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Officer kills woman inside her Texas home after welfare call

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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A black woman was fatally shot by a white Fort Worth, Texas, officer inside her home early Saturday after police were called to the residence for a welfare check, authorities said.

Officer kills woman inside her Texas home after welfare call

I dont even know what to say anymore...
 
Sounds very bad. I wonder if she pointed a gun at the officer. At any rate its very bad.


 
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Very sad event. Hopefully the investigation will find out exactly what happened and make recommendations for changes in police procedures.

I am also mad that the news media felt it was important to identify the race of the LEO and the victim. Seems the msm wants to keep racial tensions high. There is no mention that the LEO was influenced by the victims race. That is there is no evidence provided that the shooting was a "hate crime".
 
This is just maddening. How does one defend themselves from "shoot first, ask questions later"???

I'll tell ya, I'm going to think twice before calling the cops, that's for sure.
 

Clearly an awful tragedy but the entire set of facts are not known yet. The brief report claims there was a gun found. Was it in the slain woman's hand? Did she point it at the officer? Did the officer panic or did he reasonably believe she was a threat? Too many questions need to be answered before this obvious tragedy can be further categorized.

Cops are put in tough positions. When Private citizens use force, it is almost always after they have been attacked. So the cases of private citizens who legitimately use deadly force, but shoot an innocent person are lower than the cases of cops shooting innocents. But the environment is different. Cops are tasked with looking for dangerous people. And its a tough position. If someone you think is a criminal confronts you, the amount of time you have to ascertain whether they are armed or not is under a couple seconds. If you wait too long, you may be shot. If you shoot too quickly, you might well injure or kill an innocent. A guy reaching for his wallet was shot 40+ times in NYC years ago. A young man with traffic tickets was chased by a Cincinnati cop who had been erroneously told that the young miscreant had EIGHTEEN WARRANTS (warrants mean felonies). So when the young man-after being cornered by the cop, reached down to pull up his sagging shorts-the police officer shot him fatally.

Sadly, these sort of tragedies are hard to prevent.
 

I hope it wasn't planted...

 
Happening all too often, police are called to check on someone and in the end we have loss of life.

Just awful.
 
Moot said:
I hope it wasn't planted...
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wouldn't be the first time, nor the last, though the current state of forensics makes that less likely.

I honestly don't know the answer to how to stop such tragedies. Its an issue I studied for years, and I reviewed hundreds of cases of use of force cases. Some are clear cases of police error, malfeasance or even criminal actions. Others are in the damned if they do, damned if they don't scenarios.
 

If the officer is white, I wonder if the media will play up the race card and then blame Trump, because after all he is a racist.
 

That's true.

Perhaps emergency operators could do a better of job of getting and relaying information to the responding officers before they get there. A lot of these tragedies seem to boil down to lack of communication between the person taking the emergency call and the responding officers...imo.
 
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I read in another article that the cops went to her house at 2:30 in the morning. Why would they do a welfare check at such a late hour?
 
SLC said:
Sounds very bad. I wonder if she pointed a gun at the officer. At any rate its very bad.
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Even if she had a gun...she was in her home with a stranger peering in her window who apparently hadnt identified himself as a cop.

Yeah...this one sounds like a cop should be going to jail. Its early yet...but it doesnt look good.
 
PoS said:
I read in another article that the cops went to her house at 2:30 in the morning. Why would they do a welfare check at such a late hour?
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Apparently the neighbor called because the woman that owned the house was in the hospital and the neighbor noticed the door was open.
 
Outlook said:
If the officer is white, I wonder if the media will play up the race card and then blame Trump, because after all he is a racist.
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And he loves the poorly educated, which is a great big full body hug for you. You must feel deeply loved.
 
Even if there was a gun on the floor, isn't this Texas where you can have any number of guns? Or is that just for white folk?
 
DiAnna said:
You find this amusing? I find it repugnant.
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What do you expect from people like him? They love sociopaths that forge weather maps with Sharpies, and terrorize migrant children.
 
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Moot said:
This is just maddening. How does one defend themselves from "shoot first, ask questions later"???

I'll tell ya, I'm going to think twice before calling the cops, that's for sure.
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Yeah, with police culture in this country it's becoming "oops, did we kill an innocent person? Oh well. We were in fear of our lives - something, something.".

Does it make anybody feel good that police culture promotes the idea that officers are allowed to shoot as a first response, then ask questions later?
 
What kind of training is done in the U.S. for police officers?

In Canada an officer would have graduated from a two year Law Enforcement and Security program. They will take courses designed by the Canadian Police College.
Then if they get hired by a police force, they will be sent to a training camp. If they come out of that without any problems, they get the job.
 
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