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As I have stated before, always wait for the "police side of the story" before jumping to conclusions. The fact that Jacob Blake has a record of violence does not exonerate the police officer, but it does provide some more context to this police shooting. Discuss....
1 posted on 08/24/2020 10:06:41 AM PDT by bort
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Good work!


2 posted on 08/24/2020 10:10:39 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues th the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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You’d think with all this focus on the police this officer would use restraint. Or he’s a Sorosis plant.


3 posted on 08/24/2020 10:10:59 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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The fact that Jacob Blake has a record of violence does not exonerate the police officer...

Doesn't it?

4 posted on 08/24/2020 10:11:02 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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The fact that Jacob Blake has a record of violence does not exonerate the police officer...

Doesn't it?

5 posted on 08/24/2020 10:11:03 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Another dead thug. Another riot.


6 posted on 08/24/2020 10:11:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Did the police know him? If so, they certainly could radio for his history. If they did so, they would know that he was a criminal with a history of gun violence.


7 posted on 08/24/2020 10:11:30 AM PDT by LouAvul ("..it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps..")
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As I have stated before, always wait for the "police side of the story" before jumping to conclusions.

It was difficult to watch, just like the initial bystander video of George Floyd. But violent criminal cases are indeed the most confused and opaque of all. There’s always a lot of background. Most people lack the intellectual curiosity, or are too lazy to pursue any further information though.

All I know is - you could not pay me enough to be a cop in any American inner-city.

8 posted on 08/24/2020 10:11:40 AM PDT by PGR88
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I watched the video of Blake.

There was something about the way he acted that seemed familiar to me.

Then, I realized what it was.

He was acting like an NBA player.


10 posted on 08/24/2020 10:12:41 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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As soon as he reached into the car, his life was forfeit. I’d say the cops should have known that, and should have taken greater measures to see that he didn’t get the car door open. Dude’s lucky he lived.


12 posted on 08/24/2020 10:13:42 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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Doesn’t matter. The demonic press has already framed the argument in the headlines: “White Cop shoots unharmed black man in back seven times.”


13 posted on 08/24/2020 10:14:01 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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I think everyone’s premise is wrong.

Consider a new concept. Police officers have a right to go home to their families alive.

Ask yourself, how does the police officer get home alive if a person ignores you with a gun pointed at him, and reached into the car?

The officer has two choices at that point. He takes a chance that he doesn’t get to go to his family, or the other guy doesn’t’ go home to his family.

Remember the premise.......


15 posted on 08/24/2020 10:15:22 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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irrelevant to the incident, however


16 posted on 08/24/2020 10:15:46 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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17 posted on 08/24/2020 10:15:51 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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I’d suggest that domestic conflicts in the ‘hood should be allowed to settle themselves out.

There’s apparently no positive societal benefit to sending the PoPo in.


23 posted on 08/24/2020 10:18:30 AM PDT by Paladin2
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Has it been reported whether a weapon was found in the car?


24 posted on 08/24/2020 10:18:43 AM PDT by circlecity
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He also had an outstanding warrant from July 7, 2020 for felony sexual assault which might explain why he didn’t want to stick around.


25 posted on 08/24/2020 10:19:35 AM PDT by loucon (Quarintine by choice is freedom. Quarintine by mandate is ... well you know ... that thing ...)
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Just want to caution. The name is the same, and the age would match, but we do not have confirmation that the 2015 arrest is the same person. “Heavy”, when they searched for police records for Jacob, did not find that 2015 incident.

They did find an arrest warrant for him, for several crimes including violent crimes.


26 posted on 08/24/2020 10:19:57 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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The content is he was told to stop ant go to his car. They had no idea why he was going to his car, was it to retrieve a weapon, we’ll never know.


33 posted on 08/24/2020 10:23:55 AM PDT by stockpirate (Anyone who believes Epstein killed himself is a fool, and the DNC wacked Seth Rich)
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He’d be alive today had the people’s safety department sent a social worker with a clipboard.


37 posted on 08/24/2020 10:25:05 AM PDT by llevrok (Vote while it is still legal! And often.)
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I actually don’t care if the cop killed him in cold blood and that in itself is nothing to riot about, or even protest.

That’s because cold-blooded killings will ALWAYS happen, whether they are by cops (which is extremely rare). There are simply too many cops to expect otherwise, same for any large group.

What I want to see how our JUSTICE SYSTEM responds. If the killing is uncalled for, then is the cop punished? If not, then and ONLY THEN do people have a right to be angry - but if so, then justice is served and any other cop who thinks his badge gives him a license to kill will understand what’s in store for him.

But, at this point, the protests have nothing to do with the killings, they’re the excuse. If the issue was this killing, they’d be protesting the LOCAL police, not police in Helena Montana, who have absolutely NOTHING to do with this killing (and likely any recent killing).

What they want are TWO THINGS - (1) Trump to lose, and this is their get out the vote drive since Biden doesn’t connect well with blacks; and (2) and the end of having to worry about police, so they can do as happens in Third World countries. Basically South Africa is their end-game.


41 posted on 08/24/2020 10:27:46 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here)
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