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stormcrow
Did he shoot at the police first?
If he did fire a gun at police first, it wasn’t very smart.
Mr Kipling
Sounds like another career criminal made a fatal mistake.
Ski mask in July?
ian
Just another day (night?) in the wild west
Laguna
William, I agree to an extent. However, I'd blame more the prevalence of high-caliber automatic weapons: they make everyone quick-triggered. The protester in the fourth photo above is carrying a mighty big gun. That that is lawful is the real problem.
ian
Shooting at him long after he hit the ground and then cuffed him before purportedly attempting first aid.
The real tragedy is that many people think this is okay.
The Avenger
Not condoning the final outcome of this event but fleeing police over a minor traffic violation, shooting at officers during a high speed attempt to flee, bolting from the vehicle in the dark while ignoring orders to stop will nearly always result in undesirable outcomes no matter who you are.
William Bjornson
THIS is the mentality, racism, and cowardice we have come to expect of what are now selected to be American police. Sixty fatal wounds? It will be interesting to see the rationalizations and bald-faced lies that are cooked up to justify this and to not charge everyone there with wanton felonious MURDER albeit some may be shipped off to other police departments to become the same time bombs in a different venue. And we ask, "How could something like that happen in Highland Park?" and then, here, we see the role models for it in our police.
ian
I guess that explains it
ian
Well if there are only two options I guess the right thing for them to do (and obviously to you) would be to shoot an "armed criminal" enough times he got riddled with 60hits
ian
Yep he ran so it cannot be avoided.
Scary
ian
Ah ok.
Good to know that if you don't do those the police will not harm you
The Avenger
These incidents have one thing in common, they are resisting arrest. Do exactly what the officer tells you to do when the officer tells you to do it and you will see tomorrow. Resist arrest or fail to comply with an officer with a gun and bad things are likely going to happen.
ArtistAtLarge
60 fatal wounds is not self defense, it's a street execution.
Attilathehungry
What are the police supposed to do in this situation? Let an armed (at least they thought he was armed) criminal simply escape into the darkness?
Doesn't matter if he was killed with one shot or one hundred. Somehow I doubt the police were worried about the colour of his skin by that point. Escape by car, shoot at police, try to flee into the darkness, ignore police commands to stop.... what other outcome could there be?
kurisupisu
A gun was found in the front seat of the car.
A ballistics check will show its recent use or not.
Look!
If a police officer tells me to do something then I will follow the order.
Running away after being pursued is absolutely no a smart move.
A tragedy for sure but avoidable…
ian
Don't they?
In any case this is not one of those cases, this falls more along the line of excessive force, not following protocols etc
You and the others are saying whatever happened to the person killed here is justified because he resisted arrest and tried to flee.
If thats okay with you, a person resisting arrest or thought to be resisting arrest mowed to the ground by gunfire then really what gods are there must help America
ian
Not established and being dramatized, I don't even want to comment on it
u_s__reamer
The 60+ police bullets pumped into the body of an unarmed black running away, the sickeningly routine serial killing of so many other unarmed blacks by police with guns, and the inaction of state and local police in Uvalde, Texas, who waited for over an hour while a crazed killer with an AR-15 slaughtered 19 children and 2 teachers all have a common cause: FEAR, or what may be called COWARDICE in the line of duty by the "boys in blue" who evidently serve to protect only their own lives and not those of others. It's not about "defunding" the police, but weeding 'em out.
Blacklabel
This article gets right to the narrative doesn’t it?
ian
So what's your take?
virusrex
If this is true, then something has to change with those training and protocols. Anything that says it is appropriate to leave a suspect with 60 wounds and to keep shooting while he is on the ground can't be correct.
ian
But you got all of that from the article
Blacklabel
thats correct.
the police are not just walking around shooting random unarmed Black males for no reason.
ian
What I said that you said was correct was
Blacklabel
Ok remove the “no reason”
are police walking down the street shooting unarmed Black males?
ian
Glad to know that then
Tom San
It was cold that night.
Tom San
Not quite your average law-abiding citizen, was he? Not that I've got anything against folks wearing ski masks or leaving firearms in their car, but that's just me I suppose.
Just a matter of time before the police find something.
More to come. Don't' touch that channel!
Blacklabel
My take?
that someone shot at the cops, took them on a car chase, resisted arrest, then ran away with police chasing him not knowing he left his gun in the car.
that’s the story not innocent “unarmed” Black male shot by police for no reason.
Blacklabel
not really.
Dont shoot at police. Dont start a car chase. Dont resist arrest. Dont try to run away when order to stop.
then its not scary at all.
FizzBit
Imagine you’re driving down the highway or down your street with your family and some guy flies past you going 80mph shooting at cops the cops who are chasing him. Not only is his gun a weapon but also that car. Let’s say he lost control and plowed into your car injuring or killing your family.
well that’s what this guy was doing. Like an insane assassin, he’d kill anything to get away.