Destinee Thompson was supposed to be on her way to lunch with her stepmother in August 2021 when Colorado police, mistaking her for a robbery suspect, fatally shot the pregnant mother as she fled in her minivan.

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        And it’s so easy to get around that too. Just say “the Police killed a woman…” That is an absolute fact. Not saying murder which is a crime that they haven’t yet been found guilty of.

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      Died due to complications around a lead allergy. Yea, journalists are super bad about passive headlines around the roving police gangs murdering folks. Reform begins with using appropriate language.

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      Officer-adjacent ballistic event resulted in a cessation of vitality in a non-suspect personage

      They take your life in the street, then they take your humanity at the press conference.