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Cops kill Costco pizza lady....

What a misleading thread title. It should have been "Cops kill Costo pizza lady weilding a knife and moving towards them"

Why no comment? Why the misleading title?
 
Pacifier might have helped even more. Friendly rule: do not have a weapon in your hand if you are running at police. Better rule: don't run at police.
 
Was this woman having a psychotic episode? It seems that she was functioning quite normally hours before, but that her behavior grew erratic and alarming quite suddenly. Based on what I've read (admittedly not very much), stress can bring on a psychotic episode. This woman was in the midst of a custody dispute with her ex husband. I also know that things like brain tumors and strokes can produce sudden onsets of psychotic behavior. I wonder if we'll ever find out what happened there.
 
lionking said:
What a misleading thread title. It should have been "Cops kill Costo pizza lady weilding a knife and moving towards them"

Why no comment? Why the misleading title?
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Nothing misleading. Cops did in fact shoot and kill a Costco sub-contractor who was distributing pizza samples. What is in dispute and the subject of investigation is why the woman behaved as she did and whether the cops needed to kill her. According to press reports, this Filipino-American woman was nearing the end of a normal work shift and suddenly began speaking and behaving strangely, including waving a knife around. Her supervisor called the cops and she went to an employee lounge. Within seconds after they arrived, one cop shot her five times after another tried to use a taser and it either malfunctioned or he deployed it incorrectly. She was the mother of two little girls and the ex-wife of a U.S. serviceman. Her sister had spoken to her by phone an hour before her death and detected no problems. If she had a stroke, a diabetic episode or some other medical emergency, she would not have been thinking rationally or capable of responding to police commands. She apparently never actually attempted to hurt anyone, even before the cops got there. The police themselves say she "moved toward" them holding a knife (she had been cutting pizza, remember), not rushed, not attacked. The key question is whether two trained police officers equipped with pepper spray and metal batons should have been able to disarm one sick woman who probably weighed about 90 pounds, or whether they should have backed off, cleared the area and let her rant until backup arrived. There have been too many reports of cops resorting to deadly force when they maybe didn't have to.
 
Ryokan said:
Misleading? Didn't they kill her?
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Misleading because it pretends the notable thing was "Costco pizza lady". Admit it: you would have entered this thread with a different and much more appropriate set of preconceptions, if the title had been, "Cops kill lady after she threatens people with a knife".

The actual title is blatant trolling. Why are you defending it?
 
Actually, from the title, I assumed it was something like this.
 
theprestige said:
Misleading because it pretends the notable thing was "Costco pizza lady". Admit it: you would have entered this thread with a different and much more appropriate set of preconceptions, if the title had been, "Cops kill lady after she threatens people with a knife".

The actual title is blatant trolling. Why are you defending it?
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So you think the implication of the title is that they shot her because they didn't like her pizza? Really? The cops opened fire on a woman working in a crowded Costco after she displayed symptoms of a medical or psychiatric emergency. One of the cops actually wounded the other one. The woman did not injure anyone, and whether she actually "threatened" anyone is still a subject of dispute. The cops claim to be reviewing security video, but nothing has been publicly released. (Gee, I wonder why?) It is reasonable to ask whether she needed or deserved to die.
 
Bob001 said:
So you think the implication of the title is that they shot her because they didn't like her pizza? Really? The cops opened fire on a woman working in a crowded Costco after she displayed symptoms of a medical or psychiatric emergency. One of the cops actually wounded the other one. The woman did not injure anyone, and whether she actually "threatened" anyone is still a subject of dispute. The cops claim to be reviewing security video, but nothing has been publicly released. (Gee, I wonder why?) It is reasonable to ask whether she needed or deserved to die.
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If the security video "disappear" or "malfunctionned" like sometimes the video of the car of the cop do (cough), then you have a point. Until then it is a bit of conspiracy theory.

I'll hold off any comment until we know better, if the cop bungled it by firing too quick, or if they had no other choice.
 
Bob001 said:
So you think the implication of the title is that they shot her because they didn't like her pizza? Really? The cops opened fire on a woman working in a crowded Costco after she displayed symptoms of a medical or psychiatric emergency. One of the cops actually wounded the other one. The woman did not injure anyone, and whether she actually "threatened" anyone is still a subject of dispute. The cops claim to be reviewing security video, but nothing has been publicly released. (Gee, I wonder why?) It is reasonable to ask whether she needed or deserved to die.
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Evidence of this please. I can understand that you would like this to be the case.

Police have the right to defend themselves, and they can do this before they are injured by a possible assailant.

And I think the OP is misleading. Dishonestly so.
 
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