It's a sad story that a young mother has to be shot by police, but reading the facts of the case, it certainly seems to be a justifiable shooting. It sounds like the cops exhausted their non-lethal options, and with the life of a 4 year old at stake, did what they had to do.Officer kills woman holding child hostage
A 21-year-old woman was fatally shot by police early Sunday after slashing her 4-year-old daughter and two officers with a box cutter, authorities said.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which is investigating the shooting, said Hawthorne officers answered a family disturbance call shortly before 1 a.m. in the 14400 block of Lemoli Avenue, where they found Elaine Coleman in a bedroom and holding her daughter hostage with a box cutter.
The officers fired a Taser gun at Coleman to no effect after she refused to drop her weapon. When they tried to restrain her, she slashed her child and the officers, police said.
One officer fired two shots and Coleman was pronounced dead at the scene.
The officers and child, whose names were not released, each required about 30 stitches at a local hospital. Their injuries were not considered life-threatening.
But it's not that simple in L.A. In Los Angeles there's a collection of community "activists" who show up in front of the cameras every time a black person is shot by police, and of course, the body was still warm when the usual suspects showed up demanding an investigation. I'm beginning to think that a black shooter could walk into a mall, mow down dozens of people with an automatic weapon, and then when the cops take him out, the same activists would show up demanding the cops be prosecuted. It's a knee-jerk reaction and all it does is stir up resentments in the community which every 20 years or so results in a riot.
If these activists really want to do a service for their community, they need to learn to pick their fights, and this is a bad one to pick.
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