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Originally Posted by detbuch
Don't recall of of the above, but in the boy with the toy gun, he wasn't "blamed," it was explained why the cops shot, the gun looked real. I'm sure, good man that you are, that if a kid pointed what looked like a real gun at you, you would just wait and see if he would intentionally or accidentally pull the trigger.
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12 year old boy playing with an airsoft gun. Person who called the police said it was probably fake. Cops fly in and shoot him without nearly any dialogue. City pays 6m for the action.
He was shot because he was black.
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As for the jogger and 2 guys in a truck, he had been filmed illegally trespassing the uninhabited home which was being repaired a few times before, and that various tools were missing afterwards, when he did it again, I believe an alarm went off, can't remember what the tip off was, or maybe someone observed him and called the two for assistance, they went to check it out, saw him and wanted to question him, but he tried to run away. They drove past him and parked waiting for him to get there. As he approached as if he would run past them on the road, he quickly turned to the passenger side of the truck as if he would run past them on that side, where, if I remember correctly, the younger man was waiting with his rifle, and the "jogger" attacked him and tried to wrestle the gun from him. That's why he was shot.
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Wait, so he was shot *because* he was resisting someone who just chased him down and was threatening him with a rifle? This is a special kind of stupid.
He was out for a jog, he was shot because he was black.
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As far as the shooting in the back, the suspect was trying to get into his car after resisting arrest at which point, if he was allowed to enter he could come out with a gun or drive away and be a threat to the community. Not sure the cop counted how many times his gun was discharged. It was probably very quick with the intention of stopping the resister, whether it killed him or not. Again, you being a stand up really good person would have let him get into the car and see what would happen after that.
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Multiple cops on the scene can't stop a father with three kids so it's a death sentence? You don't put 7 rounds into someone to slow them down.
He was shot because he was black, and this is why they protest.