I think there’s a good possibility that it’s a knife since the cop still has his weapon pointed directly at the guy.
I understand his kids and a woman were in the car. They could have been victims if the man was in rage.
It’s funny how the media is redefining things these days.
For the longest time, if you were being told by a police officer to stop, put your hands in the air, etc., and you made a sudden move to reach into your pocket, or under the seat of your car, you ran the risk of being shot and the officer would not be at fault.
Common sense tells you that it has to be that way.
It looks like a small pruning saw to me from the size and shape.
Looks like a velociraptor claw.
Karambit.
The media making a victim and Democrats making another hero out of a career thug! The race war the Democrats are trying to spread isn’t working to their political advantage. I really do believe a lot of White independents and Democrats who are sitting on the fence know what’s at stake now if Comatose Joe is (s)elected!
The cop already had his gun drawn.
I know no reason why.
Of course, the quality of the screen cap is vintage 1990s Bigfoot footage!
If you fight with 3 cops while holding a sharp object/weapon...
...get up and walk away when they are telling you to stop at the point of 3 guns...
...then, open your car door and reach down for something...
...guess what Jacob...you are going to get shot...
...and you have a very good chance of dying...
Theory — pure speculation here — they told him to surrender a knife he didn’t trust them to return to him, so he insisted on putting it in the car?
100 Trump bucks to the most creative explanation why the police didn’t immediately state he was armed with a knife if he was indeed armed with a knife.
Druggie pharmakia bag?
It ain’t his phone!
The word from Kenosha is that the dead man had a knife and told the cops he had a gun and was going to his car to get it and kill them.
Stashed it in a fraction of a second in a place where the police couldn’t find it? I find that hard to believe.
Stashed it in a fraction of a second in a place where the police couldn’t find it? I find that hard to believe.
C’mon man, this CRIMINAL deserved to be SHOT! Too bad he lived!
He ASKED FOR IT!
I would have shot him BEFORE he “reached” into the car.
DON’T “REACH” is the final warning before you get shot by police. It’s a turning point in your life if you don’t comply. Maybe, the END of it.
The cops are not going to wait to see what your “reaching” comes up with. By then it may be too late to save the officer’s life.
The officer had no choice but to assume that the CRIMINAL was “reaching” into his vehicle for a weapon, probably a gun, to KILL the officer.
This is a “LIFE or DEATH” moment decision for the officer.
He made the RIGHT decision.