Yeah… Running away and not following an order is a capital offence, warrants attempt at summary execution by 7 shots in the back. Meanwhile, gang member who kills two people isn’t even pursued and gets taken into custody the next day. Oh right. One was black (or three if you count the two victims of the gang member). And the gang member who murdered two people was a white Trump racist.
Law and Order. Just…
Separate but… Equal?
"Instead of working with Congress to craft comprehensive legislation to address the ongoing crisis and deliver desperately-needed aid, President Trump looted FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund to the tune of $44 billion — authorizing the agency to pay for a $300 per week supplement to regular unemployment benefits.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-looted-44-billion-fema-025603077.html
Typical. Cut off the “successfully resisting and trying to drive off with a knife in a car full of kids” part. Cops shoot lots of innocent people who “just went to the bank to get some cash” too, if you omit the part about them forcibly taking it at gun point.
Make up whatever story you want. But he very obviously was not “shot in the back while running away.” And it was anything but a “summary execution”. I’m surprised he was shot, but only because it was an active struggle with not much room for a clear shot.
Yeah, I mean when you try to arrest a guy and he won’t cooperate, you try a taser and it doesn’t work, you should definitely let him go get his knife to stab you in close quarters because that’s what he was trying to do. Here’s the DOJ statement, entirely consistent with the video evidence including showing the struggle before Blake broke free from the cops and went to get the knife from his car.
https://www.doj.state.wi.us/news-releases/update-kenosha-officer-involved-shooting-0
The other guy was being chased down by a mob screaming “get him” when he fell and some peacefully armed protestors jumped him and tried to take away his gun. He should have definitely done nothing and later gotten a peaceful kick to the head like the last white guy we saw nearly killed after he surrendered to the mob? Well this guy did a couple things right, including defending himself successfully, and after that surrendering to the cops with his hands up instead of fighting with them, ignoring their orders, and going for a weapon. I see the WI DA is playing the same politically motivated prosecution game by charging him with murder one like the DA did to that cop in Atlanta.
I’m not saying it’s good the first guy to get shot, but honestly, if the cops are arresting you and you fight them and go for a weapon, don’t be surprised if you get shot. Seems like a clear case of “play stupid games, win stupid prizes”.
Yes, practically the entire country is crying for renewed unemployment benefits. Nothing happens in Congress. So Trump tries to make it happen anyways, within what little authority he has to do so, and now it’s outrageous and so so so terrible for him to have done.
Of course it is.
But being shot in the back seven times is more than just a stupid prize. There’s not really much room to spin the facts as not an excessive use of force.
Trying to get into one’s own car is not equivalent to a white nationalist gang member with a semiautomatic firearm threatening a crowd and then murdering two people. Which somehow does not warrant an arrest at the scene. The “bad lip reading” contrived twilight zone justification circulating through Russian bots on Facebook and Faux News doesn’t pass the sniff test.
The armed terrorists organizing online and crossing state lines to commit the murders also automatically makes it a federal matter failure. Locals assembling (or even committing crimes) are not, except if local government has asked for assistance.
It takes an awful lot of spin to reduce it to “shot in the back while getting into your own car”. A ridiculous amount of spin. Cops shot a black man, now lets see what we need to claim to make it outrageous this time.
here’s a very detailed list of his movements and actions that night, with accompanying videos.
https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1298839097923063809
I know, I know, actual situation doesn’t matter - just the narrative “we’re gonna riot and burn Trump back into the second term he couldn’t have won on his own”.
You lefties just can’t be reasonable. The police were responding to a 911 call regarding terror in the home. Police surrounding a man with guns drawn, tried a taser, man has weapons on body or in car. After struggle, what to do.
My question of you defenders of the man that was shot. Always blame the police first. That’s a great reaction we see from you folks at every “peaceful protest” or any other action headed by BLM.
WHATS WRONG WITH YOU?
The article you link details the situation.
Not sure what alternate reading you’re doing.
