Snelling added that the agency later discovered Thompson had warrants out for her arrest and the autopsy found illicit drugs in her system.
Man, I hate it when the cops bring up this irrelevant bullshit. All they’re trying to do is make the victim look less sympathetic, and make themselves look less bad in comparison. Even if the officers had known about the warrants and drugs, these facts don’t make it okay to gun a woman down.
Remember when a cop broke into Botham Jean’s apartment and shot him in the face while he was sitting on his own couch eating ice cream? Remember when afterward they had a press conference to show off the <1 gram of marijuana they found just in case that made him a bad person who deserved to die.
It’s not irrelevant at all. It’s likely the reason she didn’t identify herself, which in turn led the police to believe she was their robbery suspect. Outstanding warrants and drugs wouldn’t justify gunning her down, but a robber is much more likely to go on and hurt or kill someone.
Or, the constant barrage of videos thanks to people having smartphones where we see cops regularly exploiting their position and maiming and killing random innocent people. Might also be a decent reason why somebody may not want to just get ol buddy buddy with the police.
I mean I for one have seen more cops kill innocent people in videos than I saw people die on rotten.com.
When I have an arrest warrant out against me, I contact the courts and figure out what I need to do to get the judge to withdraw it. Most likely, they just give me a court date. They might ask me to go to the courthouse and sign for service of a summons.
I do this, because I know that if I don’t do it on my own volition, I’m going to have cops and/or bounty hunters explaining the steps they had to take to arrest me, and that judge is then going to consider their testimony during my bail hearing. The more I run, evade, hide, or fight, the less likely I’ll be released on my own recognizance, and the higher my bail.
That’s the expectation in our society. We avail ourselves of the justice system. We demand that our case proceed out of the police station and into the courts as quickly as possible.
It’s rather dumb to try to run from the police, but arrest warrants aren’t issued by the police. You’ve got to be tragically stupid to try to run from a judge.
It’s only felony warrants that bounty hunters and cops really pursue. You aren’t being hunted for not showing up to court for a misdemeanor. Also, I have personally known people that have waited out their warrants. They seem to disappear in most states after about 7-10 years.
Whether police are actively searching for me or not is completely irrelevant. They might show up at my home at any time. They might show up at my workplace. Any contact with the police triggers almost certainly triggers arrest: Being pulled over at a traffic stop. Being involved in a vehicle collision. Being attacked by a criminal. Witnessing a crime. Kids get lost, can’t find their way home, and police return them. Neighbor complains about noise.
Or, as in this case, being mistaken for a suspect.
No, I’m not going to spend 7-10 years of my life looking over my shoulder to avoid a misdemeanor warrant that carries nothing more than a small fine or community service. No reasonable person would. That’s just stupid.
She would have been arrested after this stop, not for the crime they initially and reasonably suspected, but on the warrant. She knew that, even if they didn’t. She decided to mash on the accelerator of a 3000lb vehicle in the presence of officers on foot. She decided that endangering the lives and bodies of police officers was a reasonable and acceptable course of action. She decided that aggravated vehicular assault of police was preferable to paying a fine and performing some community service.
The expected standard of behavior is that she contact the court and clear up the warrant on her terms. She chose instead to ram a police cruiser and multiple officers with her car.
She was no Breonna Taylor. She was no Philando Castile. She had full control over the situation, and chose felonious acts of violence in an attempt to avoid the courts.
I can empathize with her position, but I have no sympathy.
I’d be shocked if they actually had the capacity to fire the nuclear weapons Russia gave them.
That was the whole situation in Ukraine in 1994, Ukraine had them as part of the Soviet Union, they gave them to Russia in return for a promise from Russia to not use military force against them (whoops). Seems like a bad deal for Ukraine until you realize that they weren’t able to fire those weapons, the control was still in Moscow so it wasn’t like they could be used for national defense.
