Exclusive: Family calls for inquest, saying Wilkinson visited police ‘almost every day’ before she was murdered by her husband in 2021

  • ThePowerOfGeek
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    731 year ago

    A court has previously heard that Johnston tied Wilkinson to a clothesline and set her on fire on 20 April 2021.

    Holy shit, I assumed it was an impulsive murder (not that that is good). But doing that to her? What a total piece of shit.

      • stopthatgirl7OP
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        201 year ago

        I’m truly disturbed by this having as many likes as it does.

        All y’all lil incels need to go to therapy.

      • @[email protected]
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        181 year ago

        Wow. Way to victim blame the woman for marrying someone she assumed wouldn’t kill her. Like WTF is this incel logic? You’re not a good man killing yourself out of loneliness. You’re a douche bag who doesn’t see WHY they’re alone.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        Edit: I made a snarky comment, but I think you would be better served looking up why abusive relationships are so complicated. It’s more than women picking shitty guys, there are layers of manipulative behavior and the creation of a constant state of dependence and fear. Oftentimes, you don’t realize how shitty someone is until you are deep into the relationship, sometimes you don’t realize it all.

        This is not simple women picking shitty men, there is so much more going on here and you shouldn’t distill it down to something so simple

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          It’s the men who complain about women picking bad guys who are the guys who mask their controlling behavior in “niceness.”

          That’s what got me. I thought he was a good guy, but he was just an MRA idiot.

      • @[email protected]
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        681 year ago

        Good men like you who make domestic abuse ending in murder into a pity party about your loneliness?

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        It could be viewed more accurately as ‘never underestimate the power that emotional abuse and manipulation can have on a vulnerable person’. You’re not wrong exactly but I’m not sure what point you are trying to make. To me it makes it sound like you’re saying she should have known better than to let herself get murdered.

    • @[email protected]
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      141 year ago

      When people say “it is just a few bad apples” they never finish the saying “one bad apple spoils the barrel”

      If someone tries to say that the meaning is different than that just tell them there is only one meaning and it is based on science.

      Ripening apples produce ethylene gas, which triggers aging and increases ethylene production in other, nearby apples.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    Police have the highest rate of domestic abuse as a demographic. Of course they don’t give a shit.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      This is such a daft statement.

      Yes the police in question failed to protect this woman, it’s a complete failure, officers and management in question need to be investigated.

      That said, police assist people with DV issues every day of the week. I’m sure the police station in question resolves 1000s of domestic callouts a year.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Thank you for this. If it wasn’t for one of the cops who responded to my 911 call, I’d still not realize I was being abused.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          I’m getting real weary of Lemmy real quick. There doesn’t seem to be much actual thinking going on, just children trotting out the same tired thoughts in every thread.

          Even an idiot can understand that yes, police do protect businesses, but they do also protect people. Yes, there are a lot of cops who DGAF, but there are also those who genuinely became police to help people. Yes, the US is a place that exists, but there are also many other countries who don’t have the same issues - for example in Australia I’ve found police to be more or less good, helpful people.

          • @[email protected]
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            Eh, a lot of people get butthurt and downvote when reality doesn’t match their armchair ideals. It’s more of a comment on them and their ability to learn than on the comments they downvoted.

    • @[email protected]
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      431 year ago

      “Please officer, please help me. Please do literally anything consistent with the stated role of your profession!”

      “No”

      “Ok, I’m going to ask this of a different officer.”

      “What do you think this is? A Walmart?!”

        • TheLowestStone
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          151 year ago

          I’ve never heard the term before but, based on context, I’d say it means going to multiple police stations looking for a cop who will do what you want. Similar to the way that an addict might visit multiple doctors seeking drugs.

        • Xanthrax
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          111 year ago

          They thought she was lying and trying to get a new cop for a different outcome.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Yes. All cops are bastards, you can’t fight, and you don’t own a gun.

      Who exactly do you expect to protect you in situations like this, then? The fairy-godmother?

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        You’re just FULL of bad takes. Take the L and get off the internet. Or go watch another video from Andrew Tate that just EXUDES homosexual tension, while claiming to be aggressively hetero. I’m sure you love those.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Are you saying people who don’t rely on cops don’t own guns? I have news for you… The media is lying to you.

  • @[email protected]
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    341 year ago

    I hope the police and everyone who ignored her pleas are reminded of her death everyday of the week. Name names.

  • @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    Actions speak louder than words QPS

    Can’t fucking beleive this happened in my own state, my own country

    I thought we wouldn’t have to deal with the same bullshit in america here as well

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Write to your police minister. They know that only a small percentage of people who care actually take the time and effort to write in, so if you do so, it has more of an impact than you may think.

      It also forces them to reply, so the squeaky wheel and all that.

  • @[email protected]
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    201 year ago

    Yes, cop shopping, i’m in here repeatedly trying to get even one of you to give a shit, and you’ve got a perjorative term just ready to hand for that exact situation.

