(08-29-2020, 03:35 PM)JackCity Wrote:

(08-29-2020, 02:38 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: How are the police supposed to know these people are unarmed??????????????? You have yet to explain this. If a criminal is fleeing and reaching into his pocket or wherever, how is a cop supposed to make a split second judgement and know that criminal isn't reaching for a gun? None of the arguments you make are valid unless you can tell me how a cop is supposed to know if a person is unarmed. Again, this isn't Ireland. The vast majority of our criminals are armed. 

It doesn't matter about the nationality of the prominent figures in the American justice system. They lived here and experienced what being a police officer is all about. You don't.

As for the potato comment, that was low hanging fruit. I'll change that to heads of cabbage.

Theres been two high profile killings in the last month where the subject was unarmed and executed by police. Ones where they knew they were unarmed so your thought process does not follow. Their job is not to kill anyone who may escape unarmed or go against arrest. 

I said it was funny you'd bring it up without knowing the history.

Name them. 

Jacob Blake, the case that recently set off the the most recent firestorm, was a classic case of someone disobeying police. He was tazed, yet still continued to flee and reached into the car, leaving police no choice but to fire on him. They don't know what he was reaching for. 

We had a case here in Cincinnati on the 11th where a man was observed breaking the law. When approached, he tried to flee and was tazed, but continued to fight with officers and since they didn't know if he was armed and he continued to fight, they were left with no choice but to shoot him. 

In Chicago, the criminal was fleeing and tried to run over a police officer with his car. The police gave chase and the criminal continued to flee. They didn't know if the guy had a gun, but since he nearly ran over an officer, he obviously was dangerous. No one knows what happened, because the body cam footage only shows when the one cop shot at the criminal in the car, when he attempted to hit the other officer. When the chase was on foot, we loose visual as the events took place behind a wooden fence, but several shots can be heard. The cops said they were being shot at. 

Those were the cases. All justifiable. What are you referring to?

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