Legacy, I guess you appear to be concerned about someone implying that you were intentionally lying or disregarding the facts at the exact time of your post. That's why you continue to insist on giving me something time posted before 8/25/20 at 11:59.
Who really cares?? You were wrong. You jumped to conclusions with little information and made incorrect assumptions, almost all proven to be wrong. I'm beyond tired of people, primarily on social media, taking a small snippet of a video and making blanket statements without letting the facts come out.
Now we have this incident being held up as almost a "straw that breaks the camels back" in regards to black injustice. Really?? People want to use this incident as their torchbearer?? A guy who had an arrest warrant, a guy who the cops were trying to arrest using non-lethal means including using a taser. A guy who was carrying a knife and headed back to his car. You want to second guess the cops in this case saying that they shouldn't have feared for their life? I guess you have that privilege. Tell that to the cops in this video who chose not shoot probably because this guy actually was unarmed, but back in the car was a gun.
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Yes, there is racial injustice.
Yes, blacks are routinely treated differently by police.
Yes, there is need for police reform.
Just don't hold up this incident as an example. If you want to argue he should've only been shot a couple of times, fine. Seven times would certainly seem to be excessive. But others have said that police are trained to fire until the threat has ceased. Is there a better way? I don't know.
Miller,
We see a lot of generalizations by posters that I may or may not agree with, especially with the level and intensity that has fanned them.
I stand by mine then and now and examples of deadly use of force both in the last few months and prior. As far as the Kenosha cop,
- there was no evidence of a weapon being brandished
- resisting arrest was not apparent though Blake may have disobeyed an order
- whether Blake possessed a knife that was a danger to law enforcement is questionable
- clearly the cops were over their head in employing de-escalation techniques
- I have yet to see evidence of the felony warrant and the alleged crime
- in addition to de-escalation, non-deadly force such as takedowns or even waiting with a gun drawn on Blake with repeated orders and use of force when a weapon appeared would seem to proper technique and save a life
- seven f***ing rounds in the back with a police handgun? That was meant to kill.
- ballistics - we'll have to wait on what type of ammunition was used and if it's a hollow point meant to inflict maximum damage to organs, I think it's quite amazing Blake survived. I really doubted that he would.
- to put it simply, it looks like his abdominal cavity was exploded. The family attorney says that in addition to severing his spinal cord, bullets damaged his stomach, kidney and liver, and trauma surgeons had to remove nearly his entire colon and small intestine. The extent of any vascular or penetration into the pulmonary cavity damage may not have been a major concern after any initial repairs. The liver especially is very vascular and further bleeding may need to be addressed. As for the loss of virtually his entire digestive system he may get his nutrition IV for the rest of his life if he has nothing to absorb it with.
- the seven rounds possibly of hollow points must have been at such a close range that cluster was on the abdomen. Farther away, lung and cardiac trauma would have added to life-threatening damage.
All in all, the cop did not intend just to disable a possible threat but in his judgement he needed to kill.
If you want to know, all that went through my mind at the time as well as having a video that roared through the Internet on top of all the episodes we have seen. Amazing what trauma surgeons can do. .