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In reply to the discussion: Family Pleads For Answers Why Police Gunned Down Daughter In SE OKC [View all]jollyreaper2112
(1,941 posts)I love how people assume I'm a badge sniffer here. Not the case. My default view towards cops hovers between contempt and disgust. I do think we are too militarized as a society, blindly respect authority and accept a ridiculous level of judicial violence.
A) I know cops lie. So there's always the chance this isn't as it's portrayed.
B) don't be a criminal. Looks like he was.
C) don't associate with criminals. She could have just as easily been killed by a criminal associate rather than the cops.
D) if you try to kill a cop, they're going to kill you right back.
I don't know the whole story here yet. Certainly new information can change my perspective. But it looks like she fell in love with a bad boy and got killed for it. Usually it's not so dramatic. Usually it just amounts to physical and emotional abuse as she tries to explain to friends and family how he beats her because he loves her. She'll either wise up eventually or remain a punching bag. Or she might end up costarring in another American murder-suicide tragedy, people wringing their hands over how she would still be alive if only the crazy man respected the restraining order.