Posted on 09/15/2020 6:41:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Part of what kept the Jacob Blake frenzy alive on the left was the fact that he did not have a gun. The media and their paramilitary fighters on the street imply that the fact that Blake had a knife was inconsequential. To them, he was unarmed. The same thing is happening with Ricardo Munoz's death in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. A police officer shot Munoz when the latter came after him with a knife. In reality, close-contact knife attacks are horrific and are just as deadly as bullets from afar.
The facts are uncontested: the police got a call from Munoz's family that he was off his schizophrenia medicines. They tried calling Crisis Intervention (i.e., the people leftists insist will take over future policing), only to have the Crisis Intervention people direct them to the police. Within seconds of the first police officer to arrive coming to the front door, Munoz, who had stabbed four people in 2019, rushed at him with a large knife. The police officer, while fleeing, shot him:
This is the bodycam footage of the officer-involved shooting in Lancaster, PA that Black Lives Matter is rioting over. The perpetrator charged at the police officer with a knife over his head with clear intent to strike. pic.twitter.com/xD72TweQK4— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 14, 2020
The incident happens so quickly that it's difficult to see the knife in Munoz's hand. Only a freeze-frame reveals that the knife had at least a five- or six-inch blade.
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It would not matter if they had AK-47’s in their hands when shot by a cop..........................
:: The incident happens so quickly that it’s difficult to see the knife in Munoz’s hand ::
No great loss.
It looked like a cheap santoku.
I would probably choose being shot rather then disembowled by a big book shaped blade.
Hook book whatever.
In 2011, 1,694 people died from knife or sharp object wounds in the US. In the same year, 496 people died from baseball bats, hammers or solid objects.
A threat is a threat....end of story.
What did that piece of cardboard do to provoke the unarmed man with the knife?
It’s time to end the lie that an aggressor wrestling for a gun or attempting to steal a sidearm is “unarmed”.
The Tueller 21 foot rule............
The offcer is very lucky to be alive.
Seems like the Machete is the preferred weapon in England. Oh, its a farm tool, not a weapon. Sledge hammers and axes are also a tools, but not in the hands of Vikings.
And to think, for years there has been a legal battle by those, to have edged weapons included under the 2ns Amendment.
Someone running at you with a knife is a big danger. You have little time to react. If he gets too close he kills you or takes your gun and kills you, before you can shoot him.
The left wants all cops to let all POCs to do whatever they want and not to defend themselves.
If he is a Leftist, probably a cutout of Trump.
Hahaha...Leftist in his back yard talking to a cutout of Trump...
“You talkin’ to me? Are you talkin’ to ME?”
IIRC, that was based on someone with an edged weapon 21 feet away...
But it has been a long time, so not sure.
Well, . . there only one knife away from being unarmed.
BLM: Blake only had ONE knife while the filthy, dirty, rotten, stinkin’ cop had a gun with 15 bullets! That’s not fair! Let’s riot!!!
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