I don't EVER want to hear anyone again say, "If he'd just obeyed orders, he wouldn't have been shot"

[StarfishSaver]

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[dawg day]

1. My god. That's appalling.

We can keep going on--
Philando Castille was shot only because he told an officer (correctly) that there was a gun-- legal, licensed-- in the car.

Tamir Rice- 12 years old- was killed because he was playing in a park with a toy gun.

Michael Brown was shot because he jaywalked.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. A pernicious lie. K&R.

[angstlessk]

3. Well it WAS a female cop, maybe she was black?

BUT she was a female and maybe blue MEN police lives matter?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. Breonna Taylor was asleep in her own apartment.

[tulipsandroses]

5. I can do you one better - The amount of begging these cops are doing - Keith Sweat level

[wnylib]

6. A black driver would have been

shot before the existence of the gun was even known. Just for disagreeing with the cop.

[tulipsandroses]

12. I don't know if I should be angry, sad or just laugh at this video. I did laugh at how hapless these

cops seemed to be. Gotta say dude was totally in control of the situation. He TOLD them what he was going to do. No I'm not putting my hands on the steering wheel and you are not acting civilly. AND I am going to drive away. Not one shot fired. Even though I had my hand on my gun and threatened to shoot you, said it more than once. Nah, I'm not a threat. Its not like I'm a black guy and you THOUGHT I had a gun. OR I was running away with my back turned, Then I'd be a REAL threat. That's how it works. See. These guys get it.

[dalton99a]

11. +1

[wnylib]

7. "If he'd just obeyed orders"

is a racist statement. There is not a single American who does not know that cops shoot Blacks and other minorities without cause OFTEN.

[davekriss]

8. Whaa?

Unbelievable. Well, actually, very believable in current times.

[dustyscamp]

9. Daniel Shaver obeyed police orders, but was still shot to death

RIP all Police victims!

[Hekate]

10. KnR

[uponit7771]

13. Makes me fuckin sick

[ancianita]

14. A militarized racist police state will kill Black folk for just living.

Demilitarize police. No qualified immunity.
If their unions don't like that, they can go join fascist corporate militaries whose interests they really serve anyway.

[joshcryer]

15. Officer, I didn't know I couldn't do that.

[Solly Mack]

16. K&R

[BobTheSubgenius]

17. Based on past history, the inescapable truth is that there is NO strategy or behaviour...

...that will guarantee that a POC will survive contact with the police.

[Blue Owl]

18. K&R for visibility