I just watched the bodycam of Sonya Massey's murder, and on top of how gallingly wrong her death was--and how many people live in fear of the police in the US & Canada for this reason--my heart just breaks for how often SOP in these cases seems to involve utter indifference to being *with* someone once they're wounded and down.
I'd like to think that if I ever accidentally caused a mortal wound, I'd at least have the integrity to be present with the victim in their last moments.
FFS.
@MLClark I keep going back and forth on watching it
The shooting itself happens quickly, and the version I watched blurred the victim - but it's the attitude of the officer and everything he says and does after that to me was more upsetting. I went back to watch the escalation, and that too was frustrating, because it was *so utterly avoidable*.
Everything around the split-second shooting speaks to how ill-prepared these people were for anything resembling proper de-escalation, & also how normalized passive response to officer error is.