The Maria “Masha” Pike Case

Can we learn anything from this one?

You may know this case as “Mom holding baby grabs butcher knife and charges cops, one cop shoots four times and both mom and baby die.” In the course of perpetual-take Internet stuff, it had its 24-hour run in November of 2024, when it happened. This actually happened two days after Trump vs. Kamala, so you may have missed it in that immediate aftermath. But it’s a doozy.

It naturally divided fools into camps because on the one side, you have motherhood, which seemingly should be protected at all costs (even though it isn’t), and babies, who also should be (even though they aren’t), and on the other side, you had cops, who are typically vilified since about 2020 if not before (even when they don’t deserve it), and so everyone who came into contact with this thing had some type of take on it. Again, Trump 2.0 tended to swamp this as the news cycle went.

Here’s a video that walks through most of this:

Important stuff to remember:

1. The actual incident where the mom and baby…