Posted on 04/15/2021 1:46:33 PM PDT by Shadylake
The race war agitators, like Gayle King are showing ONE FRAME from the fast action after he tossed the gun and turned pretending to raise his arms. These people need to go to a training camp and see how long they have to a life/death situation to react.
Ouch that hurt... Not. :)
Yep...
He was running with a gun, he tossed it into the open area in the fence as he was turning around. The cop knew he had a gun, so was correct to assume her life was in danger, when he suddenly turned around.
The little punk should not have been out at that time doing whatever he was doing. I side with the cop. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
What is all this horsesh*t (a higher quality then bullsh*t) about cops must be “getting a bonus for shooting black kids”...???
What does EVERY SINGLE ONE of these incidents have in comment?
THEY WERE COMMITTING A CRIME.
No more Ness Vs Gangsters someone has to clean the up the mess to keep the rats form expanding.
For all the sound and fury here that this is a cop hating forum you sure can’t tell from the replies on these threads
Freepers twist and twist to justify a bad shoot
The anti cop fervor here is quite minimal
This is forum is plurality 55 plus white women and single by the book single white men are next largest group
Not exactly the demographic for cop hating
I have mixed feelings on police but do fear overreach having experienced it personally
Most here have barely even had parking tickets
You deal with cops and especially DAs and you learn....
That said the politics of all this is nuclear
My gut reaction is I hate to see 13 year olds killed regardless....I’ve had 13 year olds
They are children however misguided
There is little empathy for that here....and overwhelming rationalization for any police firearm discharge....
You have a gun...cop can shoot you
People here should really give that more thought....
Not much consolation to you I’m sure but I’m with you more than the prevailing wind here
Chicago’s Non-Judgmental Mayor
April 12, 2021
Florian Sohnke
It is fair to pass judgment on Adam Toledo’s death
Two weeks ago, a Chicago Police Officer shot and killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo.
What occurred in the early morning hours of March 29, 2021, was a terrible tragedy, but a misfortune which could have been averted. According to a reliable account of the incident, shortly after 2:30 a.m., a ShotSpotter detected a burst of gunfire in the area of the 2300 block of South Sawyer Avenue. Responding to the clatter of shots, two Chicago Police Department (CPD) tactical officers arrived at the scene and discovered two males in the area. Both fled police.
After a brief chase, police took one man, Ruben Roman Jr., into custody. Though Roman Jr. was unarmed, he was later charged with resisting arrest. The fate of Adam Toledo, who was armed, was vastly different. After refusing to respond to lawful police commands to abandon his attempted flight and surrender, Toledo, a handgun clearly visible in his right hand, neared an aperture in a fence. Continuing to disregard numerous lawful police commands and flee police, Toledo then appears to make a sweeping gesture with his arms and rotated quickly to face the officer trailing him.
At this moment, from the officer’s perception, Toledo may have been raising his arm to fire at the officer in pursuit. Nevertheless, the police officer giving chase had only a fraction of a second to resolve over whether to fire. Indeed, the officer made a wise decision: By firing at Toledo and striking him down, the officer stopped an immediate, deadly threat to his life from an armed suspect who repeatedly refused to obey lawful commands from police.
Days later, as the drip-drip of minutiae related to Toledo’s death sluggishly filtered out into the public, Mayor Lori Lightfoot visited Little Village’s New Life Community Church on South Sawyer Avenue. For a woman with a blemished and declining public image, Lightfoot’s press conference was a disaster she could not afford. To open the Monday, April 5, briefing, Ms. Lightfoot allowed Matt DeMateo, a pastor with New Life to lead an invocation. Hardly a man with the manner and appearance of an amiable clergyman, DeMateo, the hipster vicar, wore his headgear backward, appealed for hope, healing, and wisdom, and described Chicago as under siege from the great deluded moral panic of racism and white supremacy.
Excerpt: https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicagos-non-judgmental-mayor
I too have been on the receiving end of the “justice system” that is all but just. But I guess I was lucky because I was not wearing “The hoodie of guilt”. “False arrest” is a real thing period. So many stigmas and prejudices that ignore this reality.
Y’all were right, I was wrong. Punk did have a gun. Cop had no choice when he saw the kid turn fast. My bad.
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