neil999
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Poor policing/training, guns everywhere, racism in some instants... It's an awful combination
Current Affairs The " another shooting in America " thread
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tsubaki
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ah yes, the old freeze frame - that proves it
if he had a knife, why did the cop try to grab him again
The prevalence of guns in the US means that every single police encounter is a potentially lethal one. Even if the suspect is unarmed, the cop themselves has a gun, so going hand to hand with someone risks losing control of their own gun. It makes for scared cops, understandably reluctant to go hand to hand, and lose the advantage they have.
If I lived in the US, I would tell my kid to comply 100%, no matter how unreasonable, incorrect, racist, or out of line the cop was, the time to argue is the next day at the station with a lawyer.
But knowing you‘re not gonna get 100% compliance, police training has to be better than this. The car should have been searched. There were multiple cops on the scene who should have been better trained to use non lethal force, and incapacitate the guy.
These incidents will happen again and again, until a truly 100% effective non-lethal weapon is produced (tasers are around 55 - 80% effective, from an article I read), or until the US comes to it’s senses on it’s second amendment - possibly the worst bit of legislation ever written.
If I lived in the US, I would tell my kid to comply 100%, no matter how unreasonable, incorrect, racist, or out of line the cop was, the time to argue is the next day at the station with a lawyer.
But knowing you‘re not gonna get 100% compliance, police training has to be better than this. The car should have been searched. There were multiple cops on the scene who should have been better trained to use non lethal force, and incapacitate the guy.
These incidents will happen again and again, until a truly 100% effective non-lethal weapon is produced (tasers are around 55 - 80% effective, from an article I read), or until the US comes to it’s senses on it’s second amendment - possibly the worst bit of legislation ever written.
Also if that was a knife (which I’m not sure it is, going by the shape of it in the video) why were the police in the beginning standing about a foot away from him and therefore well within stabbing range?
Tir Eoghain Blue
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Video shows Jacob Blake brawling with cops before he was shot
Video shows the events leading up to the shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black man, though the footage is taken from the opposite angle of the other cell phone clip.
Watch the second video. The officers on scene should have been able to detain Blake and get him cuffed, or they should have used all of their body weight to hold him down.
poor tactics overall and hopefully Blake will recover fully from his injuries
George Floyd was complying.
Yes, he was.
paralyzed from the waist down because some idiot cop with 2 months training over reacted.Video shows Jacob Blake brawling with cops before he was shot
Video shows the events leading up to the shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black man, though the footage is taken from the opposite angle of the other cell phone clip.www.dailymail.co.uk
Watch the second video. The officers on scene should have been able to detain Blake and get him cuffed, or they should have used all of their body weight to hold him down.
poor tactics overall and hopefully Blake will recover fully from his injuries
neil999
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Very young child wondering about, horrendousVideo shows Jacob Blake brawling with cops before he was shot
Video shows the events leading up to the shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black man, though the footage is taken from the opposite angle of the other cell phone clip.
Watch the second video. The officers on scene should have been able to detain Blake and get him cuffed, or they should have used all of their body weight to hold him down.
poor tactics overall and hopefully Blake will recover fully from his injuries
TheBigIguana
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NilSatisOptimum
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Xi Jinping Rouhani and such like cannot believe how much propaganda American Police regularly and freely give to them, so very damaging this on the world stage.
The blame for me, lies with a society that has so many guns that it could be reasonably assumed that the guy was going to grab a gun from his car.
Countries which don't have the general public walking around the streets with assault rifles, don't seem to have police walking around pumping bullets into the general public. It really isn't rocket science.
It's an amendment to their constitution that allows people to carry guns (which are totally ineffective in a militia when the govt have drones, tanks, missiles etc anyway), time to make another amendment to it.
The binman chronicles
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This really, you have to be an idiot to try and fight them and/or run away. The cops don't know if he is armed or is running to a place they have a weapon.
The videos of the shootings and killings in Kenosha, by a teenage member of an armed militia patrolling the streets, are absolutely nuts.
If you have dozens of civilians walking around the streets armed with assault rifles, intent on doing the Police's job, people are going to die.
Thank Chris we don't have the same gun issue here. All of those "statue defenders" turning up to Westminster with AK47s, it doesn't bear thinking about.
If you have dozens of civilians walking around the streets armed with assault rifles, intent on doing the Police's job, people are going to die.
Thank Chris we don't have the same gun issue here. All of those "statue defenders" turning up to Westminster with AK47s, it doesn't bear thinking about.
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