Ok sure , I’ll concede a knife was present ...the question is: is being shot in the back 7 times a result of poor policing ...I say yes
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Agreed, but again. Why are you so certain the man had a knife in his hand? I have not seen anything supporting that. And if he did, why have we not seen it in evidence? It must have been collected no?
Because I see him holding something, I can hear the officers telling him to drop something while raising their weapons, and a knife *was* recovered from the floor of the car. I'm not "certain" he had a knife, but it's difficult to explain the video otherwise.
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I assume we'll have a clearer view of the events once the investigation is completed, but I don't see any point in trying to pretend that it looks like something other than what it actually looks like.
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I’ve seen and heard the video. Neither are conclusive, but Blake did manage to get the officer in a headlock. That is in part because the officers are poorly trained in subduing suspects peacefully and rely too heavily on pulling guns.
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I'm all for more training for the full range of force. Two trained men should be able to subdue an unarmed man nearly all of the time. But if a knife was pulled at some point in that struggle, this is a very different scenario, and getting some distance was the right move
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