Derec
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You still have to drop it if police orders you to.
He was a felon, so he was not allowed to have one in the first place.
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The shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, and aftermath
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If you disobey orders to drop the weapon, then getting shot by the police is a risk you take. Seriously, is common sense dead?
I've been convinced by copious evidence that the police are not clear or effective when they scream at people to do stuff. Especially when the people are surprised by the appearance of the police.
Oh! right! Right. The police knew this when they shot him. Forgot.
I haven't seen anything about how this happened. I have seen previous ones, though, where the orders of the police are confusing, conflicting and unintelligible. I'm sure you've seen that too.
Remember that one cop who shot the guy then dropped a gun next to him? He said a thing that turned out to be completely false, too. Then the video showed the cop to be a vile liar. So, hard to assume that their directions were clear, intelligible, unconflicting and appropriate - and true to the actual events - without some evidence. I could be wrong. I just have no reason to lean one way or the other yet.
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He wasn't a felon. Your own post said only misdemeanor conviction.
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Not to mention times when the suspect is given about 0.02 seconds to comply
Derec
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He managed to get one felony plead down to a misdemeanor, but he wasn't as lucky in 2005.
Keith Lamont Scott: What we know about man shot by Charlotte police
8 years in prison for shooting somebody. I guess the original article may not have had it because it was out of state.
Right! Right. And the cops knew that when they shot him.
See, this "shoot them first and justify it later" plan is BULLSHIT.
It's bullshit.
If the cops didn't know it RIGHT THEN, then it isn't valid as their reason for deciding to shoot him dead.
Only a psychopath would think it was okay to shoot people without knowing whether there's a good reason, and then claim it was okay to do it based on something they learned later.
Bullshit.
It's bullshit.
If the cops didn't know it RIGHT THEN, then it isn't valid as their reason for deciding to shoot him dead.
Only a psychopath would think it was okay to shoot people without knowing whether there's a good reason, and then claim it was okay to do it based on something they learned later.
Bullshit.
If a rioter gets hurt, too bad. They chose to riot, sometimes you get hurt in a riot.
How about we hold the BLM leaders accountable for the damage their lies have been causing?
So long as you object to all police shootings you aren't going to accomplish anything but stir up racial hatred.
You don't open-carry a gun in hand when facing the police whether you are white, black or polka-dotted.
Remember that video from a while back purporting to show the different reaction from the police when faced with a white or black person doing open carry? The people who made that video clearly knew there wasn't a problem and so they staged it--they had their actors carry the guns differently.
His rap sheet included a felony. Therefore it's not legal for him to have a gun.
Besides, open carry doesn't mean you have a gun in hand in front of the police!
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You don't need to understand the police to understand that you need to get that gun out of your hand pronto!
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Sometimes peaceful protestors are caught in the middle of riots.
no. Is yours?
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And police have some kind of Robocop mind that tells them a man's criminal history without seeing his ID?
What I always find rather telling about these cases is how - according to the boot-lickers - the police are so omniscient they know every detail a someone's criminal history just by looking at them, but simultaneously so deaf, blind and stupid they can't tell if a person is armed or not, retreating or not, holding his hands up or not...
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Black men always abandon their offspring according to alt-right scholars.
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Remember that time a black kid in an open carry case had a toy gun in his belt and two police officers gunned him to death even though he had nothing in his hand? If you don't, the victim's name was Tamir Rice.