Racism

[SasaS]

2 hours ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

I've seen a slowed down version of the video now. She's armed with a steak knife or similar, and is a split second away from stabbing another girl in the neck. I don't know how anyone could watch that and think the police officer's actions were anything other than reasonable in the circumstances.

I would say he probably didn't need to fire four times, since he really was there for a very short time and couldn't have read the situation properly to be absolutely sure about using lethal force. On the other hand, it was a split second decision.

 

But how people and media no longer care about what they see with their own eyes and simply construct their own narrative around it to fit their own agenda is astounding.

[Rico1304]

 

[Captain Turdseye]

We’ve all done it. Nowt wrong with a good old fashioned stabbing between friends. 

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

On 22/04/2021 at 16:40, Rico1304 said:

 

 

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[Bobby Hundreds]

24 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

 

Not being the smartest person around I'm still surprised at some of the dumb shit people say.

[3 Stacks]

37 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

 

Fantastic. 

[VladimirIlyich]

4 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

His sentence will be public record.

 

@VladimirIlyich so you believe he was not guilty of the charges he was convicted for?

 

 

Where did I say that? 

[TheHowieLama]

1 hour ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Where did I say that? 

Why would you have a sneaky feeling the guilty verdict wasn't based on the facts?

[Leyton388]

Used to love going to play football on the toppy, then get into a knife fight and stab away. Those were the days. 

[Captain Howdy]

2 hours ago, Rico1304 said:

 

She seems like a level headed young lady 

[Section_31]

It should be legal for teenagers to have knife fights but only as long as this music is playing, otherwise they're not covered.

 

 

[Rico1304]

This is the incident the idiot above is referring to. 
 

The number of blue ticks on Twitter jumping on the bandwagon to promote themselves is unbelievable. 

[Leyton388]

If she tired to stab the other girl its no wonder the copper shot her. If she's endangering someone's life then unlucky for her. 

[Geoff Woade]

22 minutes ago, Leyton388 said:

If she tired to stab the other girl its no wonder the copper shot her. If she's endangering someone's life then unlucky for her. 

Mad isn’t it, it’s like living in bizzaro world at times with the way people come out with their theories of what else he should have done. ‘De-escalate’ - she was mid swing, I don’t think there was much time for negotiation.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Leyton388 said:

If she tired to stab the other girl its no wonder the copper shot her. If she's endangering someone's life then unlucky for her. 

Thank fuck I don't live in that barbaric shithole of a country. 

 

There's a Far Side cartoon of someone doing an exam for their veterinary degree and the Horses paper is easiest because the answer to everything  (broken leg, hernia, toothache...) is "shoot".

 

The "black people" paper of the US Police exam must be a piece of piss.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Geoff Woade said:

Mad isn’t it, it’s like living in bizzaro world at times with the way people come out with their theories of what else he should have done. ‘De-escalate’ - she was mid swing, I don’t think there was much time for negotiation.

What do Police in the UK do?

 

What do US Police do when white kids are fighting with knives?

[VladimirIlyich]

3 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

Why would you have a sneaky feeling the guilty verdict wasn't based on the facts?

I said I had a sneaky feeling he would get a lighter/reduced sentence out of the public glare. I said absolutely nothing about him being innocent.You must realise that being a cop,a white one at that,has produced 'favourable' outcomes in similar situations in the past. 

[Geoff Woade]

5 minutes ago, PrivateParts said:

What do Police in the UK do?

 

What do US Police do when white kids are fighting with knives?

1st point I don’t know, looking at that video it would seem a standard UK police officer would be dealing with being a witness to a stabbing and then whatever action immediately followed it. (Standard) American police are authorised to use firearms though so it’s a moot point. 

 

Second point I don’t know either but I would expect that if a white person was mid swing with a knife and likely to seriously injure / kill someone the same would happen. Do you think he only shot her because she’s black? 
 

How would you have dealt with it? If you acted indecisively and she’d killed the other girl what would you be saying? 

[TheHowieLama]

53 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I said I had a sneaky feeling he would get a lighter/reduced sentence out of the public glare.

My comment was re this sneaky feeling:

 

I have a sneaky feeling the guilty verdict had to be delivered to save the city from burning to the ground.

[SasaS]

Nobody seems to care about the life of the girl that was apparently about to be stabbed.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

45 minutes ago, Geoff Woade said:

1st point I don’t know, looking at that video it would seem a standard UK police officer would be dealing with being a witness to a stabbing and then whatever action immediately followed it. (Standard) American police are authorised to use firearms though so it’s a moot point. 

 

Second point I don’t know either but I would expect that if a white person was mid swing with a knife and likely to seriously injure / kill someone the same would happen. Do you think he only shot her because she’s black? 
 

How would you have dealt with it? If you acted indecisively and she’d killed the other girl what would you be saying? 

If I were a Police officer, I probably would have acted in accordance with my training and  (for want of a better word) conditioning; as I suspect this one did.

 

The point is, there are options short of firing kill-shots which would have been effective, decisive action to end that fight.  In the UK  (or in a US white neighbourhood) we might have seen the use of a baton, or a taser or even a warning shot or a wounding shot. Nothing "bizarro world" about that.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

13 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Nobody seems to care about the life of the girl that was apparently about to be stabbed.

The word "seems" is doing the heavy lifting there.  

 

I doubt there's anybody who wouldn’t want the Police to do the whole "serve and protect" thing. It's the "shooting black people dead" thing that people get fed up with. 

[Bjornebye]

If its a split second choice between the stabber or the girl getting stabbed dying then the stabber is getting slotted. And rightly so. 

[TheHowieLama]

That is so yesterday - today's was:

 

The Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday that one of its law enforcement officers had shot and killed a man while trying to conduct a search warrant.

A release from the sheriff's office said the shooting happened in the 400 block of Perry Street in Elizabeth City around 8:30 a.m.

"During the execution of the search warrant, a citizen who was the subject of the search warrant was shot and fatally wounded," the release said.

 

Demetria Williams, who identified herself as a longtime neighbor of Brown, said he was shot while driving away. 

“He was driving away! Away! Even though they were giving him a search warrant... why did y'all let off on him like that?” 

[Bjornebye]

Target practice.