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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
News flash... you can have a weapon and not be committing a crime. You can walk around with said weapon, and not commit crimes.
You black folks should try the “not commit a crime” part sometime. You may find that you don’t get shot.
Someone defending themselves with a weapon, like Kyle rittenhouse, shouldn’t be shot by police you freaking dope.
Someone threatening others with a knife, then resisting the cops with said knife should be shot!
You think if when the police approached Kyle rittenhouse if he started acting a fool and resisting them, drawing his weapon on them, he would t be shot because he is white?!?
You want cops to “try and subdue” the guy with the knife?? That brilliant. Let’s say they magically can do this without getting slashed up and stabbed... how do they do it? Using a choke hold, which you also cry about?
So the cops are supposed to risk their lives to play nice with a knife weilding nutcase, and I can’t help but the knife guy bears no responsibility of the outcome in your statements. Maybe knife guy could not threaten people and resist police, while armed? Is that too hard to comprehend?
Honest to god, what a ******* delusional loser you are.