Police shoot and kill pregnant black mother of four who called them for help regarding a break in...

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She had been arrested and charged with obstruction of a public officer and harassment of a law enforcement officer on June 5. That police report described Lyles as having "armed herself with a pair of extra long metal shears" and that she had been "threatening the officers." She was released conditionally June 14.

The encounter between the officers and Lyles started calmly as heard in an audio recording. But it suddenly escalated with the officers saying "get back" repeatedly. Shots were heard in the audio.

So..she harasses police with metal shears...then at the time of the shooting officers are heard saying "get back" which means she was advancing...

...we still don't get the full details of the case but time to assume and be outraged.

I agree..it has to stop. And by "it" I mean unfounded outrage by the public. It's embarrassing to not use mental faculties and be driven by passion.

Sorry but in my country, that is NOT a valid reason to kill a woman and her baby.


What the hell is wrong with you americans that you even find this ok ?

Why is there not a country riot ?

Are you really excusing all these killings ?

I'm not American.

You don't know what happened, neither do I. All we know is officers tell her to back away repeatedly. We don't know how she was advancing and this is someone who advanced with metal shears before so ...what if she had a gun? But we don't know.

Not a country riot because despite proof to the contrary...majority of people in the world are still sane and have common sense.

No? Don't know what killings you are on about. Also not up for me to excuse since there are avenues for that, aka investigations into it.

I totally agree with you and need the facts before I make assumptions. If police are shooting without a good reason then yes, outrage is warranted - but give me the real story here first. This is all just "media hype" to me and should be banned completely. This type of thing alone is what is causing disparity in our country.

People love having their emotions riled up. No thought of long term picture on it as long as they get to feel the adrenaline.

It has nothing to do with being emotional or outraged for the sake of being emotional or outraged.

It's a matter of distributive justice.

Or you can think of it has a matter of Kantian ethics.

Disenfranchised populations ( african american men , women , latino/a , poor whites , homeless people of all colors ) are inequitably punished and killed more than middle class to upper class white men and women

in the US.


And it's not an issue of speculation...there are so many of now recorded counts of unarmed people being killed and moreover fabrications/cover ups by police department members to dismiss any wrongdoing on their end.

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