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Showing Original Post only (View all)Val Demings: officer who shot Ma'Khia Bryant 'responded as he was trained' [View all]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/25/val-demings-makhia-bryant-killingVal Demings, a Democratic congresswoman and former police chief, said on Sunday the officer who fatally shot teenager MaKhia Bryant in Ohio this week responded as he was trained to do.
On CBS, the host John Dickerson asked Demings about Reardons conduct, which would still be protected under a police reform bill, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which has passed the US House.
Everybody has the benefit of slowing the video down and seizing the perfect moment, Demings said. The officer on the street does not have that ability. He or she has to make those split-second decisions and theyre tough.
But the limited information that I know in viewing the video, it appears that the officer responded as he was trained to do with the main thought of preventing a tragedy and a loss of life of the person who was about to be assaulted.
It is important to remember that police reform will not prevent good policing decisions, but instead it will prevent the abuses. There are people out there looking to commit harm to others. We do need a civil authority to deal with such issues as they arise.
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Val Demings: officer who shot Ma'Khia Bryant 'responded as he was trained' [View all]
cinematicdiversions
Apr 2021
OP
This is not the case to die on. Just as in the Chauvin case, the video speaks for itself.
brush
Apr 2021
#17
How so? Most of the people who have seen the video are expressing similar sentiments.
Jose Garcia
Apr 2021
#21
Yes a person in the act can be stopped, tasers work and are less lethal than a gun
uponit7771
Apr 2021
#23
The officer actually drew his gun because of the attack of the girl on the ground
DontBelieveEastisEas
Apr 2021
#50
The fact that he had to put 4 bullets in the 15 yr old girl lets me know bullets aren't 100% either
uponit7771
Apr 2021
#40
+1, that changes my opinion of the scene if I could know what the officer was told. He grabbed his..
uponit7771
Apr 2021
#45
I'm very glad to see this. We could be in big trouble if the pendulum swings too far the other way.
LAS14
Apr 2021
#16