By his own admission, he was armed with a knife. He struggled with a police officer while holding that same knife, and refused orders to drop the knife even while being held at gunpoint. 2/
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But it doesn't even stop there. Police were summoned into contact with Blake by an ex who had an order of protection against him due to a sexual assault and had reported to police that he was back (obviously in violation of that order) and had stolen her rental car & keys. 3/
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So at the time he was shot, after multiple attempts to get him to drop the knife, he was moving toward a car that had small children inside (who were, as far as the police officer knew, not his) with a knife in his hand. 4/
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The recitation of facts, now that we know them all, reads like a list of things you would do if you literally wanted cops to shoot you. I don't really know what else to say at this point. And I say this with someone with a lengthy track record of questioning use of force by cops
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Jacob Blake is lucky to be alive today. He should not be held up as someone on whom police used excessive force. Fin.
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I've seen enough of these stories to not even take "shot in the back" seriously. This isn't some movie version of the wild west. Activists use that phrase to cover up damning details.
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Yet all these news stories call him "unarmed" and even "fact checked" claims that he was. Suppression of truth
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I thought I read once that police are taught to unload all their bullets until the threat has receded. I might be completely wrong about this.
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