Texas deputies shoot woman mistaken for intruder, bodycam video shows

So where's the NRA? Armed in her own home and shot by government tyrants exercising her right to protect herself with a firearm.

Who am I kidding...

Same place the NRA was when Philando Castile and Breonna Taylor were shot.
And since this woman is apparently queer, I'm guessing the NRA will have the same level of sympathy.
I always say this kind of thing when I see similar events. If you're going to be killed by the police just for having a gun in your possession, you don't have the right to have a gun. The right always likes to pretend like they care about gun rights and freedom, but if they did then they would want more restraints on cops, not less. It's obviously just lies. They want cops to keep the poor in line while they do whatever the hell they want, and somehow they've been able to convince a bunch of other poor (though mostly white) people to vote for them.
She was safe(r)! (sorry forgot the /s)
The NRA stands for the right of white home owners to kill minorities.

https://youtu.be/eAz9_iApfRI?t=1m50s

I'm just going to leave a time-stamped link to the unedited video because there are a couple apologists in here that are absolutely ridiculous.

The officers identify themselves exactly once at 2:07, a car alarm starts going off at 2:18 and noticeably startles the officer wearing the cam, at 2:23 one of the officers says "someone's coming", and at 2:26 the syllable "Dro-" is interrupted by both officers completely unloading their magazines into the door/window.

It actually doesn't even look like the door was open and maybe the victim was trying to peek out the window?

So how exactly should she have handled this situation to have avoided someone trying to randomly murder her in her own home?

completely unloading their magazines into the door/window.
You're not exaggerating here. It takes about 8 seconds for the one officer to reload the weapon once the mag's been emptied by spasmodic panic-shooting, and while we can deduct time used to talk on the radio, it didn't stop what looked like 40-50 rounds being pumped into the general vicinity of a person.
I have cops in the family, and I get a good idea of the day-to-day grind their soul endures in my country's best-trained and worst-paid police force, and I'll be among hte first to review something critically. There's nothing mitigating about this; it's objectively horrific.
Edit: ho-oleee shit, she survived.
Pouncy, a friend of the woman who lived in the apartment, sustained a total of five gunshot wounds to the leg and torso, according to her attorney, Ben Crump, who reacted to the release of the video on Monday, calling it "evidence of the unnecessary and excessive force."
None of Pouncy’s vital organs were struck by bullets, but the long-term effects of her injuries are yet to be determined, according to Crump. He told ABC News that Pouncy is traumatized by the incident.
I hope she can live and sue the cops so hard it'll change their training, and these two will split between telling their story of idiocy and parking enforcement for the rest of their careers.
- They shoot people for no reason and you hope they get parking duty?
  How about they go to prison for their crime of attempted murder.
- sue the cops so hard it'll change their training
  Won't happen unless taxpayers raise hell en masse, since they foot the bills for lawsuits.
- This is so insane. It actually does look like the police officers completely freaked and just started blasting and then got into a kind of panicked frenzy.
  Basically the only way to be safe from police is to not have windows or have bulletproof glass or some kind demilitarized zone so you can see who is coming without coming "out of cover". Have a video phone to talk to would be visitors.
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Holy shit.
ACAB
WHAT THE FUCK.
They didn't even ask a fucking question, nothing. Just started shooting! What the fuck.
I honestly thought "well if they broke a glass it is an understandable misunderstanding" but nope, it isn't.
Pretty sure there's even an accidental discharge at 2:37 before the rest of the second mag gets dumped, as a cherry on top.
edit: might've been a shot back, not sure.

Holy fuck. I don't usually watch these videos because I am pretty squeamish, but I did for some reason, and you don't actually see the woman get shot.

What you do see is two cops immediately empty their weapons' entire clips the second they think they see a gun.

Cowards. The lot of them.

They didn't imagine the gun. The girlfriend confirms that she picked up her gun and went to the door. If the police are there and banging on the door, you don't pick up a gun and walk to the door in America.
- Weird, I thought there was this thing called the second amendment that gun advocates always say is necessary to defend yourself against tyranny.
  Also, the cops yell, "DROP THE GUN!" and the start shooting. Immediately.
  Maybe don't blame the victim for both exercising her right and for the cops not even giving her time to do what they tell her to do.
- Cause only cops can say they are cops, right?
- The victims only heard banging and not the cops announcement.
  So she gets her gun to defend herself and answer the door.
  Cops see the gun through the window. Don't announce they're police. Scream to drop the gun and immediately empty their clips...
- And if they had plugged a child with a toy gun in this circumstance your argument would be what? Go ahead. Try and say that never happens. I dare you.
  Walking to the front door of her home with a legally owned firearm does not excuse these officers from attempting to murder her.

