Dude was walking up to police with his hand out. They keep killing my people. It's so exhausting.

Edit: He might have a knife. I'm not sure if he does or if police are being scummy police.

Edit: Witnesses said he had a knife so that might just be true.

  • ComradeKingfisher [he/him]
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    4 years ago
    • Have access to pepper spray

    • Have access to tasers

    • Have access to batons

    • Have the advantage of multiple officers to restrain one person

    • Still resort to lethal methods to deal with one person with a knife

    On top of being murderous, cowardly little shits, they're fucking incompetent as well. Fucking pathetic, poorly trained, trigger happy brainlets with a free license to murder whom they please. Death to Amerikkka and all its piggies. :acab:

    • anthropicprincipal [any]
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      4 years ago

      The UK deals with 1000's of knife incidents like this a year and they might kill 2-3 people.

      Something is fucked in the US's police training.

  • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    you can see something in his right hand at the beginning of the vid, which the woman behind him is trying to take away... but it doesnt really look much like a knife, so idk wtf it is

    either way, having a weapon does not give cops the right to murder someone. especially not a "knife"

    stab vests are a thing, tasers are a thing, but beyond all that, deescalation is a thing.

    ACAB

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Those cops knew that if they deescalated, they might get fired for it. ACAB.

      • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        yeah but they didnt even need to deescalate to not kill somebody.

        like, ive disarmed someone with a knife before. no one got shot or stabbed. just another tuesday in the kitchen and kyle had to be fired.

        shits unacceptable

    • VernetheJules [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      The woman at the beginning of the clip is all the proof you need this could have been deescalated. She literally went up to him and tried to grab the knife or whatever.

      If she pulled a gun on him, had him in his sights, and had a systemic reputation of shooting first and asking questions later, something tells me she wouldn't have been able to do approach him so easily. 🤔🤔🤔🤔

      • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        cops watching a woman try and fail to disarm a man for at least a full minute with no danger or threat to her person: this man must be shot at least a dozen times!

    • seksmisja [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      stab vests are a thing, tasers are a thing,but beyond all that, deescalation is a thing.

      While I agree with most of what you said, if someone is coming at me with a knife and I have a gun, I am shooting them. For one, a stab vest is gonna do jackshit when I stab you in the neck and tasers fail a good amount of times since they depend on prodes actually hitting your skin and both have to hit. When in close combat, you are better off just hitting someone on the head with the taser then actually firing.

      Maybe it's because of where I grew up and I have seen my fair share of stabbings, having hands cut off and getting gutted, but if you within 3 meters of me with a knife, I ain't gonna be deescalating you and playing nice with you, it's life or death and I ain't taking my chances

  • Papanurgel [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Cops are just trained to shoot. I mean we all just saw that video of that dude throwing burning trash into the cop car on top of the cop and the pigs first reaction was to blindly shoot at the guy.

  • 777 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    they murdered him like 3 blocks away from where the MOVE Bombing happened. i can't get over that. policing in this country has so thoroughly fucked up communities for generations.

    • 777 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      the MOVE Bombing was older than he was. his mom probably was old enough to see that on TV if not up close in person and then fastforward to today, in the same neighborhood, and the cops kill your son in front of you. what an evil fucking country. the gravity of how fucking evil it is, how completely and abjectly anti-black this country is, from a pure ontological standpoint is too much to bear sometimes. i don't know what else to say. please be safe out there.

    • boredymcbored [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      That's even more fucked up. Damn. I hate this. Being black in America is the most exhausting thing (well, being indigenous is worse but damn it ain't easy).

  • RedArmor [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Fuck pigs god damnit. Seriously burn every law enforcement building to the ground

  • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    A better way to deal with potential knife wielders: https://youtu.be/ZEYbF7XCzAs

  • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    This is what cops are trained to do. Here's a video showing exactly what a cop should do in this situation. The pig killed him because he was trained to do so.

    • ImaProfessional1 [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      The fucked up thing about that video is that if you’re already indoctrinated with the Bacon Spirit™, this makes perfect sense. Like, I found myself kinda nodding and agreeing as they showed the multiple outcomes with the distance, etc. The one illustrated in the film and by that fucking pig really are the best ways to “defend yourself”. If you’re goal is to murder effectively and efficiently, that guy nailed it.