And is congriftwimmin Nuffin here an "Ebonics As A Second Language" instructor? 
Posted on 04/25/2021 2:41:26 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
On MSNBC, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) argued that police officers “could shoot in the air” and that “Teachers go and break up fights with knives every day.”
Beatty said, “We have to have a better way of de-escalating. Here is an occurrence where the police knew they were coming with two girls fighting — or a girl and two adults fighting. You can’t say that you are trained to only shoot to the center of the body. Four shots, I mean, come on, the first shot would knock the knife, a kitchen knife to the ground. When you look at the number of percentages of fatal shootings at the hands of law enforcement in Franklin County, we’re rated 18th out of 100 of the largest, most populous cities in the nation. We need to take a longer look at our system. How are we training police officers? I find it unacceptable that one way of training, one system, one size cannot fit all. You cannot put four bullets into a 16-year-old’s chest. You can’t put six bullets into a person’s back. Now, we’re going from a kitchen knife, a sandwich, a cell phone, car keys. We have to call for more transparency, more training, and more justice.”
She added, “So, if you have a [1]6-year-old with a knife in her hand looking like she’s going to attack her sister, what, you shoot her four times in the chest? I think it’s ridiculous. You could shoot in the air. If you look at that video, with Ma’Khia Bryant, the first shot, the knife is on the ground, people are scattering. It did not make sense. Teachers go and break up fights with knives every day. So, there has to be a better way in this situation.”
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I call BS.
Facts, stats, or stfu.
I can’t decide. Is the Congressional Black Caucus more racist than they are stupid? Or does their stupidity outweigh their racism?
In any event, let’s just keep on hoping that Guam never tips over.
You might let the black dems in congress understand it is ILLEGAL for cops to shoot in the air.....
Low IQ morons, but to her larger point. I am now definitely on the defund the police bandwagon, especially when it comes to slums. They don’t want the cops, so it’s best that they don’t police certain areas.
Yeah, one can shoot in the air. That bullet comes down somewhere. People get killed by falling bullets in celebratory New Orleans every year or so.
How about parents raising kids so they don’t are less likely to get involved in shootouts and knife fights?
It’s comforting to know that so many people are experts in dealing with lunatics wielding knives.
Perhaps they could hold seminars for police departments...
CONgriftwimmings Dinno Nuffin weighs in...
Some one should invite this ignorant woman out to the shooting range, give her a pistol and mount a target the size of a knife on a slender rod or better hang it on a string so it waves wildly in the wind just as it would in an attackers hand.
Lets see her shoot it.
Bullets do come down you know.
Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) argued that police officers “could shoot in the air”...
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For the cost of FedGov, the place should be stacked with Mensa types. Instead we get the cast of Idiocracy.
Urban teachers are specifically told not to break up any fight especially knife fights.
And is congriftwimmin Nuffin here an "Ebonics As A Second Language" instructor?
“London was an exception to the trend of an overall drop in knife killings. The number of homicides – murders or manslaughter offences – involving a knife or sharp instrument decreased by 8% in 2019 to 242 offences. But in the capital there was a 13% increase in homicides involving a knife or sharp instrument, from 77 to 87.”
If someone had shot in the air about nine months before she was born it would have been better for everyone concerned.
As a teen, I saw a few stabbings. Two were at school, one of them fatal. My next door neighbor was stabbed to death at a party. This whole “teachers breaking it up” is a joke. These people are imagining a nice choreographed dance scene like “West Side Story”. Actual “knife fights” outside of Hollywood movies and Broadway shows are exceedingly rare. What happens is STABBINGS and MURDERS.
As Nuffin Beatty explained, teachers break up fights WITH knives.
Must be school-issued...
It goes even beyond that.
In this state it is against the law to fire a warning shot, as in most states.
The theory is that if the situation were truly a threat to life, one would not fire a warning shot. So therefore when you fire a warning shot you are admitting under state law that the situation was not dangerous and you are automatically guilty of brandishing, threatening, etc.
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