It's like a joke almost. Like the cops from Cyberpunk. The fuck.
BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG
spends ten seconds reloading
BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG
The number of bangs is impressive!
Sorry, I couldn't hear you over you shooting me. Can you repeat?

Yes, but look at that plant they were shooting at. How could they reasonably be sure there weren't any acorns growing on it?

I get this reference.

Assuming those officers are following their training, we need to change officer training. That behavior is more military than police.

The military have much stricter rules of engagement and punishment for not following them.
Police behavior is more similar to that of a street gang.
- tbf, if you approach soldiers in an active combat zone while carrying a gun, they are legally allowed to shoot you. The weapon marks you as a combatant.
Military would not mess up this bad!
- Yes, and there was a point of nuance I missed as well. I was not attempting to disparage the modern military though, as much as point out the us-vs-them mentality and pursuit of destruction of the enemy as a high priority.
- You can punish him AND blame the training too, then change the training.
  We can do more than one thing.
- This is a horrible take. A police force only works if they follow a strict set of rules, so we need those rules to be well thought out and defined. Every officer needs to be following their directives to the letter if the police is ever going to be good.
- Everyone needs training for their job. If they do not follow their training, they are probably not doing a good job.

WTH they empty whole clips on her! WHILE asking her to drop the gun!

Not even one magazine, the pig on camera emptied the first magazine, spent longer reloading than she took to dump the mag, and then dumped A SECOND ONE
It's somehow even worse than Acorn Cop, at least he only dumped one magazine
- Too bad it was so close range too. She might have had a chance because their aim was probably just as shit as acorn cop's considering how poorly trained they clearly are 😕

Her first name is Eboni and she lived with her girlfriend... I don't think she's the kind of person second amendment people generally care about.
- They absolutely will rally around this to 'prove' they aren't homophobes.
We're already furious. That's kind of the point.

i learned that if someone bangs on my front door and shouts "Sheriff's office!" then I need to exit my back door, run, and hide.

Arming bureaucrats and giving them legal immunity was maybe society's largest mistake.

There are plenty of cases where the police overreact or use excessive force entirely unjustified. There are even more cases when the police get shot at without any rhythm or reason.

There's a reason they're trained to open fire in uncertain situations. A split second decision might be the difference between them dying on the job and going back home to their families.

So, don't create those uncertain situations, unless getting shot is what you're looking for. If the police are banging on your door, they suspect that something is going on. Best you can do, is help them figure out the situation. The cops, however, are not psychic and don't know you and your intentions. So, if you have a gun, keep it in your holster or off yourself entirely. Identify yourself. Talk to them. Don't just walk out on them, gun in hand...

What the fuck ever.
Being a cop isn't even one of the top 25 most dangerous jobs in America and they get to have a gun and get away with shooting people.
The slogan is 'to protect and serve,' not 'to be a coward and fire an entire clip before you can assess the situation.'
- The slogan isn't "get shot and die, because you're too tough to shoot an armed person first" either.
  Just imagine yourself in this situation: You're a cop. You're in front of a house that someone, reportedly, broke into. You bang on the door and identify yourself. Several seconds later, a person with gun walks out, not saying a word.
  Even if you take a second to access the situation: there's a person, brandishing a weapon (which, in most cases, is a crime) walking out of a house that has been broken into. How does this come off as a safe or normal situation, exactly?
They signed up to abuse power and be bullies not put their life on the line to protect people.
- Clearly that's only reason police exist. No exceptions. They never do anything other than abuse power and shoot people for funzies. Not at all.
  As we all know, the world is perfectly black and white. Assigning qualities to groups of people and, then, treating people in those groups as if all of them posses those same qualities is a perfect system with no flaws. AdolfSchmitler would know.
Yeah so the next time you get pulled over remember to reach for your registration real slow. Wouldn't want to make any uncertain situations by reaching for your glove box too fast. They aren't psychic after all you could have a revolver in there. Your family will take great solace in knowing that the internal investigation didn't find any wrong doing.
- She literally grabbed a gun.
  There's a difference between having a gun on yourself or in the vehicle when you're getting pulled over, and pulling one out and putting it in your hand.
  When you see someone grab a gun, you don't assume they're going to scratch their back with it, do you? So, if you get pulled over and the first thing you do is grab a gun, you'll get lit up. Because you're an idiot.