mb for taking my negative emotions out on you man, hope u have a good rest of your evening fr fr

I’m not really sure that a taser would’ve diffused the situation (ie. incapacitated the girl lunging at another girl with knife in hand) as quickly as it needed to be diffused.

Still a really sad situation.

If anything just give cops rubber bullets. Shooting in the leg is unrealistic tbh

While people may use the same argument for rubber bullets as taser. Nigga, its still a gun

When the f*** are cops shooting anyone over 15 feet? Only one of these jakes needs a real firearm fr

That’s what makes this seem so out of reach. We let anyone and everyone become a cop, doctors are held to the highest of standards, are put through hell, become successful because they’re committed to a good cause (money alone rarely is sustainable motivation). How do we ever get to that level for cops/law enforcement

Feels very much a Sysyphus situation that won’t be solved or corrected in our lifetime

shooting 4 times is so f***ing sick can’t afford to poorly trained cops and that’s at least 85% of them
i ain’t going to bat for this one tho

what would have a British/UK cop done? I believe most of them don't carry guns... and a lot of stabbings occur over there, so how do they diffuse a situation like this?

Thats what I always say to my bro in convos.
Cops are so poorly trained.

We literally got someone dead because a cop mistook a glock for a taser in a high stress situation.

Or the cop who shot the black guy in his own apartment. Some of these people are plain bad at the job because the threshold for being a police is low as s***.

They let all kinds of degens in

And you have millions of people who don’t even have the decency to feel...bad about the situation. Like their default reaction is to boot lick on some blue lives matter s*** and not acknowledge that we need to be better

we could take inspiration from other countries in how they set up their police (mandatory degrees, better psych eval., bias tests, etc.) also to re-allocate some of the massive bloated police budgets into helping these communities and preventing crime

Makes me so angry

I go to bed with such a negative outlook on life and where we’re headed, even on a day of “celebration”
Tomorrow is a new day. Be the best person you can be, be true to yourself, and remember to respect your own humanity and the humanity around us.

Tbh, she'd have probably gotten stabbed but UK Cops would have prob tried to tase her and if they missed, just apprehend her with batons.

But thats what I'm saying, they need to give Cops an incentivize to not use lethal force.

Guns are meant to kill and while I understand that police don't want to end up dying or some s***. The public, and especially the disenfranchised groups in America don't want to go to funerals because a Cop was too stupid to handle a situation or because their relative made one simple f*** up and got shot by a cop.

If this girl was getting bullied and felt the need to grab a knife, I don't think she should take an eternal L. That's wild to me

And then you look at Daunte Wright. That dude deadass died off a Cop being incompetent as hell. Like you only get one life bro, there aren't a bunch of reincarnated niggas just keeping a secret about their past life. Niggas are gone fr and America owes it to its citizens to minimize the loss of life we're seeing.

I’m just presenting a scenario.

But let’s say we have a crystal ball and know that if the knife made contact with pink girl, she would die. One stab, dead. I’m oversimplifying.

To prevent this death, let’s say time is not an issue. We can freeze time.

1. Cop used gun, shoots girl in black with knife

2. Cop uses taser:
A. Not sure if taser will be enough to stop the stabbing
B. Taser is enough to stop stabbing

Obviously 2B is ideal for everyone. But should officers make the assumption that the stabbing or an act of lethal aggression would in fact result in death? And if so, if they are not sure if a taser will 100% prevent the death (which is much more practical than to assume the taser would always work), should they shoot?

This is not meant to imply that the officer who shot the girl thought about any of this or had the training or knowledge to process this. Just an exercise.

Ifs also a dangerous precedent or whatever to set that a cop has to kill or act whenever they see something illegal or dangerous happening

If a cop pulls up to a bank in the midst of a robbery and the robbers have hostages guns, they shouldn’t just shoot the first people they see with guns.

So really it can be argued that the only thing a cop should have done here is fire shots into the air or try to de-escalate. Without knowledge of what is going on, they should not resort to killing someone (they didn’t just shoot, he shot 4 times - intending to kill),

Gonna be real, I think shooting an assailant is probably the most preferable option just because of how tasers work. I think if someone is attacking someone with a knife, you should assume the worse and if equipped with the means to stop an altercation, you should use the best option available to you.

Which is why I lean on the side not giving every Cop a firearm. It forces them to deescalate situations in ways they might not have considered before. Like lets face it, a firearm is optimal in most situations. So just limit the amount that police are allowed to have in a squad.

ITs like having a gun in the home. Sure, I can hang myself or slit my wrist... But why wouldn't I just shoot myself if I'm feeling suicidal?

Of course there would be Cops that are specifically licensed to carry a firearm but I doubt every Cop in a squad needs a gun

So did Ma'khia actually call police too or I guess multiple folks did? Sounds like cops were responding to an attempted stabbing call first and foremost.

Twitter SJWs defending the girl that got clapped, I see.

When an officer sees a person attempting to kill another person, they have to use deadly force to save the life of the person being assaulted.

The officer is literally watching her trying to stab the other female with a deadly weapon, saving that female's life.

I mean, why are people even mad for? People are gonna come out and protest this, but what about the life of the woman the cop saved? Does her life not matter? Ya'll lost asf

i don't get this one was the cop supposed to let the girl in pink get stabbed?

it's acab all the way but i don't think this situation is remotely similar to wright/toledo

Should’ve used non-lethal force IMO (tazer/restraint) or at least shot her in a non-lethal capacity.

It’s a tragedy.

what do you even do?? segregation? like what the f*** do you do??

Cop wouldn't have made it to her in time to prevent the stabbing.

Ohio is a stand your ground state.

She was on her property defending herself getting jumped which is her right.

There is absolutely no way that officer assessed the situation in 5 seconds where he came to a decision that someone needed to die in order to deescalate the situation. He approached the situation and his first decision was to shoot and kill.

This is a police department that has had up to 30 (reported) killings since 2015, in the last few months they’ve murdered Casey Goodson and Andre Hill in disgusting fashion. Miles Jackson also happened last week in a situation that shouldn’t have led to his death. And now, today, a 15 year old suffers the same fate. And if you try to believe they had good intentions today, they were taunting neighbors that witnessed the situation by chanting “Blue Lives Matter”.

That child did not need to die and you’re a terrible person if you try to justify this in any way.