited the store with the child as officers arrived, entered their vehicle and began to leave the parking lot. Officers drew their weapons, and Vellesiya Wiley lifted her son up to show the officers that a child was in the car. One officer fired into the vehicle, killing the baby as she held him.
stealing diapers or bread, should be a lesser crime, than stealing jewelry or clothing. Neither should justify shooting when running/driving away. If they put their hands up holding a baby, they are unlikely driving super fast, and may in fact doing step 1 of surrendering.
Even if a diaper thief were to use a hostage as human shield, shooting is only legally justified in Israel, where hannibal directive extended to civilians is part of their non-negotiation hatred towards the “palestinian problem”, and where Mississippi has and may still view violent oppression as the preferred “solution” to their racial tensions.
I was with you until the tinfoil hat israel bit. Weird, dude.
I often find myself sharing similar thoughts when reading comments that seem reasonable at first, but go off the deep end.
Any kind of stealing. I don’t care if they stole a diamond or the Mona Lisa, that doesn’t deserve the death penalty, much less an extrajudicial killing.
But as the other 49 say: thank God for Mississippi. And as the other 190 say: what the fuck is happening over there?
The only possible reason to shoot a thief imo is if they perhaps stole firearms or explosives, as one could reason they are stealing them imwkth I tent to cause great harm. But fucking diapers? Hell a car? It’s just stuff not to mention these stores all have theft insurance anyways!! Or it’s been accounted for (see inventory “shrink”)
This world is ripe for an uprising against the ruling class and their bootlickers. The problem is getting everyone to agree on what they want.
I just have a constant pit in my stomach, knowing every day the constant thoughts in my mind egging me into impulsive action may one day lead me to do something that in the end will just be used as “moral” fodder against neighbors and people I care about.
But truly, when is enough, enough?
Folks like to pretend Mississippi is the exemption. The bitter truth is that they’re just more naked in their cruelty.
We’re seeing Italy and France dissolve into police riots and neoliberal poverty just on the other side of the pond. We saw the same in Baltimore and St. Louis not that long ago.
Pro-life right there
Only care about unborn children. The 18 years between birth and legal adult they are property, like a pet dog.
americans
Are we even surprised? It’s Mississippi. People there still believe Emmet Till deserved to die.
I have got to say that I am in fact surprised. What kind of shithole country approves the use of lethal force in situations where violence can be avoided? As a European I can’t read this and say “well it’s probably just one of the shitty states.” I’m sorry but I wouldn’t feel safe in any corner of a country where this is allowed.
I can’t imagine moving to a country that just shrugs off the killing of a person because they were potentially trying to flee a crime scene. The fact that the person was a baby and that the crime was stealing one pack of diapers doesn’t make this any better or worse, but I suppose that it does reveal just how bizarre and deranged the people who rule this country are.
Racism plus culture of using guns to solve problems that didn’t need guns to be used to solve them.
always been like this.
Conservatives are inherently violent. They will always see justification for violence, especially against the most vulnerable.
I really wish I was surprised instead of just angry. But no, of fucking course a white AG in Mississippi sees nothing wrong with the extrajudicial police murder of a black infant over the theft of diapers. ACAB remains true, and I don’t care if the cop believes they’re in danger, they clearly have no idea what actual danger looks like, and they get paid putting everyone else in danger.
I wonder if having a black AG in Mississippi instead would have made a difference in this case?
America is crazy. A women does shoplifting and officers shoot at her? I don’t know if you guys know how insane your country is.
Dont you have some law that officers only can use deadly force when their life or someone else’s life is in danger?
Not just shoplifting but literally stole a pack of diapers. People don’t steal diapers for fun, that’s obviously someone who was out of options, and took the only option left to her
Edit to add: apparently she didn’t even steal the diapers! Some customer said they thought she did and she didn’t have the receipt (because who grabs the receipt when they go and buy a single consumable item?)
Shops are also insured so it doesn’t even affect the owner. Some super rich insurance company gets to pay for a new pack of diapers.
