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bravenak

(34,648 posts)
10. It has always been like this.
Thu Dec 11, 2014, 06:05 PM
Dec 2014

I watched the cops shoot a woman with a screwdriver on La Brea, right by the Baldwin Hills motor in, where Popeye's is now. They said she lunged at the officer. She did not. They never even asked for a statement. The woman was known round the way. She was mentally ill. I believe they were harassing her about her shopping cart, the homeless use them to hold their lives. She refused to put the screwdriver down. They shot her. That was at least ten years ago, but I never forgot. She was nothing to them.

Of course they do. Iggo Dec 2014 #1
So, immediate compliance or death. bravenak Dec 2014 #2
They should say what they really mean bravenak. sheshe2 Dec 2014 #5
Really, though. bravenak Dec 2014 #6
Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2014 #14
+1 nt steve2470 Dec 2014 #16
Shot for not complying? gollygee Dec 2014 #3
We don't get to know that 99th_Monkey Dec 2014 #8
It has always been like this. bravenak Dec 2014 #10
It's so horrifying gollygee Dec 2014 #11
They couldn't disarm her?? brer cat Dec 2014 #15
They didn't try to. bravenak Dec 2014 #17
Gawd Damn them. sheshe2 Dec 2014 #4
It's boiling over gwheezie Dec 2014 #7
kick and rec! nt steve2470 Dec 2014 #9
Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2014 #12
local news here, my backyard steve2470 Dec 2014 #13
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