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Quoting myself (and MTT) just for context. This was issued yesterday evening:
Attachment 338346
Second angle has me asking: how does that cop justify following him around to the side of the car and not blocking the opening of the door? If you're so afraid of what's inside, don't let him go inside. I don't see an attempt to lean on the door to keep the guy from opening it. It sure looks like he's right there--he was certainly in position to shoot about 2 seconds later and he had to go around the door to get there.
Failure to de-escalate has serious consequences just now and reasonable people know that. Is the destruction of society intentional or have we empowered a lot of unreasonable people? Or both?
so were there some fine people in those trucks?
Fun fact: I grew up less than 1mile from the intersection of State Highway 50 and Green Bay Road.
Here's my uninformed guess. The police got a "tip" and located the vehicles. They followed the vehicles to Washington Road and 30th Ave. (which, although only about 5miles apart, it requires effort....in other words: that annoying stop-and-go city (can take 1/2hr to go 5miles) traffic we all seek to avoid. BUT: It was really the out-of-state plates that drew the attention as I believe there was a curfew in effect.
EDIT B/C FORGOT TO TYPE: 30th and Wash. is in the area of the shooting.
While there is no "timestamp" on the Media Release, I'm guessing the stop was based on out-of-state people having no business in the curfew area. I could see a scenario where it was a "preventative" stop and, ultimately, charges are dropped or there are no convictions.
Fun fact #2: Just up Washington Road from 30th is the Washington Park Velodrome, the oldest operating velodrome in the U.S.
It's from back in March, but I don't think it was posted here.
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/l...c-ddd2255a5a6f
Kinda blows the whole "if you don't resist they won't harm you" thing out of the water. They had the wrong guy, kick him in the back, arrest him, and charge him with "resisting" arrest.
Apparently he had a knife, a warrant for felony sexual assault, put an officer in a head lock and had a car full of kids.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.new...outputType=amp
But let him go, maybe it will work out.
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So what should these cops have done after a they came into contact with this guy with an outstanding rape warrant who resisted arrest, put a cop in headlock, not gone down from a taser, has a knife, fought off three cops, ran around the car and started to get in the car to either get a weapon or to drive off?
It’s not one on one. Take him down. The answer to “we’re having a hard time arresting a guy” isn’t “fuck it, empty your clip into his back”.
Ask any prison guard how to handle an aggressive guy who maybe could stab you...if that wasn’t a standard training thing, there would be 100 shootings a day in the prisons.
Holy shit. Come on man.
I can’t sit here and argue this out with you.
May karma send an incompetent, twitchy, lying, shitbird cop into your life. That’s probably the only way you’ll learn.
I’ve come across my share of pigs and had a couple first hand powertripping aholes fuck with me.
I was taught at a young age to comply with the cops and never resist or give them any reason to fuck you up, not out of respect but out of self preservation.
I dont know what the full set of answers to rehab the police system is, but being a rape suspect with warrant outstanding and fighting the cops, having a knife, and trying to flee or get something from the car is a way to get killed.
I’m all for the little guy and stopping systemic racism and Police abuse but there gets to a point where the guy is simply likely to get this response.
When people use these situations as a rallying cry, it undermines the positive direction of the movement. Reasonable people see that this isnt the cut and dry police brutality/racism story and the movement loses much credibility.
Michael Brown robbed a store and assaulted a cop and then moved threateningly back toward cop.
Blake was legitimately being arrestes but fought back, assaulted a cop, had a weapon, and would have reasonably been considered a threat.
Floyd was murdered as he was cuffed and under control.
Stay with the cases that are cut and dry abuse, not like they aren't plenty of those to rally around.
just because this case isn’t cut and dry doesn’t mean there isn’t something fishy here. honestly, how competent do the cops seem to you? it seems like he was running away to make the beating stop. not smart, but still no evidence he had a weapon or was reaching for it.
those two cops entered the situation and it escalated out of control. this could be an ‘accident’ in some way but it also shows that not everyone has the nerves, training, or personal skills to be a cop.