Besides into the police she was threatening with a deadly weapon, of course.
Has this been mentioned, yet?
‘Hogtied’ Memphis man dies after being detained by police in Mississippi.
The guy might have been on LSD, but what’s interesting is that the police told the guy with the cell phone video to stop recording.
Can’t have that.
How could she hit the police? They were protected by the police cars and the utility pole meant she couldn’t back up.
For Smapti, the actual plausibility of a threat isn’t important. He basically has a binary system based upon whether there’s any possibility, no matter how unlikely, that a person could in some way be a risk to an officer.
Which basically means Smapti thinks that a policeman is always going to be justified.
She could have called Les Schwab to put new tires on her car, then called a tow truck to get the police cars out of her way. Thankfully they filled her face full of holes before she had a chance to pick up the phone.
It’s obvious that you reject the idea of anyone having an opinion that is different from your privately held belief that you speak for everyone/us/we/assholes-like-yourself. I’m entitled to my opinion just as much as you’re entitled to my opinion. 
Okay Gary, my hand is raised.
Yo! Mr. Kotter!
I’ll be over here with the “Smapti and doorhinge aren’t in the ‘reasonable people’ category, and their posts are my cite” group.
Crowded over here… Too much overlap from other threads?
And yet, she was continuing to try to do so. She was in physical control of a deadly weapon and attempting to use it, and refusing police orders to stop. Approaching the vehicle would only have put the cops in even greater danger. Sitting and waiting for her to either successfully ram them or give up on her own was not practical or safe. The police acted appropriately and the grand jury supported that decision.
It appears we’ve reached the point where the anti-cop crowd is so desperate for something, anything to justify their hatred of law enforcement, that we’ve redefined “controversial encounters” as “any time a cop shoots someone, even if we have to go back five years to a case which has already been resolved”.
She was on her rims in a ditch, hemmed in by police cars and a utility pole. She did not pose any danger. The police were just trigger-happy. The grand jury fucked up big time and one of the jurors regrets his role in this travesty.
Yes, this is a controversial encounter because someone was shot for no reason.
She was shot because she resisted arrest and had physical control of a deadly weapon. Moral of the story; don’t resist arrest.
A car that cannot be moved is not a deadly weapon. Moral of the story: don’t fucking shoot for no reason.
A passing thread lurker/popcorn eater raises a hand.
Did you even watch the video? The car was moving at the time the shots were fired, and had already rammed a police vehicle twice.
I don’t suppose you would’ve - doing so might expose you to information that it would harm the Cause if you were obligated to acknowledge its existence.
Seriously? An old lady on a walker could have evaded that car. A moving vehicle at a snail pace is not a threat to anyone. The cop was a murderous dick to fire.
Well, at least it’s nice to see you admit that you were wrong about “a car that cannot be moved”.
How many more times do you believe the driver should have been allowed to ram the police cruisers before she could be considered dangerous?
How many warnings did he give her? How many times did he tell her to stop? How many opportunities did he give her to not get herself shot that she refused in favor of continuing to attempt to ram the cop cars?
Until they reach in through the window and take her car keys away from her, you imbecilic dipshit?
Reach into the closed window of a moving vehicle being operated by someone behaving erratically, who for all the officer knows may or may not be armed and ready to shoot anyone who reaches in their window.
It’s a wonder that police academies nationwide aren’t beating down your door to hire you to train new recruits.
Here’s how it could be done.
Walk up to slowly moving car.
Break driver window
Put car in park
Remove key
Arrest driver