I’m inclined to agree with you but there’s a remote chance the puppet state of Belarus has the capability to launch. If they do, Russia can try to go for a facade of, if not innocence (that ship has sailed), less-than-complete guilt. Can’t imagine that anyone would buy it though.
Yeah, I’ve thought the same with North Korea and their nukes. China and Russia might just see them as an entity that might nuke their enemies to hurt them but without the destruction capability that might trigger a MAD style “launch everything in response!” while they themselves can keep the MAD facade up (and I’m skeptical about MAD because I don’t think many with the power to launch will make the decision that it’s time to end civilization as we know it, though a nuclear exchange could likely escalate to that eventually even if it didn’t immediately).
But I also don’t think such a facade would hold up with Belarus. Maybe North Korea could be argued to be independent enough from China and Russia that a launch from them shouldn’t automatically be considered something that Xi and Putin both signed off on. But Lukashenko is only in power because Russia keeps him there and even if he can order a launch, if Putin didn’t support one, he’d probably kill him himself if he can get to him quicker than NATO can. That might be the only reason NATO wouldn’t go all out instantly, just to see how Russia reacts to decide if it’s a “end Belarus and hope it doesn’t kick off ww3” or a “welp, ww3 just started” scenario.
I can say she was convicted of two counts of both R.C. 2903.02(A) & (B)—basically “normal” murder and felony murder. Clearly they thought she did it on purpose and because she was committing another felony. I can’t say why those don’t merge together under Ohio law or if they are supposed to. Ohio is a fairly statutory state, so maybe they overwrite that common law rule?
Okay, felony murder makes sense as the other charges would be felonies. I don’t care much for felony murder laws because I feel like they deincentivize careful action in law enforcement, but I definitely understand where if that law is in place she caught murder for the actual murder then felony murder subsequent to the assaults.
Still feels weird that two dead people produced 6 homicide convictions though. Like, you killed them, that’s 2 crimes. You killed them with a car, that’s two more crimes. In the process of killing them with a car, which is a felony, you killed them. That’s two more crimes.
Unlike you with your ability to perfectly sense sarcasm every single time.
Edit: The commenter called me an idiot. I'm disappointed that a harmless comment like that got deleted. They're entitled to think so and also to let me know how they feel when I make the conscious decision to make a controversial statement on a public forum.
Yeah, unfortunately that wasn't obvious, since I've seen literally exactly these words with intent behind them in other comments. As rustyfish pointed out, Poe's Law is the law of the land; text doesn't come with tone.
Yeah... exactly... except that I've never seen an embryo in neonatal care. Wonder if there's a reason for that, Mr. "let's make the horrific murder of born babies in the UK about fucking bipartisan US-Bullshit-Politics"
Gosh, I hate those people.
Edit: If you lot in New Religioustan as a society want to let women die because AbOrTiOnS aRe BaD.... that's your perogative. Your fucked up perogative, but your perogative. But... like... leave the rest of us alone, perhaps? You know... the part of the world where one upping "the other side" isn't the whole deal in politics and the politicians with a hint of a soul get a say sometimes... We like our human rights and our actual freedom intact, thank you very much.
Oh, first of all: I'm not only talking about the UK, but in this setting that reduction is understandable
Secondly: No, of course no place in the world is immune to this shit. None. But right now, many places in the world are not struggling with this shit at the same level and hopefully never will, so no need to infect each and every talk on the internet with US-Politics and the dire and gloomy things that go on over there.
So you'd be ok with my statement if you didn't have family in Chester? Weird statement but ok. Also better watch your language, someone else's comment got deleted for calling me an idiot.
Have a nice weekend.
We heard about that first when it happened, and nothing at all was done when it was just some old lady hurt. (edit: Even with bodycam) THEN the laughing video came out a few days later and THEN the public outcry ramped up enough they had no choice. Only then was there any action against those officers.
I am very appreciative of the fact that we had a misunderstanding but kept it civil, unlike on The Site That Shall Not Be Named, where it would have brought out the worst. Man, that place was awful. I love the fediverse!
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