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Woman critically injured after being shot by Ottawa police officer
(ottawa.ctvnews.ca)
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Doesn't sound like she presented a threat to anyone. I don't think stopping a suspect from running away is a reasonable excuse to shoot them.
Exactly. Unless they pose an immediate risk to others, let 'em run if you don't have any nonlethal options for stopping them. Police firearms should be a last resort for heading off physical danger.
It's a residential neighbourhood with a rec centre and daycares nearby. A stray bullet could have made this an even worse story.
Fucking passive voice as per usual - "the woman was struck", not "the pig shot her in the back."
She tripped and landed on that bullet.
This deserves criminal charges imo
Another article mentioned that there was yelling from the police saying "drop the gun" so she may have actually been carrying a weapon.
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/westboro-residents-recall-frantic-scene-after-woman-shot-by-ottawa-police-officer-1.6819888
If she did have a gun, then yes, it was reasonable for the officer to shoot her.
If the police were just yelling that to improve the optics, or because they weren't putting enough effort into identifying a non-gun object that she was carrying, well . . .
This needed to be in the main article.
Yeah they should have shared the details, but since they didn't it's a bad look.
Hypothetical better story: 'at some point during the chase, she turned towards the officer, rushing him with a knife in hand. At that point the officer discharged their weapon'.
It's all assumptions, but one can gamble that if they had such info, they would have shared it.