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.

  • 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