A few thoughts on the Minnisucka shooting

As is typical, there is a large amount of bovine exhaust spreading out from the usual suspects.  Remember, no blood puddle is too large or small to be taken advantage of.

Regarding the dead woman, the crush of info is, if not bewildering, if not highly creative,  certainly distracting from the real issues.

Ooooo she was a mom of three!   Yup, sure was.  She squeezed out three puppies, two of whom were removed from her care... with cause.   Oooo she wrote poetry!  That made me chuckle.  *I* write poetry, and I know for a fact I'm a rotten bastard.    Whatever, that's all brought up just to obfuscate the issue.

You know why none of that matters?  Because, aside from putting her in that spot at that time, none of it made her dead.    She didn't shoot herself in the head.  A police officer did.  All that really matters is what he saw, and what he was trained to do, and what he did.  We can argue all day long about the woman's saint or sinner candidacy, but that's window dressing on a haunted house. Just a distraction from the monster in front of us.  We have video from all sides of the incident.  We know what she did.  We know what he did.  The real issue is all on him.

What did that officer know?  Lets face it, he never met her.  She entered his life seconds before he put a bullet into her face.   What did he see, hear, feel?  He had zero notion of her history, the state of her womb, or her level of sanity.  I doubt he saw her wife get out and begin taking video of what she did.  I'm certain he had no notion of how far she had driven to do exactly what she was doing.   I'm certain he had no clue about her history.

What did he know?  In a period of seconds....

He knew she drove her SUV into the middle of the uniformed police operation he was assigned to.

He knew she put her vehicle sideways among his fellow officers, and actively kept driving forward and backwards (We can all see her reverse lights, brake lights, and NON-brake lights).

He knew his fellow officers yelled at her to get out of the vehicle, that she was under arrest. He must have heard that from only feet away.  It's perfectly clear on a video taken from a distance.

He knew she did not follow instructions, and accelerated forward through the group of officers.

He knew she hit him, because the front bumper of her 5000 pound SUV was under his hip and his feet were coming off the ground.  That's not what he said.  That's what the video clearly showed.

He knew he had been hit by a protester's vehicle less than 30 days before, and dragged for 50 feet. He knew that got him 32 stitches and a hospital event.

WE know he shot her from that position because it's on clear video, and the alignment of the bullet hole in the windshield and her head leaves only one place for that shot to have been fired from. The left center of the front bumper, on a vehicle we can see is accelerating, that was literally in the process of running him over.

Am I defending the officer?  Am I saying I think it was a good shoot?  Yes, I am.  

Look, it's sad she is dead.  It's also sad he was put in that position by her. Yet, frankly, I would have done exactly what he did.  Nobody can say what anyone else would have done.  We can see what he did, and I know what I would do.  I can't speak for anyone else.

Once she drove into the operation, there were only three possible outcomes.  1) She would be allowed to leave immediately. 2)  She would be arrested.  3) She would be subjected to force.  We can be fairly sure she would known this.  Retarded poodles would understand this.

Once she was commanded by police to get out of her vehicle, she then tried to drive through the officers.  We have no way of knowing she actually thought out what she was doing.  Talk to her wife I guess.  1) She was going to be arrested, either there or later. 2) She was going to be shot at and a) missed, and then arrested. b) hit, survive and be arrested, or c) shot dead on the spot. She rolled the dice for 2c, and that is what she got.

Now, if someone wants to discuss her Death-Decision-Spiral that led to her getting shot, sure we can do that.  Want to discuss federal law enforcement, politics, or those sick bastard politicians who created this situation?  Hell yeah, let's get to discussing.  Can we talk about the seconds surrounding her becoming unhealthily ventilated?  Sure, but nobody can argue what happened in those seconds.  We can all see it for ourselves, and no fancy blood dancing will change the reality.

UPDATE.  The body cam footage dropped.  The officer had roughly 1/4 to 1/2 a second to react.  She was looking right into his face as she accelerated.  The sound of the shot is covered by the thunk of her ramming him with the SUV.

That is what it is at this point, but player #2 has entered the crime scene.  The wife was kinetic and invasive on the scene, taking video and taunting the officers.  Not standing back, but circling the vehicle in the officers personal space.

Thought.  If this crime was planned in advance for the publicity, then I'd expect her to be charged as accessory to murder of her own wife.  Then again, it's Minnisucka, so reality has been discontinued for the time being.