Who is Leonna Hale? Outrage Over Missouri Police Shooting of Pregnant Woman

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.newsweek.com/missouri-police-shooting-pregnant-black-woman-sparks-outrage-1711599

An unarmed Black woman told officers she was pregnant just before she was shot multiple times in Kansas City, Missouri, according to a witness.

Leonna Hale, 26, had her hands up in the moments before officers shot her in the parking lot of a Family Dollar store on Friday night, a woman identified only as Shédanja told The Kansas City Star.

Shédanja said Hale was attempting to run away from officers when they shot her five times.

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According to Shédanja, Hale had taken just three steps to run away from the officers when they fired five times. "I remember it because it didn't stop. They shot five times," Shédanja said. Newsweek has reached out to her for further comment.

In a video she captured following the shooting, Hale is seen lying on the ground with blood on her shirt as other officers arrive on the scene and one appears to handcuff her.

[JohnSJ]

1. Outrageous. Last I heard she was in stable condition.

[Turbineguy]

2. That raises a thorny question for republicans.

What about abortion by shooting, is that illegal too?

[alphafemale]

4. They would charge her as causing the abortion

of course

[Lovie777]

6. Times have changed for the worst . .. ..

Ya know the GQP will blame her and red states with their horrible laws and rulings could jail her for putting the fetus in harm's way.

[LiberatedUSA]

5. That has always been the case.

Scott Peterson was charged for both Lacy and his unborn child because she was pregnant. Law doesn’t care whether Roe stands or not, because it views a dead pregnant woman as two murders, or an alive pregnant woman that has a miscarriage due to an attack as one murder.

[obamanut2012]

3. Cops shouldn't be allowed to fire at people running away like this

Unless they are obviously armed and dangerous ie a bank robber running from a bank and firing at people.

[PTWB]

7. They're not.

Look at the murder of Walter Scott, for example.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Walter_Scott

[Dr. Strange]

8. Unarmed? WTF?

She's just been charged with unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful use of a weapon:
https://www.kmbc.com/article/kansas-city-kansas-woman-leonna-m-hale-shot-by-kansas-city-police-friday-now-charged/40170462#

[TheProle]

9. Unless the pic is doctored

Looks like she's got a gun.

[ripcord]

10. Good thing they were wearing body cameras

I wonder if anyone will mention how outrageous it is that a person driving a stolen car pulled a gun on people?

[iemanja]

11. Running away is not a capital offense

Even if the cops' claims were true. What ever happened to foot pursuit?

[TheProle]

12. If you're being pursued for a carjacking

and your move is to run and point a gun, you're taking your chances.

[ripcord]

13. Pulling a gun on cops is illegal

It is amazing that even when presented with video proof you still got it wrong. Are you now going to condemn the gun-toting criminal who pulled a gun on the cops during the commission of a crime?