Archived page, if you’re paywalled or region-blocked.
He had a knife… on a stick.
I’ll need to see the video on this one, officers, but for now, mark me as damned skeptical that this killing was self-defense.
Archived page, if you’re paywalled or region-blocked.
He had a knife… on a stick.
I’ll need to see the video on this one, officers, but for now, mark me as damned skeptical that this killing was self-defense.
He doubts this man had to die. Qualified police should have been able ro subdue him without deadly force.
Would you try and subdue someone like that? Because I wouldn’t.
Would you do it if you had a taser, a baton, years of training, and a radio to call for backup?
Do you know they didn’t try the tazer?
And no, I’m not taking on someone armed with a knife with a baton, what the hell is wrong with you?
My favorite thing about you making dumbass comments all over the place in this post is you obviously haven’t even read the article lmao.
You don’t even know if what your saying has anything to do with the situation. You have no idea what even happened.
Yeah, that’s why I was careful when writing my own. The article only gives a vague description of what happened. Even then, most of those descriptions come from people who need their actions to look justified, so they don’t lose their jobs or face charges.
Yeah, that’s the truth. We don’t know the truth, except that someone’s dead. Won’t know the truth until the cops share the video, if they do.
Would you look at that, turns out they did.
Look at that. The wonders of reading.
There are more choices in any given situation than just “do nothing” or “extreme”
Such as?
Deescalate for one.
What makes you think they didn’t try?
Because they’re cops.
Interesting.
You sound like a cop.
Are you a cop? Because people who wouldn’t shouldn’t be.
That’s not what I asked you.
But it’s the right answer. If it’s not your job you don’t have to be willing to risk your life to save another. You’re asking an irrelevant question and you know it.
What right do you have to expect someone else to do it, if you wouldn’t do so yourself?
Every?
No one is forced to be a cop.
I wouldn’t jump into a fire either, but I’d be pissed if someone chose to be a firefighter and refused to fight fire.
I wouldn’t fly a plane so am I not allowed to travel via air? I wouldn’t drive a bus so I can’t send my kid off to school on the bus? I wouldn’t teach children math so I shouldn’t let my kid go to math class? Make your question make sense please. I didn’t force anyone to be a cop and as far as I know, no point in the history of the United States of America has an individual been forced to be a police officer. If you choose a dangerous job you have to be willing to face those dangers. You wouldn’t trust a surgeon who’s afraid of blood to perform open heart surgery, why should I trust a cop who is afraid of a knife to protect me from thieves?
Edit: missed a word
Yeah. Can and have, plenty of times, armed with nothing and fully expected not to damage the people living in the facility.
I can’t say I’ve never gotten bumps or bruises and it isn’t a job for everybody, but I’d argue that statement then goes double for someone who’s expected to respond to this sort of thing in a less controlled environment.
How many of them had knives?
Several! Knives, improvised clubs, chains, I’ve seen all kinds of stuff