I am sick of seeing cops shoot EVERYONE...white, black, brown, you name it!
The big difference is I understand WHY some of these people get shot. I explained why Blake got shot (btw, he already admitted he had a knife).
Indeed, even to this point, I have not expounded on my feelings as to whether it was a legal shoot or not.
It would be great if the Police in the US didn’t have to be on high alert to knives, guns or even fighting with people they want to talk to or even arrest, wouldn’t it?
One of the funny things I hear is “Why not wrestle, like UK cops sometimes have to?“ The simple reason is, if you don’t win your wrestling match, there’s a good chance you’ll get shot with your own weapon! When you are carrying a gun, “fisticuffs” isn’t an option, especially one on one. If you ever see a US cop wrestling with someone, it is nearly always because A) he got jumped and has had to react, or B) there is at least one other cop present, often with gun drawn in case there is a need to avoid a weapon being taken. Cops are taught to protect your weapon at all times, because the life you’re saving us your own!
Brits appear incapable of understanding life in America, esp life in the trenches of the urban wastelands.
By now, you’ve all seen a (white) 17 yr old walking down the road, hands up, walk-jogging towards a phalanx of police vehicles with an AR-15 over his shoulder...and not being pinned on the ground and arrested...with mouths agape. You know he just killed 2 people, but the police don’t, and seeing people exercising “open carry” Isn’t an every day occurrence in most places, but isn’t illegal, either!
I know...sounds crazy, and I agree with you...but this is the law and ONE PARTY protects such laws because it feeds their base! I AM NOT THEIR BASE!
Crime is a problem. I’m on record here abhorring violent crime and have no problem with harsh penalties for violent crimes, esp those committed while brandishing a deadly weapon, even if not used or even loaded.
The problem, in 99%+ of cases, is not the “fucking pigs.” When it is, I have ZERO ISSUES with them feeling the full weight of the law coming down on them, and it’d be fine by me if George Floyd’s killer is found guilty of second/third degree murder, because I think he is guilty of it. The Blake case is NOT the Floyd case!
