Kenosha police shoots black man multiple times in his back in front of his children, declares curfew

Being Black isn't a choice?

Spoiler

 

Serve up attitude, Protect the shield

 

These cops would have shot Gandhi 1,000 times.

 

Even putting on my rationalizing assuming-the-best hat, I cannot think of how this isn't murder. The hurricane will probably deter protests in Houston, but if we're doing one, I'm there.

 

The only reason I can think is because he is still alive. At least for now.

 

Yes that does seem very questionable about why the decision was made to go to lethal force.

 

I've trained with LE and people who went on to be LE and very much agree. I understand that getting into a physical confrontation carries it's own risk and is more risky to the safety of the LEO than tazing or shooting from a distance but this really get's back to the idea of "Serve and Protect." The job of the police is to protect the public. That even means a suspect. The idea should always be to take suspect into custody alive so they can stand trial rather than the idea that the LEO is a soldier and the suspects are the enemy to be eliminated.

 

No not if you take this issue seriously and not treat everything like a meme when the narrative doesn't suit you.

 

Being black and acting black are two different things.

 

7 shots is excessive but is the opinion of this board really that one or more shots wasn't warranted? After they tried to arrest him and even tazed him? He's reaching down into his car after cops have guns draw; what possible conclusion could the officers reach besides the fact that he was reaching for a gun? Tragic incident but this isn't George Floyd....forget what the officers COULD have done differently and look what happened in the moment they fired. You shouldn't have to risk getting shot just because you failed to tackle him beforehand

 

To equate that shooting with this one is bullshit those guys had not just put children into the car and multiple officers were surrounding those guys to stop them from getting into the car.

Shame on you.

 

So what happened to the step of subduing him?

If they tased him why were they all standing around with guns drawn and nobody tried to stop him from getting into the car.

Why did they let him put his kids into the car if they thought he had guns.

Its amazing that you think this was their only recourse the guy was even upset, why should anybody forget what the officers could have done, they could have done their job before hand and not endangered the kids in the car.

 

@rocketsjudoka

 

Sorry I missed it if already posted but why didn't they taze him?

 

This should change peoples minds about stuff

 

To respond to this and @jiggyfly . I'm not yet ready to call this murder yet because I don't know what exactly happened in the moment when Blake got to the car. If he really was reaching for a weapon and the LEO could see a weapon that would weigh heavily that the LEO did act in self-defense. I've yet to hear that Blake had a weapon or what suspicion that he might.

That doesn't mean I'm ok with this and even if it does come out that Blake was reaching for a weapon it still seems like the LE handled this situation horribly and it should've never got this far.

 

I am pretty sure if he had a weapon in the car it would be out by now.

I am not saying it was murder either but definitely a huge dereliction of duty by the cops that this escalated to that point.

I understand how it could be perceived as threatening to go to the car but they could have stopped him and they knew he had kids in the car.

 

Let's see: Philando Castile cooperated with the police and where did that get him? The reality is that it doesn't matter what you do - cooperate, resist or lie down on the ground with your hands in the air - if you are a black male in the US today there is a target on you and you will be shot and/or killed. And whatever you do DON'T:

Play in the park with a toy gun
Run when you see the police
Walk away from police
Get caught watching a football game in your own apartment when a police office bursts in by mistake

 

Not mine. I don't get what that means? Black people should stop getting shot so cities don't burn?