Believe it or not, Derec, I have an extremely full life outside this forum and it gives me no pleasure to watch multiple videos of people being murdered.
Then you should have no issue with the video, as Lyoya wasn't murdered.
But I get your point - you do not like to watch video where people get killed. Fair enough. But then please do not pontificate about whether it is murder or that you think that the officer lied about the perp going for his taser or any other details you do not know but could have easily found out simply by watching.
Call me crazy but it just not seem to give me the same kind of thrill it gives you.
No thrill. But I do like to be informed.
Im not watching another video of another police officer killing another person. The video I saw earlier looked to me as though he was grabbing fir a weapon he feared being used on him. You know: defending himself.
But he was in the process of being legally detained. He has no right to defend himself against that.
And if he wasn't "defending himself" as you call it he'd still be alive. In jail, where he belonged, but alive.
Moral of the story: do not fight with police, and don't "defend" yourself by going for the police officer's weapons.
I realize that for many people, ordinary citizens do not have a right to defend themselves from attacks by police even if the police mistakenly break into their home in the middle of the night and are assumed to be home invaders—which they actually are.
People are actually given a lot of leeway when police serve warrants in their homes based on the assumption that they might have mistaken police for a home invader. Especially at night. Breonna Taylor's boyfriend's charges were dropped. Andrew Coffee IV, as
big a scumbag as he is, was nevertheless
acquitted of the murder charge when he shot at police and police returned fire, killing his girlfriend.
This case wasn't anything like that. This was in the middle of the day. It wasn't in his house, but it was a traffic stop, because the car Lyoya was driving had plates belonging to another vehicle. He was also driving with a revoked license and had two warrants out for his arrest, one for domestic violence for allegedly beating up his baby mama (funny how feminists like you choose to ignore info like that).
So he decided to run, and when that failed, fight with the officer in order to avoid going to jail. How far would he go to avoid being arrested? We do not know, and the officer is not required to find out.
As for informing myself, maybe you should inform yourself about the well documented history of racism in Grand Rapids MI.
From what I have seen it's mostly disparate impact nonsense. I.e. blacks are more likely to be stopped. But even if there was significant racism in Grand Rapids police department (a big if, as I have seen no actual evidence of it), that is completely irrelevant to what happened here. If I drive with mismatched plates, I will be stopped too. If I have warrants for my arrest, I will be arrested. If I decide to fight with the officer and grab his taser, I will probably get shot too. Where is the racism here?
Y’all southern white boys don’t got no monopoly on racism.
I know that already. The biggest racist in the case is a Northern black boy from Brooklyn.