That justice will be served for George Floyd but people really need to stop paralleling the verdict with a 16 year old with a knife trying to stab another girl. It’s tragic for sure but it’s also the definition of when decisive action is needed
Edit: neg me all you want, I’d imagine the other girl and her family is happy something was done to stop her from being stabbed to death.
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Police with a shoot first mentality shouldn’t be on the force she was a little girl with a knife he could have tazed her there was no need for deadly force. There have been countless people who were armed with guns and shot and killed people but were still arrested and not murdered
candy_land and if he pulled out his taser instead and missed or was a bad stick and didn’t properly subdue her and she was able to stab? You have a split second to make a choice, there isn’t always an easy or perfect solution
I’m also curious if you’d be of the same opinion if the context was different let’s say an adult male (any race) holding a little girl at knife point. Would you advocate for less extreme measures in that scenario as well so as to think first of the life of the person with the knife as opposed to the victim at knife point?
If your first choice or instinct is to shoot and kill you shouldn’t be a cop people have the right to a trial criminal or not.
As for your scenarios if an adult was standing over a child with a knife or had their knife to someone’s throat yea I’d say that warrants deadly force but someone just swinging a knife around can be subdued without that regardless of age race or gender
candy_land you contradicted yourself in the same sentence. I’m not sure if you’ve watched the video but she was not “waving it around” she was very clearly in a lunge position with the girl pinned down. Deadly force is legally justified when it is used to protect themselves or others when there is an immediate threat of lethal force. That scenario is the definition of that statement. I’m all for us as a country tightening up the interpretation of when lethal force is warranted but not at the detriment of potential victims.
Would it have been nice if a taser would have worked in the situation? Yes. But people have this misconception about how they work, sometimes it can take multiple discharges before a person is subdued. Especially when adrenaline is clearly going. That’s why when there is a visible threat of lethal force the policy is to pull out the gun.
kwiens18 you must have watched a different videon then me because the one I watched no one was in a lunge position there were a group of kids fighting and she was standing by a car when shot. There’s no need for someone to be shot 4x for holding a knife that’s excessive force
You are clearly seeing it how you want to see it. You admitted it yourself that changing the perpetrator changes your perspective of the scenario so I guess I’ll quit wasting my time debating someone that clearly isn’t willing to look at it without a severe bias
