DOJ identifies officer who shot Jacob Blake as Rusten Sheskey; says Blake had knife

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10. A knife if a common Cop rationale to shoot people dead.

the Charleena Lyles shooting in Seattle, about a quarter mile from my house, was one. An unstable African American woman in her apartment, with her children there, 2 cops shot her point blank because she wouldn't drop the knife. she weighed about 110. their taser and clubs? left in the car.

Another is the infamous "woodcarver" shooting in Seattle in 2010. John T. Williams was a native American who sold wood carvings on the street. he was stumbling/shuffling across a downtown street, cop asks him what's in his hand. It's his carving knife, he shows it to the cop, the cop shoots him dead.

They COULD be Ninjas, and they can't take that risk. It's a deadly weapon; they consider it an equivalent threat to a gun.