Seattle police shot Charleena Lyles seven times, autopsy finds

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Charleena Lyles, a pregnant mother killed by Seattle police in her apartment in front of her children, was shot seven times, including twice in the back, according to an autopsy released on Wednesday.

The medical examiner’s report on Lyles, 30, who was killed after she called 911 to report a burglary, classified the death as a homicide and noted that the bullets cut through her uterus and hit her fetus, estimated to be 14 to 15 weeks old.

Lyles’ death sparked national outrage and reignited debates about law enforcement’s disproportionate killing of African Americans and officers’ treatment of people with mental health challenges.

The two police officers have claimed that Lyles was holding a knife when they killed her on 18 June, but her family has questioned law enforcement’s narrative and justification for using deadly force, noting that she was 100lb, 5ft 3in and not a threatening person.

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Sam Levin in San Francisco
Wednesday 30 August 2017 22.27 BST


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/30/charleena-lyles-seattle-police-shooting

[bonniebgood]

1. This sounds about right. SHE calls the police to kill them. Lying scum. nt

[Angry Dragon]

2. same thing happened in Minneapolis a couple months ago

officer shot her through the police car window across his partner

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Since even before Ferguson, it seems to be a deliberate effort to kill non-whites

It cannot be a co-incidence that police Depts across the country have suddenly taken up murdering all these people independently of each other, the killings are too similar.

[Angry Dragon]

4. she was white ....... Australian ........... called the police to report apparent sexual assault

[heaven05]

6. what?

supposed to make everything equal since say...Ferguson, right?

[Angry Dragon]

7. NO!!

just another gun happy policeman

[icymist]

5. Huh.

[Bayard]

8. I don't suppose she could have been holding the knife

(if there even was one), to protect herself from said burglar?

I wouldn't expect this in Seattle.