A vigilante. OK to be out past curfew and heavily armed. Because – well just obviously because! He said he’s doing good so it’s A-OK! He’s white and has a gun so you can believe him when he claims he’s protecting other people’s property. Laws only apply to black people!
I’m trying to figure out where that article is supposedly justifying the vigilante. Racial double standards being applied by the local police choosing to allow him to create conditions for his violent behavior are not a justification.
Not at all. Police are important. They’ve also been stretched unreasonably thin by a lack of willingness to provide resources and funding during the current crises. Bailouts for business, no funding support for local police. That’s the McConnell and Trump way.
But the success and effectiveness depends on the public trust. The minority who either are incapable of doing their job effectively (it’s not necessarily malicious excessive use of force, could be ineffective training) or who are dismissed as “a few bad apples” make all police less effective at serving the public. As well as making the job and the public both less safe.
Accountability is important, not just blind reverence.
As a white dude, I have no doubt I would not have been shot in that situation. Simply because I’d have already been twitching on the ground after being tasered. And even if I was able to push through that, the cops would’ve bodyslammed me to the ground long before considering pulling the trigger.
You do what that guy did, and you’re going to get shot no matter what race you are.
Their effectiveness depends entirely on people respecting their authority. When you intentionally leave them with no option but to shoot or just walk away, you have no one to blame but yourself.
Yes, we’re all happy to see all the protesting demanding that this white kid be set free.
Has anyone said this? Has anyone remotely implied this? Was he not arrested? Had the cops tried to arrest and he instead decided to resist and just keep doing what he wanted, would you now be rioting on his behalf when he ended up getting shot too?
This is what it has come down to, and your own posts have only reinforced this perception - if you are black, you are innocent and didnt deserve whatever happened no matter what you were doing. And if you’re white, your racist behavior is being condoned by society no matter how hard the book is being thrown at you.
The article xerty linked explicitly said the local police were earlier enabling him and thanking him.
How is that not “condoning?”
And how many people had he shot at that point?
The whole point is to not create the unnecessary violent situations in the first place…
You seem to be saying it’s fine for a heavily armed 17year old vigilante being allowed and encouraged to break the law and create dangerous situations, all the way up until he has already killed people.
This appears to be an absurd position.
At that point, police should have thanked him for the support but told him to leave the area. IMO anything else is just an excuse to turn a conveniently blind eye towards a very likely dangerous and escalating situation. How is letting heavily armed people into protest areas not going to escalate the situation? What if the kid had been a BLM supporter? Would they have let him in with his weapon out?
If you’re white and not officially deputized, you drive 30 miles from home to go into a BLM protest with heavy weaponry after curfew, you’re asking for it IMO.
Oh, I agree. It’s the behaviors that cause the incidents, not the race. Unless it involves certain races - then it’s obviously race-driven regardless of the behavior.
That guy may have been asking for it just by being there, but he hadnt done anything illegal either. The guy that was shot (Edit to clarify: Blake) was somewhere he was not legally permitted to be, resisted being arrested, fought through being tasered, ignored lawful orders, physically scuffled with multiple cops, and either tried to (did?) grab a knife or simply flee in a car, before finally being shot.
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It wasn’t legal for the gang member with the firearm to be there either. He was violating curfew.
Edit: or you’re not referring to the protestors, so presumably they weren’t doing anything illegal either by violating curfew?
I think you’re referring to Blake. Which it’s unclear if he could be where he was either. Current story is there was a call from a non-cooperative woman (the dispatch officer’s description of why no details) claiming he wasn’t supposed to be there. They have not said whether he in fact was not supposed to be there.
They also currently don’t say anything about going for the knife. They only say that he was unarmed and that there was a knife of some sort (pocket knife? Machete? Guess it doesn’t matter?) somewhere inside the vehicle. That he identified to the officer when he was asked if there was a weapon in the vehicle. Unclear if this was asked before or after the seven shots in the back.