So the link connects to a Miss. Dept of Public Safety bulletin which gives a brief overview of the event, and that an investigation is underway.

In the bulletin in infers the vehicle may have been used as a weapon by driving at the police. Which answers why they would have fired at the car if this is accurate.

Until actual details are released, there seems to be a quick jump to assign motives to the office based solely on the race of the suspects. I'll wait for actual facts.

I swear to god you read looking for the one clip to latch on the rail against.

The question was raised above "why fire at the fleeing car?", and a POSSIBLE answer was in the briefing AND I added IF ACCURATE.

You already have this entire incident in your head, how it happened, who was wrong, and why. When in reality you have NO facts to go on. You also then extrapolate out my supposed position on this incident and ALL police related incidents based on me posting a simple fact answering a question above.

You live in a miserable world of your own imagination, have fun there.

"You're justifying the cops shooting an infant."

where did I justify anything?

and yes, I'll wait for more of the story beyond the briefing before deciding if the shooting were justified. The shooting at the vehicle and not the infant to clarify, that is a horrible result of all this. It will be a HIGH bar for me think the cops were justified here. But at the moment there are no facts other than the surface level version of the incident. Unless more have come out, and I haven't seen them yet.

You're chomping at the bit for me to defend the cops on your assumption they came in itching to shoot. I won't defend that. We don't know yet if that was what happened though. The whole story will come out though, and I'll react fully then.

You're misunderstanding my intent.

The question above asked why would they fire at a fleeing car. If the car were being used as a weapon against them it would answer why, the question if that is a reasonable response would still be open.

Every inference beyond that is outside my intent. I'm not saying firing was right or wrong, I'm certainly not justifying the death of an infant with it. Merely answering the why would they fire. If it read that they emptied their clips into the car as it pulled away, I wouldn't have posted it at all as it wouldn't answer anything about why, and on the surface without further information would certainly not be justifiable.

Since you all seem to have more information beyond the initial media bulletin; where are you seeing this?

Found a few news articles with a bit more information, only one mentions that the mother didn't shoplift. She however was not the driver. If I extrapolate out with the best of intentions given, it sounds like she was possibly unknowingly with someone who caused the situation and took them along on their attempt to leave. If this is true, it's even more tragic. The body cam will be telling.

Based on a lot of reactions here though, you have what you need. A minority involved in an incident so you immediately jump to the police are wrong.

I have never said it was right. But until facts, actual facts, are known and not heresay and Ben Crump based... You don't know how it happened.

If it turns out the police were actually attempted to be run down, and they didn't know a kid was in the car then it is a horrible tragedy, but I won't blame the police.

If it turn out they knew there was kid, and weren't actually in danger, fry them.

If it turns out they knew there was a kid, but were actually in danger and felt the community are large was in danger... Then damn I wouldn't want to be in that position, and a cops job sucks... I'm not sure what I would say in that situation and the very very nitty gritty specifics will decide my opinion.

But no, I'm not going to damn the officers without the whole story, even if there are heart wrenching aspects of it on the surface.

And where the F did I race bait? This whole thread is race baiting, I haven't mentioned it once outside of quoting a poster or an article on it.

This whole thread is race baiting in the opposite direction and that's where this whole site is, Black person involve? Cops are wrong!! You're so race obsessed you lose all reason.