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RockRaven

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7. There is a giant gulf between necessary and justifiable, and that's the problem

Reply to Ninga (Original post)

Thu Aug 27, 2020, 01:09 PM

Aug 2020

That is one of the biggest differences in how cops treat white versus non-white people. They shoot white people when they must. They shoot non-white people when they can. [and of course that is a generalization]

That gap between must and can has thousands of dead Americans in it. We have to close it, completely.

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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