She could have refrained from having drugs in her possession, but I know that suggestion is beyond the pale today. Tennessee woman Nika Holbert killed in shootout with cop
The usual suspects are trying to incite riots, but I haven't read that any have taken place.
Footage of the Friday morning encounter between Metro Nashville Police Officer Josh Baker and Nika N. Holbert, 31, shows the 14-year veteran cop deploying his Taser on the woman while ordering her to get out of a car.
Baker then tries to take the woman into custody as she yells and reaches for a handgun, opening fire on the officer, who shoots back and fatally wounds Holbert
The registered owner of the car she was driving was wanted by police, so Officer Baker initiated a traffic stop. It started OK but when he found a white powder and marijuana things went off the rails.
Holbert, who was smoking a cigarette at the time, ignores the cop’s commands and gets back into the car, where she is hit with the stun gun. She then screams for help while struggling with Baker as she sits in the driver’s seat and appears to reach for a weapon, the footage shows.
Nika Nicole Holbert is a 31-year-old resident of Madison, Tennessee with a long criminal record. A rap sheet released by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has listed multiple offenses committed by Holbert, from driving under a revoked license to public indecency and for using an altered or false document. She also has a felony drug charge from 2010. The sheet indicates that her last interaction with law enforcement was in 2017, when she was charged with public indecency.
She apparently decided that a shootout with police was preferable to going to jail. I don't know if she got her wish, but the result is hardly shocking.
For a comparison of another, very similar shooting see Kentucky Cops Shoot a White Guy from The Other McCain.
This is a 15 minute video of the encounter between Baker and Holbert. It includes some news video, and both the bodycam and dashcam video from Officer Baker. It shows both Holbert and Baker getting shot. Holbert died in a crash a short distance from the shootout. Baker was in stable condition after surgery.
The Other McCain also considered this case. Nika Holbert and the BLM Myth.
Ma’am, Nika Holbert was not an innocent woman. She shot first.
You pull a gun on a cop, expect to die. I don’t know how to explain that more clearly. Cops aren’t trained to lose gunfights.
Officer Baker did not keep the woman under control, which in the end she was able to get to her gun
ReplyDeleteThat doughnut vacuum did just about EVERYTHING wrong in that interaction. He was extremely lucky that he squared off against someone who likely had almost ZERO actual skills with a firearm....and STILL hit him with rounds. This video should be a training video on NUMEROUS things to NOT do.
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