Some people need to read up about the 21 ft rule. I mean really this dude was wielding a knife. At the time of being shot he was maybe what 10ft away. Do you realize that is well within lethal range for a knife.
They are trained to eliminate the threat. They called out warnings. He moved in on them and backed away a bit. Pulled his hand out of the pocket wielding a knife and well within the 21ft moved aggressively towards the officers. That's textbook what they should do.
This whole shoot em in the leg or shoot out their tires is garbage. This isn't the movies.
It's tragic that 2 young men died. Deserving or not. But people act like cops kill young black males at crazy rates.
There is some like 12 million people arrested a year less than 400 result in cops killing someone. That's like .000003%. Cops shooting and killing people is a complete statistical a anomoly.
Over 90% of the young black men in this country are killed by other black man.
If you wanna talk about racial profiling or arrest rates or possession charges cool. Those are tangible numbers. But all this nonsense about cops having hardons for killing black men is about as credible as republicans and voter id laws to prevent fraud, or gun control for mass shootings.
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