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kirby007 on 13 June 2020
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sundin13 said:
JWeinCom said:

Another killing of a black man... but this one is quite different.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/13/us/atlanta-police-shooting-wendys/index.html

In this situation, the man was drunk, resisting arrest, took an officer's taser, and fired it at him while running away.

I'm not arguing that this was stellar police work... And they should definitely investigate it.  But this is just worlds away from the George Floyd situation.  And people are still protesting, demanding the police chief step down, etc.  You can acknowledge racism in the system without assuming cops are acting out of racism in every instance, or that every use of force is police brutality.  Unless there's something more to the video, I'm just not seeing this, and I think it hurts the credibility of the movement to act as though it is.

While it is unknown at this time what role racism had in this incident (as far as I am aware, we do not know how it got to the point where the fight took place), we have to seriously ask "Should police be deploying lethal force when no lives are in danger?". The man was running away. Yes, he tried to shoot a taser as he was running away, however he was running away. Possession of a taser does not require lethal force, especially when the man is running away.

I was reading a story out of Camden, NJ the other day and they were talking about the changes made after the disbanding of the police force. They brought up one instance in particular where there was a man with a knife who was fleeing from a robbery when he encountered police. Eventually he was arrested and despite swinging the knife at officers, not a single shot was fired. After the incident, the Chief said that if they had approached the situation as they had in the past, they would have had an officer involved shooting.

I see a similar pattern here. It seems like poor policing led to the escalating of the conflict, and the officer deployed lethal force as a response to a non-lethal act of a fleeing man. I don't know if it is about racism, but frankly, I don't think it matters. BLM isn't arguing that cops killing people is cool as long as they do so equally. That isn't justice. Any time an officer wrongfully or excessively uses force, that is a problem which deserves protests and demands for change. This is often the result of a system which needs reform on its use of force and that is what I see here. I don't believe this man needed to die. Let him escape and apprehend him later if necessary, but don't murder him...

cops should start killing more irish and russians, i mean systematic drunks and spies would not be a major loss and it would even out the kill%



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