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.

@Graci

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.

@MLClark FJC. He was insulted. That's what did it. FFS

@Graci @MLClark

It's wild how many police consider insulting them to be a crime punishable by violence.

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