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To: EricT.

did you watch the video


58 posted on 08/21/2014 7:07:51 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

I watched both videos and the knife does not seem to be visible.

I suppose this is a case where one must make a decision: what are we going to believe?

That the police shot someone just for charging at them, two cops shooting one person, when it was clear he was unarmed? (And no threat to them as he didn’t have a weapon and could have been subdued by two trained police officers without deadly force). In other words he was shot in cold blood.

Or...

The police shot this person because he was coming at them with a knife (or charging at them with his hand concealed in his pocket, thus, no way to tell what was in his hand)

Which do you think is the more reasonable scenario?


60 posted on 08/21/2014 7:14:21 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: yldstrk
did you watch the video

Yes. He was acting erratic and tried to flank the cops before advancing toward them. The video was not clear enough to see a knife, but the guarded way he was holding and moving his right hand made me suspect he had a weapon in it.

Maybe you've never been in or around an actual violent encounter. I have-- several times. Everything this guy did was wrong when facing two armed men, let alone two armed men with the force of law protecting them.

I won't fault the cops for this shooting. He was looking for trouble and got it.

A little side note:
I would have expected a lawyer to take a couple of seconds to properly format a sentence in a public forum. Your failure to use capitalization and punctuation does not represent you well as a professional.

84 posted on 08/21/2014 8:09:49 AM PDT by EricT. (Everything not forbidden is compulsory.)
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