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No it didn't. But as long as whites can walk down streets armed, can kill people and walk past police while armed and don't get shot to death, every time a black person gets killed by police this could happen. I knew a day like this would come and its high time whites shut up with their judgements and defense of police. This guy had a knife. He could have tased and subdued.It didn't have to end in riots, either. Everytime a cop defends his life by shooting a perp who is trying to kill him, are blacks going to burn up the town? 30 cops were taken to the hospital in Philly last night, IM, and that doesn't fly either.A taser can stop this. But there have been people who pulled guns on police and have not been shot. This did not have to end in death.I think it's the unevenness of the weapons. One guy with a knife, several cops with loaded guns. IF the domestic abuser hadn't been shot, had reached the cops, what would have happened? He would have been overwhelmed and taken down, put in the back of a cruiser and taken to jail. Would he really have been able to stab one of them to death first when they all saw him coming and were prepared? I dunno. But I think that's where the complaint probably lies.
You want to be the one to try and stop someone with a knife? Police don't either. That's what there has been a standing many decades. Perp with knife gets within 30 feet, justified to kill him. That's not just police either.
I tried to suggest an alternative, or why it might have seemed unfair to the black community, but the bottom line is, the cops do need to live to fight another day, so to speak, so the only way to prevent this from reaching maximum velocity is to look for alternatives that prevent it from happening in the first place.
We have been getting murdered by police for over 100 years and white citizens have always tried defending the police. If a riot is the language of the unheard, then whites need to stop talking about burning buildings and really do something about the institutional and systemic racism that lets Kyle Rittenhouse walk down the middle of the street armed after killing 2 people but kills a black man who killed no one because he had a knife.