Dude was walking up to police with his hand out. They keep killing my people. It’s so exhausting.
Edit: He might have a knife. I’m not sure if he does or if police are being scummy police.
Edit: Witnesses said he had a knife so that might just be true.
So they signaled him to move towards them? And shot him when he did?
you can see something in his right hand at the beginning of the vid, which the woman behind him is trying to take away… but it doesnt really look much like a knife, so idk wtf it is
either way, having a weapon does not give cops the right to murder someone. especially not a “knife”
stab vests are a thing, tasers are a thing, but beyond all that, deescalation is a thing.
ACAB
Those cops knew that if they deescalated, they might get fired for it. ACAB.
The woman at the beginning of the clip is all the proof you need this could have been deescalated. She literally went up to him and tried to grab the knife or whatever.
If she pulled a gun on him, had him in his sights, and had a systemic reputation of shooting first and asking questions later, something tells me she wouldn’t have been able to do approach him so easily. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
stab vests are a thing, tasers are a thing,but beyond all that, deescalation is a thing.
While I agree with most of what you said, if someone is coming at me with a knife and I have a gun, I am shooting them. For one, a stab vest is gonna do jackshit when I stab you in the neck and tasers fail a good amount of times since they depend on prodes actually hitting your skin and both have to hit. When in close combat, you are better off just hitting someone on the head with the taser then actually firing.
Maybe it’s because of where I grew up and I have seen my fair share of stabbings, having hands cut off and getting gutted, but if you within 3 meters of me with a knife, I ain’t gonna be deescalating you and playing nice with you, it’s life or death and I ain’t taking my chances
