So agree

What sticks in my mind is this: It pertains to that kid who shot and killed two people.

The photos show that, after the killing, he walked towards the cops by approaching them with his hands raised and his assault weapon swinging from his belt. The cops did not detain him, they did not question him, they did nothing but pass him by.

Has it crossed anyone's mind what the cops would have done, had the kid been a black kid in the same situation?

Possibly nothing as here: Black people march with guns at Stone Mountain, Georgia, with greetings of Black Love & Black Power - YouTube

Actually from videos and photos I have seen many of the rioters and looters, both black and white, are armed and the police are just standing by allowing it all to happen, no doubt under orders to do so.

I often wonder about posts like this.....

Do you search out videos to make others look bad, as with the phone videos surfaced by our government showing fire and brimstone in the USA, when in fact it is in SPAIN.

Is this type of thing a hobby or some sort ?

The video is about 6 weeks old and means nothing at all

Chaos

I could give an answer to that 2 blades question. IF(?), big (IF) (because I could NOT see one, but I will look harder next time it is run on TV) - - - So, assuming a knife in his LEFT hand as he walked slowly around the front of the car, then we see the grabbing of his shirt as he leans forward into the vicinity of his steering wheel, - then, he is shot in the lower back SEVEN times, - then the shock of being shot and his momentum forward would cause him to drop that knife - that ONE knife. So that answers the ONE knife question, not 2 knives..........But, several questions remain. Could or SHOULD (?) he have been shot in the leg or arm? Should he have been kicked in the back of the leg when he was in front of the car? Or shot in the leg at THAT point. After all they ONLY wanted him to STOP walking away S L O W L Y from the POLICE. HOPEFULLY, they were not thinking then at that point that he NEEDED to DIE for just not stopping. So. that would have been a GOOD time to shoot him in the LEG if that felt they HAD to shoot him. What was in their mind at that point we can never know. Most posts here are convinced that the Police side was justified. But, I am suspicious about something not QUITE making sense in the video of this shooting. I wish the Police had the SOUND part of there cameras turned on. Why was it not? That could have made me understand the situation more. I hope that an investigation or a jury trial would straighten that out. But, I fear that the rush to condemn him will WIN the day?????

Scrape wounds would not be sufficient for surgery and a Doctor saying it is UNLIKELY that he ever walks again. That is at least 1 shot to the spine.

shoot in the leg ?
 

I can only assume you have no experience with violent confrontations, perhaps movies and TV representations that are just fantasies, If a police officer has reason to use deadly force that is what is called for ,,right now

That was a thoughtful post. Someday, maybe (?) in 15 years, we will have A.I. Robotic police for the beat and human inspectors / investigators. The robots will have NO fear of being themselves harmed so should be able to make good logical decisions in each criminal incident. Until then we are only left with failable humans. What we are working on now is trying to eliminate any systemic biases (as much as possible). That is the problem that we and the media and judges are trying to work out. I believe that because of so many people having cell phone cameras and sound that the problem has become PUSHED to the front of people's consciousness. So, society is grappling with it more today.

"caring less and less" and NOT paying attention to current events and social trends can / might (?) lead to something no one wants - a fascist Police state. But, hopefully, NOT ?

The same exact thing, let him walk on by.

That seems like the "quick and dirty, " black and white" answer that is parroted out by Police apologists to shout / proclaim Police innocence. There are GOOD Police and BAD Police and some in-between Police. Obvious situations and nuanced situations. There HAS to be SOME situations by LOGIC alone that are in-between situations and where creative solutions can occur in EVEN in the heat of a quickly developing situation.

I stated in my post NOT just what to do "shoot in the leg" but when to do it "as he was in front of the car". My LYING EYES showed that to me. maybe not for yourself. Regardless, I stand by my opinion and post.

Plus the bulk of my post talked about why there was, probably, one knife, not two.

You really have no clue about neutralizing threats in a fluid situation. It appears now the police in the George Floyd incident will be completely exonerated and perhaps sue the Floyd clan of miscreants. The police in the Blake shooting will also be exonerated.

You have read a few thing into my post that are not there , I made a general statement, quick and dirty? in regards to what? "creative solutions" "shoot in leg" and you think you know when to shoot a person? and I stand by my post , everyone is of course entitled to their opinion, the worth of that opinion depends on knowledge and experience

If the dummy had just done what he was told. This isn't a black or white problem. Just a dummy that has no respect for anything.

OR~!~...he may have been reaching for a weapon, then use that weapon to take one or all of the kids in the back seat as hostages. all the kids & perp may have been killed in such an escalation, and i can only imagine what the headlines would've said if that happened. 'inept police allow kids to be killed.' damned if you do, damned if you don't. blake was a bad man. period.

