Not a "Shootout"

The main stream media has in certain instances taken to calling police shooting down unarmed civilians "shootouts". For purposes of clarification, a "shootout" involves two armed sides firing weapons at each other. When an African-American woman with a baby in her car is gunned down by trigger-happy police in Washington, D.C., no "shootout" has occurred, no matter what reporters say. If the woman had a gun and fired it before police shot back, that would be a shootout. When a terrified and confused woman, has her foot slip off her brake and her car inches forward and then several officers fire numerous rounds at her, that is not a "shootout". Police have recently killed several other unarmed people with so-called journalists saying "shootouts" have occurred. When the police are the only ones doing the shooting, it may or may not be justified, but it is definitely not a "shootout".