Jesus people, the guy was screaming shoot me while running toward police with a knife. Common sense says, don't do that.
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Good question. Fear for their lives is the excuse used for killing blacks. Take that uniform off - the job is inherently life threatening.
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Or when you're holding a knife and walking towards police, you stop after they give numerous commands to do so.
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Scout was wrong but a taser would have dropped him to the ground.There was time to evaluate the situation. Should have made a better choice.
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Because he refused to put his knife down and walking towards police.
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"their" family, please, not "his".
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*happily blocks the bigots* I ran out of fucks to give back in 2000.
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Because he charged them with a deadly weapon....
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Probably because he was high as hell and charging the cop with a knife. Cops don't like that...
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That's outrageous! They could have subdued him with nothing, he was small, but even a stun gun would be better than killing the young man.
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because he had a knife, refused to drop it, and walked toward the cops. didn't they watch the video?
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I'm seriously shocked there are people defending the abuse of authority displayed here. Deadly force against a clearly harmless person, fear
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Person with a knife is not harmless.....
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I personally don't know what to think anymore. I don't even know who's a man or a woman or what's going on
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