Comments Thread For: Caleb Plant's Mother Shot and Killed By Deputy in Cheatham

[OldTerry]

This is not the time for that ****** racial BS.

That trigger happy cop should be sentenced to life in prison. It seems they kill people casually these days.

A lady with a knife? Use a baton, even a baseball bat, but not kill her outright. Shoot her in the leg or something. Damn cops.

If she had a knife then she was dangerous and appears she was also mentally disturbed. It is easy to pass judgement without knowing all the facts and circumstances. She brought her own "death by cop" upon herself and cop body cams show this is ALMOST always the case. Our police put themselves and their lives on the line everyday and deserve commendation not condemnation.

[OldTerry]

How is it that american police don't know how to disarm an old woman?

Tell us how you would have disarmed her.

[OldTerry]

The sad thing is cops are only taught one way to deal with a person with a weapon. Once they see a weapon they're authorized to use deadly force.

It's a sad situation but it happens a lot.

You are right and that is why only a fool would put a cop in the position where he/she might feel they have to use deadly force.

[BoxingIsGreat]

If she had a knife then she was dangerous and appears she was also mentally disturbed. It is easy to pass judgement without knowing all the facts and circumstances. She brought her own "death by cop" upon herself and cop body cams show this is ALMOST always the case. Our police put themselves and their lives on the line everyday and deserve commendation not condemnation.

Her own "death by cop"? Aren't you also making judgments here without knowing the facts? Hopefully, that cop was wearing his cam, and didn't conveniently forget!

[OldTerry]

She obviously had a mental deficiency or had a mental breakdown. Either way she's an old lady and could have easily been disarmed by a full grown man without the use of deadly force. This kind of training is standard across most police forces, obviously america has some catching up to do in that regard.

Imagine if your mother put down the crack pipe long enough to find herself in this kind of situation, would you be advocating she be shot too?

This is like debating with North Koreans on Kim Jong Un's legitimacy, your minds are completely manipulated and controlled by the state. Fascism if I've ever seen it.

It's easy to see you are an America hater. Just remember the United States is the most powerful and influential nation in the world, bar none.

[OldTerry]

No he doesn't deserve to go to jail. His actions are within the legal limitations. If someone pulls out a lethal weapon and attacks a cop, he is allowed to use lethal force to stop them, irrespective or age, gender, or race.

Now I agree I wouldn't have shot her, I would have just kicked her in the chest or something. She couldn't have been that fast and she fo damn sho would have dropped the knife on her way down.

But the cop acted lawfully nonetheless and who is to say the old woman ain't a black belt or something. Cops are people too and have the right to defend themselves when threatened.

But I think people trying to compare this to black folks protests are just being incensitive. Black folk have been shot without brandishing a weapon and without attacking officers, they been shot while trying to comply with cop instructions. Some have been shot while resisting arrest, but then what do you do when you're being harassed by the cop and being arresting for just being black? Did you know that you have thr right to resist an unlawful arrest. Also some these white cops, if not harass, outright provoke black folk and then shoot them when they react to their provocation.

This is completely different to what happened to this woman. She attacked with a knife, that's just asking to get shot no matter what colour, age, or gender you are.

PS. Some of these black guys are gang****ers though, hardcore, serious criminals with no compulsion about killing people, innocent or otherwise, cop or otherwise. So it's a tricky situation, some of these cops are prob walking around terrified out their minds, but they chose the job and they been trained for it, so they just gotta do their jobs properly man.

You nailed everything perfectly.

[strykr619]

She obviously had a mental deficiency or had a mental breakdown. Either way she's an old lady and could have easily been disarmed by a full grown man without the use of deadly force. This kind of training is standard across most police forces, obviously america has some catching up to do in that regard.

Imagine if your mother put down the crack pipe long enough to find herself in this kind of situation, would you be advocating she be shot too?

This is like debating with North Koreans on Kim Jong Un's legitimacy, your minds are completely manipulated and controlled by the state. Fascism if I've ever seen it.

Look i may have came off as insensitive but now that the state is investigating the shooting lets see what happens, the bodycam video is key here.

[strykr619]

I would've tazed her immediately, if it was me. I think they're taught to perceive knifes as lethal force and thus they also fight with lethal force on the off chance that if someone is on meth or pain dulling drug like PCP and maybe fights through a taser(Don't quote me on that). Hard to comment without the video.

I'm guessing this lady was just a schiz. RIP to her. Plant must be one of the unluckiest guys in boxing which is saying a lot considering where a lot of guy's come from.

She was being transported to the hospital what if the taser made her medical condition worse and she died anyways? This is a lose lose situation all around for both the family and the police, no one wins in this.

[OldTerry]

Does anybody know if his mom had some kind of mental health issues? Sounds strange that cops would shot a middle aged white woman.

Man you just stepped into it bring up age, race and gender into the equation. Look at it this way the cop (male or female or undecided) shot a person with a knife.

[Steven Mccowan]

These weirdo cowards need to be trained on how to shoot in a leg or something else. I mean an old lady with a knife? Happens too much. Hey if it's a gun I'm all for it...