The woman, Talisa Coombs, told Delaney she’d just gotten into what she alleged was a physical altercation with her granddaughter’s mother, Maria Pike, and called 911. Independence police’s response to that 911 call ended with the shooting death of Pike, 34, and her two month old daughter, Destinii Hope — who were identified Tuesday by authorities from the Police Involved Investigative Team, or PIIT, a team of eastern Jackson County detectives called in to investigate police shootings and use-of-force incidents.

The officer who fired his weapon was “a long-tenured veteran of law enforcement,” Dustman said. That officer and another two who were at the scene are on administrative leave.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article295483354.html

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
        631·
        3 days ago

        I’m confident that Russia has even worse police. The morality police in some countries have killed women for not wearing headscarves.

        Yes, US police culture is fucking awful and being armed makes it worse. They are not even close to unique though.

      • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
        522·
        3 days ago

        Cops aren’t bastards because they randomly kill small children and pets. Cops are bastards because they enforce the social hierarchies and protect the rich from the masses.

        They just also kill small children and pets sometimes. As a treat. And, as with most other forms of treats, Americans indulge more than those in many other places in the world.

      • bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        504·
        3 days ago

        No, ACAB includes all cops, including ones from other countries.

        The US might have particularly bad cops, but cops from other countries are still pretty bad.

        • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          131·
          3 days ago

          “All” is quite definitive. I prefer a shorter slogan:

          PEB

          Policing Enables Bastards

          Seems much harder to get hung up in semantic arguments and it gives activists permission to join their ranks and attempt to disrupt a broken system from the inside. Also shows solidarity with cops who are on leave right now for reporting misconduct or disobeying unethical orders, instead of labeling them as bastards in the interim from now until they’re fired.

          I hope there aren’t cops who think “well, I’m a bastard no matter what, so why bother?” but if there are, I like the narrative shift of “don’t let yourself fall into the bastard trap; report corruption, speak out, be better”.