San Francisco police fatally shoot black woman

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

San Francisco police fatally shoot black woman
By Curtis Skinner

May 19, 2016

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A black woman was fatally shot on Thursday by a San Francisco police officer checking on a stolen vehicle, marking another killing for a department faced with public outrage over fatal police shootings and a federal review.

San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr told reporters that around 9:45 a.m. local time two officers approached the 27-year-old woman as she sat in a car that was identified as stolen. Neither the woman nor the officers have been identified.

The woman tried to drive off, crashing into another vehicle fewer than 100 feet away. She was shot by one of the officers, a sergeant, after refusing to comply with their orders, Suhr said. She was fatally wounded and later died at an area hospital.

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The use of lethal force by U.S. police, especially by white officers against African-Americans and other minorities, has been the focus of nationwide protests.

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1. San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr resigns after killing of woman

San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr resigned Thursday, hours after a city officer killed a woman at the edge of the Bayview neighborhood and after he was asked to step down by Mayor Ed Lee.

At a City Hall news conference, Lee said he hoped to “heal the city” amid outrage over recent police killings of people of color and revelations that a number of officers had exchanged racist and homophobic text messages.

“The progress we have made has been meaningful but it hasn’t been fast enough, not for me and not for Greg, and that’s why I have asked Chief Suhr for his resignation,” Lee said in remarks that lasted five minutes.

Lee named as acting police chief Toney Chaplin, 47, who was a deputy chief. The announcement came after Lee and Suhr met for hours in Lee’s office, with the departing chief exiting a side door without speaking to reporters. Chaplin stood at Lee’s side during the news conference.

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[WhiteTara]

2. Well, that's a step.

Rather small, but good. There has to be consequences.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. Well, that's show biz.

Fire the guy who didn't pull the trigger.

I guess it comes down to who has the stronger union: the cops, or the chief.

But, someone got thrown under the bus, so the situation is fine now.

[Spacedog1973]

13. Firing a guy who will accept a request for resignation

Is a meaningful action within the context of an institutionally criminal justice system and a union that protects corrupt cops. This also isn't a random 'guy who didn't pull the trigger'. Nor is it really important in the grander scheme of things that a low level 'grunt' gets fired. That never changes a thing. When people in positions of power are required to resign because of the political environment brought about by organisations such as BLM, it is a direct acknowledgement by those in power, that things need to change.

The phrase; 'Someone being thrown under the bus', simply doesn't pass the smell test for me and sounds mealy-mouthed. Bosses take responsibility for the actions of their subordinates all the time. This is no different and someone's pointless death certainly is more serious than most reasons bosses are required to resign on behalf of their employees.

[olddad56]

3. arresting the police officer who shot her would also help the healing.

It hurts every time a cop gets away with murder.

[TipTok]

8. I wonder how all of this could have been avoided...

[PersonNumber503602]

9. Disband the police?

[TipTok]

10. That reminds me of anti vaxxer logic...

One in a million bad interactions...

Better scrap the whole idea...

How about something realistic?

[PersonNumber503602]

11. Ban doctors?

*I'm just being jaL;KSDH;asdjalsd.

It's not worth responding to me at this current time.

[Spacedog1973]

14. I think your logic isn't exactly that great

I mean, it would seem more logical if 'one in a million bad interactions ' related to, police stops, profiling, lying under oath, corrupt prosecutors, threatening behaviour by police to minorities, etc, etc. Any Liberal worth anything, would know the rest.

On the other hand, if we categorise this as one of the 'one in a million bad interactions' it still becomes worthy of scrutiny. After all, we ground planes on even rarer and ambiguous data. We do the same with drugs, with cars, with many items which are found to have caused harm; we withdraw them until we understand the reason why they caused harm.

A 'realistic' solution is always to examine the root causes and to address them. This is hardly complicated, nor is this a new concern or one that doesn't have a huge array of possible solutions, some of which have been broadcast by those running for the POTUS. Again, confusion is misplaced on an apparently democratic forum filled with self proclaimed enlightened individuals, who on face value are ignorant to the point of embarrassment.

[TipTok]

17. The difference is that drugs, cars and planes are all physical objects...

... created by man. We know what they will do.

10,000s of police departments with 100,000s of human police having untold number of interactions with other humans (many of whom are unfriendly towards LE) will results on some bad things.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. kick

[Prism]

6. So just to summarize

Not armed, the car is out of commission (the one thing that could have been a threat), and then they shot her?

Yeah.

Even as short as five years ago, it used to be that San Francisco cops were assholes, but Oakland cops were the ones you have to worry about. So nice of them to be playing catch up.

This feels like a straw, though. I believe, finally, Mayor Lee is feeling personally threatened by this. Good. He should.

[Benitos]

7. This has happened way too many times

it has to stop.

[Kang Colby]

12. What would have happened if she wasn't driving around in a stolen car, jeopardizing

human life by driving recklessly (and crashing into other vehicles) in an effort to escape police custody?

Are police shootings ever justified?

[SpookyDem]

15. logic escapes some people

[Dont call me Shirley]

16. Woman killed by SFPO....

Not again.

The death penalty has never been the sentence meted out for being in a stolen car.