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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Most people don't need to be shot.
It's an unfortunate situation, but the police were sent to a high-risk situation where a potentially violent (based on the 911 call) man appears to approach them with a weapon. It was a dangerous situation for them. They did what they were trained to do, and before we jump on the anti-American police, most police forces in the world are trained very similar in handling assailants with a deadly weapon.
This was not the situation where the police confronted a person because he was black, they were asked to come. This isn't a situation where the man didn't pose a risk, any reasonable person would concede that a mentally unstable man with a weapon is a dangerous threat. In that regard, it's not in the same stratosphere as being choked to death for selling cigarettes, shot in the back from 50 feet away, or succumbing to mystery wounds that occurred in police custody.
Better way to handle it? Probably, but I don't blame the officers for not risking taking a screwdriver to the gut given the circumstances that did occur.
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When viewed in context of what this cop did...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOT7kdc2ZME
It looks like the guy with the screw driver should have been given a bit more of a chance. But I can't say it was as unjust as all the other murders.