2mo ago

Police shoot woman dead, critically injure man in response to domestic incident

www.stuff.co.nz

Stuff

Congratulations NZP you and your guns successfully escalated this situation to as bad as it could possibly get.

Comments

deadbeef79000 @lemmy.nz 2mo ago
Amazing. There are nine comments. I see none.
Which means I've already blocked those commentors...
- AWOL_muppet @lemmy.nz 2mo ago
  Yep. There's one healthy debate but it's started by a particular individual who has a very derisive and inflammatory approach to things...
  Some good points, you could browse it anonymously of you normally use an app?
  
  deadbeef79000 @lemmy.nz 2mo ago
  Urgh. I just did that.
  
  Ilovethebomb @lemmy.nz 2mo ago
  And you don't think laying the blame for this with the police is divisive and inflammatory?
- BalpeenHammer @lemmy.nz 2mo ago
  It's really important to stay in your safe little bubble and not be exposed to ideas you disagree with.
- Ilovethebomb @lemmy.nz 2mo ago
  This goober thinks blocking anyone who disagrees with him is winning.
some_guy @lemmy.sdf.org 2mo ago
Local man Nathan Light said the couple were his “best mates” and were turning their lives around, telling Stuff that the man who was shot had dedicated himself to God and was due to be baptised in days.
Oh, damn. Dude's going to hell now. And he was just days away from ~~retirement~~ baptism.
Haha, just kidding. There's no man in the sky and there's nothing after we die. Instead of being frightened by that idea and letting con-artists weaponize your fear to lull you into a false sense of security (and likely taking your money), rejoice in the fact that you have a life to live to the fullest you're able and there's nothing stopping you from living the way you want to live. This goes especially for closeted, self-loathing homosexuals / trans people / anyone told by religious authorities that they don't matter or are broken.
I'm tellin' ya, it makes life a lot better.
- deadbeef79000 @lemmy.nz 2mo ago
  I bet it was with Destiny Church... 'cause thats not a toxic cesspit of hate.
Ilovethebomb @lemmy.nz 2mo ago
Yeah, the police were the ones who escalated this, not the nutters with knives.
You poor thing.
- Dave @lemmy.nz 2mo ago
  I think this is closely related to the report the other day saying police don't handle these cases well.
  Police were called because the man was threatening to kill the woman and himself. The police came, their entire job is to deescalate the situation. Instead they shot both of them.
  Arguably these people would have been better off if the police hadn't come.
  Normally I would be on the side of the media only talking about the things that go poorly and that they can't all go well, but given the report from the other day from the coroner saying how badly police are handling these cases, I don't think they get an out on this one.
  It was a knife. Why didn't they use a taser? The woman was shot and killed after she picked up the knife to threaten the police because they just shot her partner.
  I'm happy to wait for a wider report to pass judgement but I can't see any way such a report would reflect kindly on police.
  
  Ilovethebomb @lemmy.nz 2mo ago
  Given the failure rate of a tazer, there's no way in hell I'd use one on someone in that state wielding a knife, and I don't think that's a reasonable expectation of police either.

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