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This is an absurd misrepresentation of what happened to Ms. Lyles.

• throwawaysea 5y ago
  Can you help me understand why you hold this perspective? Per various news sources the previous incident involving Lyles was very similar, where she threatened police officers with scissors, but they were able to convince her to drop them and arrest her without anyone being harmed (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/seattle-police-shooting-charleena-lyles_n_59479a12e4b0f15cd5bc7ff1 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/seattle-police-shooting-charl...). There are also audio recordings from the officers’ response in the later fatal encounter that corroborates their version of the story, including the fact that they gave her warnings to back away 11 times before shooting (https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/charleena-lyles-seattle-police-shooting-case-what-we-know/536467321/ https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/charleena-lyles-seattle-pol...). Per these links she also had a long history of crimes going further back (assault, robbery, theft, etc). To me it is unconscionable that someone with her history of crime and mental issues is permitted to live without supervision, let alone keep her children, and it is further unacceptable that she was let off a serious incident (threatening to kill a police officer) with no consequence or accountability by a “mental health court”. This looks to me more like a failure of soft-on-crime restorative justice policies rather than a failure of policing.