Baltimore County Police Fatally Shoot 23yo Woman

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

I seriously doubt the cop that shot her waited for her to point the gun at him. Who puts themselves at that kind of risk to serve a bench warrant? It's not like they had Hannibal Lecter cornered in that apartment.

I'm going to go out on a limb and make another prediction. There will be, for whatever reason, no body camera or other video evidence of this shooting. We will be expected to buy the cops story about the gun being pointed at him based on his word as "an officer and a gentleman"

They're already laying the groundwork for that. They've put it out that the county only recently began issuing body cameras and that not all officers have one yet.

Authorities said they did not yet know whether any of the officers involved in the shooting were wearing body cameras. The Police Department began phasing in its body camera program last month, but only some officers have received the devices.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...801-story.html

[EDIT]

As for whether police secured their own footage of the standoff, Johnson said no officer involved in the direct conflict was wearing a body camera. Asked later if police contemplated bringing body cameras to the scene during the hours-long standoff, Armacost said she would have to check and get back to reporters.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/02/us/bal...led/index.html

I have a theory. The first shot fired by the police was the one which struck the child and it was seeing her little boy shot that made Gaines return fire.