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.
