Policing is unfair, but what ya'll are saying ain't really true. Cops kill blacks disproportionately, but they kill whites too. I've come to believe that as long as we frame this as a black issue, they're never going to do enough to stop it. A lot of white people are protesting on behalf of black people, and that's good, but let's be real, the people in power are never going to make substantive change until they believe people like them are in jeopardy too. The reality is they are. These fucked up cops are menaces to everyone.
if you're only way to de-escalate a mental breakdown involving a knife is to shoot the guy 10 times to the back maybe you're pretty shit at youre job, a waste of tax money, and ya need to be fired.
This has to be the wackest take ive read in a while.
the framing of this being a Black issue is right on par with historical contexts. since its inception, american policing has been one of the biggest threats to Black life. not fucking white life.
this is history, this is culture.
sure white ppl get gunned down by police but there are specific cultural, economic and social ties between Black ppl and police
you have 0 clue on what youre talking about and reading your long winded post of nonthingness is making my fucking ass itch.
Shoot him in the leg shit is dumb. yall need to stop with that nonsense
But a taser should have been more than enough.
lmao 2 cops with a gun and one nigga with a butter knife and niggas think the killing was justified
What are you talking about? Where do you see me say it was justified?
I clearly said a taser was more than enough
Facts. People who are trained to deal with knife wielding mental patients exist. They routinely deal with violent mentally ill people. They do this shit all the time. I'm quite sure, today, some mentally ill person at a hospital somewhere lost their shit and ran at someone with a butter knife.
The shit happens. My niece had to be sent to one of those places. They all over the place.
You send two capable people who know how to approach and work with men like that. Life is preserved.
You send cops, somebody getting shot.
That's the issue. Cops aren't trained, taught, or even encouraged to approach people and try to find a solution.
They show up to shoot.
It's really that fucking simple.
Just found out that the young man was mentally ill. I didn't know that last night. Still the cops are not going to let you run up on them with a weapon. Fucked up situation
Mental illness has nothing to do with anything in the eyes of race soldiers
Making this about mental illness is really trying to find humanity in white supremacists. Trying to find an angle to appeal to them is a waste of time and energy
I know thateh... i think ppl are stating that to show why he had a knife.