Posted on 04/26/2021 12:09:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Rep. Val Demings says she believes the police officer who fatally shot 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant last week was acting in accordance with his training, as body camera footage appears to show the teen was about to stab another girl.
Demings (D-Fla.), the former chief of police in Orlando, made the comments to CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday after being asked about the fatal police shooting in Columbus, Ohio.
“I also was a patrol officer who was out there on the street having to make those split-second decisions,” the Florida lawmaker explained. “Everybody has the benefit of slowing the video down and seizing the perfect moment. The officer on the street does not have that ability. He or she has to make those split-second decisions and they’re tough.”
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Watch the video. It happens so fast. What else could he have done?
I saw the video. That was one of the most justified and well timed shootings I’ve ever seen. She was just about to plunge in that knife and was stopped dead in her tracks thanks to that cop. It played out like a movie.
Anyone - ANYONE - who chooses to blame the cop for that shooting is exposing massive bias that negates any opinion they may have on race relations or cop activity.
He was already dealing with a guy assaulting a woman, so I was
surprised he was tuned into the girl with the knife as well.
Pretty amazing that he was able to save that girl from a
likely fatal stabbing.
Anyone who criticies that cop after watching that video is part of the problem.
Let me cut to the chase and say that Val Demings is going nowhere beyond the House.
Uh oh...she better watch out...incoming from the radical left in 3...2...
As I said on another thread...
“Watch the video and look at the still’s......This is as righteous a shooting as it gets.”
Unless Biden does get that second term, and then who knows?
Smile...
Based on this off program statement, I’d have to agree with
you though.
SHe is was Orange COunty, FL Sheriff, then Mayor. Her Ex Husband was Sheriff and now Mayor.
Black cops are just as likely to kill black suspects as white cops.There needs to be a new paradigm when the media ramps up white cop kills black narrative with video at 11. They’re required to show the shootings of black cop kills white or hispanic to create some balance. We’ll even let them throw in black cop kills black. Not that the black cops did anything wrong, but it goes a long way in countering the racist BLM and media fake narrative
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/26/745731839/new-study-says-white-police-officers-are-not-more-likely-to-shoot-minority-suspe
Yep. This shooting has become a litmus test for me. Anyone who questions the cop’s actions has exposed them self as a hopelessly biased leftist, and has impeached their own opinion on any and all subjects political/social.
watch her get primaried
I have several times.
Every time I watch it I think that the girl in pink is very lucky to be alive and should thank that officer every day for the resto of her life.
Had that officer not been fast and accurate with his side arm she could have been stabbed or the officer could have shot bother young women to death.
As I see the video, the body of the woman with the knife was half obscuring the woman in pink. That means when observing from the officer’s perspective, in two dimensions, the two women presented one target.
Of course the officer could easily discriminate the two targets but it remains that a small error in the short time the officer had to sight his weapon to his target could have meant the death of the woman in pink.
Even a bullet passing through the woman with the knife could have struck the woman in pink causing injury or death.
Woman Fatally Shot by SJPD Was Holding Cordless Drill: Police
It's probably a statistical anomaly, because Santa Clara County is equally split between, Asian, white, and Hispanic, but the black population is less than 2%.
Stopped clock.
A black woman said it! Does that settle it?
Tie-breaker needed. Death match between Val Demings and Maxine Waters.
Who wouldn’t pay to see that?
Whh-woo-hoo!!
fuente -
you be serious rwong
She was Orlando Chief of Police, and the hubby was da sheriff - and she should have been fired for leaving her gun in her vehicle.
Said gun was S T O L E N.
But hey, special rules for special people.
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