No I'm not, you're deflecting because again you know that there are circumstances where police could have apprehended a person another way but chose not to - this is literally the source of what is called POLICE BRUTALITY. They told Philando Castile 3 times not to reach for his firearm before killing him in front of his 4 year old daughter, they told Amadou Diallo to stop and put his hands up, Diallo scoffed and continued up his steps before being shot 41 times, Sean Bell crashed a car into another officer's cruiser (toxicology reports said he was legally intoxicated before officers both on and off duty, opened fire). The argument here is that police officers have options but elect not to use them and abuse their power, this is why police brutality is such a problem in America and has made it's way to an election issue people keep bringing up.
And again Laquan McDonald was given 3 warnings to put down the knife before walking away and then he was gunned down. You can actually wiki the case and watch the video on CNN video page. Out of 7 officers one chose to pick up a gun and gunned him down, there are a lot of instances like that but one person goes home without a loved one.
My dude this my last post on the subject, I strongly encourage you read up on these social issues and think twice.
I"ve read up on everything. You're still comparing apples to nectarines here.
Did this cop have another option? My reading says "no" because that city hasn't deployed non-lethal options to their officers.
Philando's situation was completely different. Although he had a legit weapon in his possession, he had not drawn that weapon; he never reached for it at all. The cop in that situation was basically a scary ass bitch. He was terrified that a Black man even possessed a weapon in his vicinity. Never mind that he hadn't even seen the damned thing 'cause it was still stored.
Sean Bell's murder is even more different. Him and his boys were murdered by plainclothes cops that never identified themselves as police and simply came at them with guns out (witnesses corroborate this version of events). How is this even close to being the same dawg???
Amadou Diallo had no gun and posed no threat to the cops. He was murdered in cold blood.
While Laquan McDonald actually had a knife, he was walking AWAY from the police, not advancing towards them or threatening them. Again, this is a whole different scenario.
This woman had a weapon in her hand, actively made threats against the cop, repeatedly ignored commands to drop the weapon, and charged the cop resulting in her getting slugged up. Not one of these other incidents is the same and the only one that's even remotely similar (Laquan's), you don't have a suspect charging at the cops, you have the exact opposite.
Again, you're trying to manipulate the narrative to fit your view but you picked the worst possible examples.
www.apmreports.org
