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Ninga

(8,275 posts) Thu Aug 27, 2020, 12:36 PM Aug 2020

I get in peoples face who throw out Jacob Blake was reaching for a knife bull shit. [View all]

A feeble look at the frame of the video Showing the shooting
SHOWS there is enough muscle in blue uniforms close enough, in arms length, to grab him without having to shoot.
No more needs to be said.

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I get in peoples face who throw out Jacob Blake was reaching for a knife bull shit. [View all] Ninga Aug 2020 OP

Exactly. There were three cops on the scene. That's enough... brush Aug 2020 #1

Police get way too much training and practice shooting guns unblock Aug 2020 #3

I had a conversation with a ex-pat in Germany. Phoenix61 Aug 2020 #4

it's nuts how institutionally trigger-happy we allow our police to be. unblock Aug 2020 #5

"Reaching for a knife" isn't a justification to shoot to kill anyway unblock Aug 2020 #2

Do you acknowledge he was in possession of a lethal weapon? Devil Child Aug 2020 #6

For all we know it might have been a plastic eating utensil lostnfound Aug 2020 #9

I'm really interested in more info on the officer that killed Mr. Blake. Devil Child Aug 2020 #11

What kind of information? Nt lostnfound Aug 2020 #12

There is a giant gulf between necessary and justifiable, and that's the problem RockRaven Aug 2020 #7

Didn't he tell them he had one in the car? MissMillie Aug 2020 #8

At worst, could have cattle prod stun him quite easily, the blue is not our brightest, that is clear Brainfodder Aug 2020 #10