    Policy against giving a shit would go with the territory I suppose, pathological fucking institution.

    • @[email protected]
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      661 year ago

      Nooo. Like their cars say, they’re there to protect and to serve and-… Oh, I see how they may have slipped up on this one. And maybe in a few other incidents… Regularly… All the time…Okay, you have a point.

        • @[email protected]
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          261 year ago

          Protect capitalist interests and serve the capitalist agenda. Steal from a wal mart? Multi unit response. Shoot up a school, light your wife on fire so she burns to death horrifically? Not worth the effort

        • Spaz
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          11 year ago

          They should take a page from senator and yell your attacking me, but add bullets to the mix, ya know?

        • vvvvan
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          91 year ago

          Seems like false advertising. Cease and desist! If not, should be forced to add disclaimer everywhere, stating the fact that they’re not actually legally required to “protect and serve” anyone in particular. And will not be personally liable for any damages (like shooting your dog when they raid the wrong house).

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        That’s why they often put it quotes for plausible deniability: “we just put that on our cars 'cause we heard some guy say it once.”

    • @[email protected]
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      161 year ago

      There was a story on reddit about a ex husband sending death threat letters and police said, “unless you’re being raped or dead, we can’t help you.”

    • @[email protected]
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      181 year ago

      They’re an excuse not to render a service. If you’re in need of protection from a violent neighbor or relative, the police exist as a thing we can say exist to solve the problem without actually solving the problem. If the police don’t respond or treat your case with urgency, we’re allowed to say that the urgency doesn’t exist.

      In a similar vein, they exist to exaggerate the threat of certain areas or populations. If you’re constantly putting squad cars and doing arrests and send in SWAT teams through a neighborhood, we can say that the neighborhood must be very dangerous. More and more police activity in an area flag it as “in need of additional policing” because what would the police be doing except restoring law and order to a neighborhood plagued by anarchy?

      They are, in effect, a tool of state propaganda. Their physical presence (or absence) signals what is taboo (or tacitly encouraged) by the city/state/national leadership.

  • @[email protected]
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    521 year ago

    It’s disgusting as I had to do something similar in Australia before I could find someone to take my domestic violence case serious. Australia cops are a fucking sham when it comes to domestic violence. “Cop shopping”. I hope they rot for coming up for a shit term they coined for boasting about their incompetence. Fucking losers.

    • @[email protected]
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      121 year ago

      A lot of the time the cops are domestic abusers themselves. Have had family stalked and harassed by an AFP cop in the past, and just like you say the cops had no interest whatsoever.

  • @[email protected]
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    651 year ago

    The system is designed to fail the vulnerable. Cops are domestic abusers, racists, and fascists. We need to develop ways to protect ourselves and our community. Wilkinson should have had an option other than the cops. She needed people who had been victimized in the past or at least would believe her and stood to protect her. Folks who would take turns keeping watch over her or give her and her kids a safe place to stay.

    I don’t think the cops can be reformed but that doesn’t mean we can’t keep each other safe.

    • @[email protected]
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      291 year ago

      I suppose holding law enforcement to a higher standard than the rest of us would be a good start. Heck I’d settle for the same standard as the rest of us right now

      • @[email protected]
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        251 year ago

        That would be nice, but how? They have 50 years of excellent, unearned, PR. 20% of scripted television is about unrealistically wonderful cops. When a local government has a problem their first response is always to throw cops at it. Any time they get the slightest pushback they threaten to stop doing all the things the municipality thinks they’re doing. Every time a cop’s ability to do whatever they want, including nothing, is threatened a massive media reaction rises up to defend them.

        That’s why I think we need alternatives. We need to replace cops. The people who solve problems cannot think of themselves as sheep dogs protecting the sheep from the wolves. Someone protecting a potential DV victim from assault might need a gun but someone handling traffic enforcement does not. People running welfare checks don’t need guns. People responding to a public mental health emergency almost never need guns.

        Citation needed and Behind the Bastards cop episodes are excellent background if you’d like to know why I’m so jaded when it comes to cop reform.

        • @[email protected]
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          You ever watch any of those cop shows? They’re not wonderful cops, they literally are walking examples of “ends justify the means” philosophies but with charismatic actors. The constitutional violations are myriad and disturbing, I’d almost call those shows fascist propaganda and maybe y’all should look up Dick Wolf and his standing in the republican party and why conservative politicians sometimes work between terms on his shows portraying elected political types.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            100%. Unrealistically effective is a better way to say it. Cops are bad at solving societal problems. Bad at solving murders, theft, and other crimes. However, those shows basically make the case that cops are the only ones capable of solving those problems.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Wilkinson should have had an option other than the cops.

      She did. Arm herself and stay as far away from him as possible.

  • HarkMahlberg
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    801 year ago

    Days after Wilkinson was killed, Johnston’s lawyer told reporters that “obviously, no one expected this to happen”.

    This fucking nonce’s very existence is an insult to all mankind.