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SwayM posted...

I can just see the alternate reality headline right now:

"Cop steps out of the way and lets a woman run over a child in liquor store robbery."

Gee I wonder how y'all well adjusted internet warriors would react to that?

"f***ing useless pigs, yadda yadda yadda."

The internets anti cop agenda has gone so far that y'all go out of your f***ing way to defend criminals in the worst way.

The best case scenario would be her getting out of the car because the police approach in a non authoritarian manner that didn't make her feel threatened. She could apologised and the police compassionately ask her if she's ok. Get her help and support her, so her desire to shoplift lessens. Encourage her to be a good parent, and visit the kid yearly to show them that cops can be good guys. Kid graduates with honours and his mother starts helping other women who turn to crime.

I suppose that's the best scenario. Instead, all of that potential is lost and we have a dead unborn child and mother. The police could have done more to help reach that positive outcome, therefore they are the bad guys because they didn't. No matter what, they killed the mother. It doesn't matter what she did or the situation, they took her life. The ultimate sin. Of course that's sad and no one should be happy for that but...

Could the mother bear any responsibility herself? I don't know but the idea here is that only police are wrong if people end up getting hurt either because of them stopping her or because of them letting her get away.