(06-16-2020, 10:13 AM)p_rushing Wrote: There is a reason he started fighting and ran once he was being arrested. It had nothing to do with injustice. He couldn't afford to get arrested again after just getting out on probation after a previous violation. If you just don't fight with cops this stuff won't happen.

You want to expose racist cops, then the only way is to comply with all their requests.

Should running from the cops merit a death sentence, though? I understand that a taser was fired back towards cops and, to be totally honest, I'm ok with the idea of firing on a suspect as they are firing at you when it's something like a taser that takes certain circumstances to be lethal. It looks to me like that taser was spent before the officer shot Brooks in the back. On the long list of incidents of police brutality since this has started, I don't really even place this one all that high on the list, and I don't think race played into it at all. There have been other documented incidents in Atlanta of multiple officers beating and tasing suspects already on the ground, flashbangs being intentionally thrown directly at the feet of peaceful protesters long before curfew...if you want to see police brutality, look there. However, I don't think that shooting someone in the back as they're fleeing you is not acceptable unless they're pointing a credible weapon (i.e., not a spent taser) at others.

I don't know that I buy police brutality in this case. I certainly don't buy racism, and I definitely don't buy the idea that the only major city police chief who's acted like anything other than a monkey [BLEEP] a football since the death of George Floyd should be fi-resigned over it. I do know that fleeing the police in and of itself is not worthy of a death sentence, and I wouldn't complain in the least if most beat cops had their firearms taken away and replaced with tasers completely. If cops can't handle the responsibility of being judge, jury and executioner without shooting people in the back, then maybe they shouldn't be put in that position.

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