Compare this with what’s going on in France, where thousands of immigrants are rioting and burning down stores and cars. Millions of dollars in damage. The police there still just use tear gas and rubber bullets and haven’t killed anyone.
America is in its own league of police brutality.
You might be getting your news from Fox about France.
I dont watch TV news at all, but ive watched YouTube videos from the riots filmed by ordinary people. That’s probably as close to the truth you can get without being there.
As is commonly known, in France they brand the word “immigrant” on the forehead of immigrants for easy identification.
She was also driving in the direction of the police officers. What else were they supposed to do? Stand out of they way? Not shoot a one year old child?
We haven’t seen the body warn yet, but the issue is why is shooting at her automatically justified in this context? Driving at officers or not. Why did officers put themselves in the position to be driven at, why not just tail her and pull her over, why not get her registration and go to her address. There are far more alternative options than (as seems to the standard) going for maximum force first.
why is shooting at her automatically justified
The cop saw her holding up a baby. He was shooting at the baby.
Presumably this was justifiable self defense because the baby was the reason the mother needed diapers and if she hadn’t needed diapers the cop would not be fearing for his life at that moment
<insert drake confused meme>
We are being very sarcastic, the disassociation helps me process a tragedy like this. There is absolutely no context that would make this justifiable, the fact that a judge still deemed it so shakes me to my core.
Surely you are not only thinking now, that America is crazy, right? I mean, they legit elected a fucking child rapist to be their president. Only in America™, ladies and gentlemen.
murica fuck yea
A women does shoplifting and officers shoot at her?
Cops love to shoot people. You barely need to give them justification.
Freedom to the fullest, especially to exploit.
In the Land of The Free, you are obligated to kneel before your betters.
Land of the free that made slaves to build [it].
I blame the liberal gun laws. Because everyone potentially could be armed police officers constantly feel life threatened.
That’s no excuse.
Soldiers being sent into literal combat against enemy troops have rules of engagement that don’t allow them to fire unless fired upon. Why do police dealing with civilians have less-strict rules of engagement?
Not to mention other countries also having crime, and criminals with guns. They don’t use their weapons against people who are not a danger to anyone.
The mentality in America is difficult to understand from the outside. It’s very evil.
It’s difficult from the inside too.
The problem is people here are used to it being “the way things are” so they don’t go through the mental exercise of trying to understand it. It’s seen as perfectly normal, so it’s never questioned.
In the US the sky is blue, water is wet, and police are assumed to have been justified any time they kill someone.
Death penalty for thieving? Damn, America went full Stalin
One of my great grandfathers was a gulag survivor.
Up until 2010, he used to hold presentations on why the communist regime of Hungary was bad. His biggest issue was the secret police and arrest quotas, both of which caused him being tortured until he confessed crimes he didn’t commit during 1956.
After Fidesz won, he was no longer let to speak up, because they wanted women sobbing about “having to wear ugly eastern clothes instead of beautiful western brands”, not to mention that they didn’t really had issues with secret polices or arrest quotas. If I recall, they even banned the word “arrest quota”, as Fidesz is a proxy of the American Republican Party.
If it was a white baby it’d be a different story,
But, if it was a white shoplifter, it wouldn’t have resulted in gunfire in the first place
I don’t know about the white baby. ICE killed white people in broad daylight before and people didn’t care, the ice thugs weren’t charged and everyone just carried on with their day.
There was well more uproar over those two white people than there was over all the POC ice killed before and after them. There was well more uproar than there will be for this baby.
We’re not anywhere near “killing a white baby as the mother holds it aloft” levels in America.
At first I thought the article said the shoplifting suspect was white, but it turns out the officer under investigation is white.
Thank GOD the Child was ONE YEARS OLD Instead of a Fetus! THAT would have been a Tragedy!
-LITERALLY Pro Life Republicans!
You know what I mean? 🤦♂️ So stupid.
Watch conservative commentators say “but we don’t have the full story”
They really want this execution to be justified. Look at his clothing, clear gang member
The story is only complete after the cop gets put against the wall.
