Let me ask a very simple question.  When you see the police kill a white person who is unarmed and that same police officer gets off scott free what exactly do you do about it.  This is the general question, if you do nothing, if you just accept it as status quo then all lives actually do not mean anything to you.  You see, POC have gotten to the point where they are pissed off that it happens and continue to happen in our society.  People that come with the all lives matter are the same people who has ignored this problems for decades.  They did nothing, will do nothing and want to somehow join the party because they do not see an actual issue.  So when you see BLM, think of it as POC saying we are tired of this happening and if the people who want to parade All Lives matter then they need to get off their buts and seek change as well.  Saying that the Police kill white people or any other race is great, but what are you going to do about it.

Well Luxembourg and the US are not the same country. And I imagine not a lot of black people live in Luxembourg so BLM wouldn't make much sense there.

But here in the US, things can go from 0 to 100 in the blink of an eye and I want to show you another video of how quickly things can escalate even when police simply want to pat down for safety's sake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YmVfr6bn-E

When confronting an armed suspect, police are going to shoot to kill when threatened with a weapon and rightfully so.

"Let me ask a very simple question.  When you see the police kill a white person who is unarmed and that same police officer gets off scott free what exactly do you do about it."

>I advise the family of the deceased to contact legal help and see where they can proceed from there.

"if the people who want to parade All Lives matter then they need to get off their buts and seek change as well"

>Will you be there to naysay us like you just did in the very same paragraph?

"People that come with the all lives matter are the same people who has ignored this problems for decades.  They did nothing, will do nothing and want to somehow join the party because they do not see an actual issue."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

Luxemburg has a homicide rate per 100.000 inhabitants of 0.30. The United States of America has a homicide rate per capita of 4.96. That's a difference. Homicide rate in the USA is by far not the highest. Amongst western countries it is comparatively high. Mexico is at 29.07 and their police patrols often look like this...

Spoiler!

"Shoot'm in the legs, José!" said no mexican police officer ever.

There might be a correlation between crime rate, availability of firearms to criminals and willingness to use them and the extent to which law enforcement is permitted to use deadly force to stop a threat. Always keep in mind, cops are humans, too. Not only is the permission to use firearms in dangerous situations to ensure puplic safety, but also to make sure expensively trained and hard to replace experienced officers stay unharmed, able to do their job and are willing to do so. Why US cops are so shootyshooty, unload half a magazine, whereas in Germany for example the count of bullets shot by police is lower on average? The same reasons. An incapacitated perpetrator with a knife downed on the ground can't do much. With a gun he/she can still be a deadly threat. A recent event demonstrates it perfectly...

Detroit Police Chief James Craig released video of the officer-involved shooting that left a man dead at McNichols and San Juan.

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Littleton drew a handgun from his left pocket, fired at police and missed. Three officers returned fire. Littleton continued to fire his weapon as he was on the ground. There were eight shots fired in five seconds, according to Craig. Four of those shots were fired from three officers; one officer fired two shots, one officer fired one shot and another officer fired one shot. Craig says the other four shots were fired by Littleton.

Even though Hakim was hit by one bullet or more and face down, he was still not done and pulled the trigger of his gun a couple of times more.

I imagine US cops are trained to fire this many rounds. It reflects in the use of their firearms in the field. According to training. Needless to say, that doesn't mean it's always justified.

The incident that is referred to in the next video was the (2nd°) murder of Walter Scott.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Walter_Scott

Well, we do have about 12% black people living in Luxembourg (most of them capeverdians, but other African regions are quickly growing in numbers). That's about the same number as in the US, which reach 13.4% of the US population.

Still, BLM wouldn't make any sense here - but not due to not being enough black people in the country, but rather because there are no policies which would warrant any protests by colored people. We have no racial profiling of any kind (strictly outlawed) or even consider different skin colors as a different race to begin with. There are no differences in how black people or people of any other ethnicity are treated in Luxembourg. Sure, there's always some people with prejudices, but outside of those, no one cares what your skin color is.

In Finland shooting is supposed to stop the dangerous individual from operating. And torso shots are your best bet to achieve it, as it's easiest to hit and likely effective. You can shoot someone's leg and it might not have any instant effect, so it's done if nobody is in immediate danger and ideally with MP5 or similar gun, for better accuracy. Of course, a leg shot can also kill a person in a matter of minutes. 

So, while we don't say "shoot to kill" we aren't really going for non-lethal shots either if shit hit the fan and weapon must be used. I think it's like this in most EU countries.

It's true though that US cops are more "eager" to shoot but I think it's mostly because of culture,  crime rate and stuff. It would be interesting to be a cop in big US city for a while and see if it would affect on how often I'd pull a gun at duty. 

Panic? She was fired at short range and she still managed to operate, call the radio and shoot back. That's damn impressive.

What happens under sudden heavy stress load is something you might not be able to control and it's something that's hard to test or practise. 

Bit fucking much to ask for shooting tires or legs at that point. I'd take her as my patrol partner any day.

d21lewis may be able to answer that.

I'm looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Luxembourg and not finding much on an African population... Help me out here.

Like I said, we don't do racial profiling, so that 12% was an official estimation a couple years ago. I'll get you a source when I find it back.

We just count by nationality, and since many people of sub-Saharan African origin (African people from north of the Sahara desert are not black) came in the 1960-2000 timeframe, and many of them have since acquired the Luxembourgish nationality and/or had children which chose to become Luxembourgers instead of the nationality that their families came from originally, it's impossible to use those raw numbers for any racial statistics.

Sure, it's the same in Sweden. The torso is the easiest part to hit so if the police are in a situation where they can't take any chances that's the part to aim for. But it's done with the intent of disabling the suspect, not killing. That's what I'm getting at. The police aren't supposed to kill, they're supposed to disable. There's a difference there that's important to understand as far as I'm concerned. The police aren't executioners for crying out loud.