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1. There were only two options, shoot the girl with the knife, or let the girl in pink die. Police policies are to protect the innocent. This case isn't even close. The shooting was totally justified according to current police policies.1. There was no other option than to shoot the murdering perp, white or black to protect the unarmed girl.Amost certainly NO.
A more proficient police officer would have been able to remedy the situation so that it didn't result in death.
Death was the outcome and that can never be seen as a successful handling of the situation.
Once again is simply boils downt bab policing that's due to a lack of police concern for black lives.
It would be a near certainty that had the knife wielder been a white child and the intended victim a black child, the outcome would have been different and more desirable.
Americans can't understand this and so the fight to reform their police will be long, which will most likely result in police pushing the envelope on their right to kill to even greater heights.
Your answer is to let the murder happen??????? Unacceptable.
2. In 2022 and 2024 the voters will decide what type of police forces they want.
1. How do you know there was no other option? The police didn't even tell her to drop the knife. They just rolled up and opened fire without even trying other options. This is exactly the time to use the taser.
2. The girl dropped the knife when the first shot hit her. Why was it necessary to shoot her 3 more times in the chest? She might have survived one bullet.
3. What if the girl who was shot was the one being attacked and she was defending herself? That's what the bystanders said was happening. The 15 year old girl was being attacked by two adults, and she was defending herself with a KITCHEN knife. Her attackers were in no danger of being killed by that knife.
4. The voters have already decided and it's not a police force that shoots first and asks questions later.
American police shoot and kill more than 1000 people per year. They are more likely to shoot black people without trying to resolve the situation, than white people. A lot more likely. Furthermore, when police shoot white people, they are more likely to survive the shooting than black people. One shot will general stop them. Emptying clips into people generally kills them.
2. The four shots were in rapid succession, when you're shooting looking down the barrel you don't have any vision other than hitting the target and not the "pink hostage".
3. What if pigs had wings? What if the moon was green cheese? What ifs aren't reality. Police training is reality, and the cop did what he was supposed to do.
4. The voters had nothing to do with this cop's actions. His training kicked-in and he did his job. If in the future police policies change, fine, however, I still think that the girls with knives about to stab an unarmed person will always be shot.