And, organizations that continue to solicit (extort) donations from major corporations, local businesses and property owners.

Correct. But where are the other three wounds and where the the other three shots go.

There are a lot of reasons why there were three shots. Some of you are passing judgement without having all of the information.

That’s what’s really bothers me, the ingratitude of major corporations towards the police. Corporations can no longer be counted on to be pro American. As Marx wrote capitalist greed will be the engine of their own demise.

First of all, in defense of the police, what is wrong with these suspects who don't cooperate with the police? If you're stopped or caught by the police, deal with it. You have no chance otherwise. In defense of the suspect, why shoot him? Why kill him? Why not taser him? Or, in the case of Jacob Blake who was trying to get into his car, why not shoot out his tires? If there is more than one policeman, why can't they grab him and handcuff him? He ( Blake) was stronger than a cop? Than two cops? Although I may be missing something, it seems to me that the cops were just enraged that this guy was fighting them---and they shot him out of anger not as a last means of capturing him. I would love to hear if a policeman agrees with anything I've said.

A lot of WHY'S in that paragraph. Probably the most important why is why do people disobey and ignore police commands. I've never been a cop, but I will never second guess a person who has a split second to make a decision on whether or not you're about to be killed by a criminal who is resisting arrest and going into his car for something. Wake up people! It's the cops that are being killed for NO reason.

Blake resisted, had an officer in a choke hold, escaped after being tasered to run around his car to reach in the driver’s side for something. After all this resistance you have 1.5 seconds to determine if it’s ........................; sorry too late, it was a gun. You are dead. If that had happened it would have been just another officer murdered with minimal press coverage and certainly no looting and burning prior to, and after the murderers trial.

The facts are; one after another people with records of law breaking ignore law enforcement's command of STOP. Then they are shot. The police do this for a number of reasons. It depends whether you have always respected authority or not, how you "feel" about this.

Have you counseled your children to be respectful to you, to their teachers and principal, to their boss, to their church tenets, to commonly held authority? We have.

You make some good points. I’ve said this before. Social Media and 24 hour Cable Media is much different than the mainstream press IMHO. A free press is absolutely necessary for a free Country. Let me be clear all media is protected by the First Amendment. Just because we may disagree doesn’t mean we don’t have a right to our opinion and it’s not necessarily fake news it’s just your opinion. Some are demonizing the media. Careful what you wish for. You wouldn’t have the same rights in Russia or China or many other places.

So the first thing that we know is wrong is that he wasn't shot in the back seven times. What w know is that seven shots were fired, four hit him and one hit him in the spine.

The fact that he was fighting with police was probably what caused three shots to mis him and three others to not have the effect of stopping him.

The Rittenhouse case is a separate incident.

Boy, have you nailed it.

There may be some, but most third world countries or those who were overthrown began with attacking the press.

You must stop the citizenry from knowing the truth is the precursor to...well, up to us I guess.

and we know he was armed
 

looks like a curved blade

We only saw about a 45 second video missing the incident on the other side of SUV. Viewed were 3 police following suspect guns drawn to drivers side of SUV. These 3 officers lost control of situation lost their cool acted on fear. The Police did not have body camera’s issued the them.

Your making stuff up about holding a knife! That was not a part of police report you made it up to fit your narrative

It could have ended like this;


video of officer being shot who was wearing a body camera - Bing video

Another one; video of officer being shot who was wearing a body camera - Bing video

If it is a curved blade, US Special Forces could tell you with a stab and one cut, a person will bleed out in a matter of minutes.

It looked like a fighting knife made by Karambit to me. Best Karambit Knives - Top 7 Karambits | Blade HQ

Some are demonizing the police and support defunding them. Careful what you wish for.

Still trying to figure out why anybody would need to shoot another person 7 times IN THE BACK and then find a knife in the car. Please stop supporting this type of behavior. Our police need to be trained better. This is inexcusable.

I heard, but have not seen.

Thanks for posting.

Officers are NOT taught to shoot in the leg or arm. That could be potentially dangerous to bystanders and also easy to miss the small moving target. Officers are taught "center mass" meaning vital organs of the body, and also the largest portion and easiest to hit.

I am all for more and better training of the police. Perhaps if this officer was a better shot he would have killed the suspect with one shot. More funding is important instead of DEFUNDING. Seriously though, a moving target and pumping adrenaline makes even the best shooter hard put to hit where they want the bullet to go.

Hallelujah! Chalk up a couple more for the good guys.

You've never tried to subdue and individual that doesn't want to be subdued. Why don't you do some research, he was shot with a taser twice. Shoot out the tires and let him drive away with children in the vehicle, brilliant!:ohdear:

But when the press has already been coopted to support only one narrative, then what?