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Originally Posted by metallicat
Sorry, but if this happens:
you're getting shot. Period. You can have less lethal like a taser on scene but if someone is threatening police with a knife and they're in range to strike that is a lethal encounter and it will rightfully so be met with a lethal response.
She wasn't killed because police were there for a wellness check, she was killed because of the knife. Full stop. Now if the argument is you don't believe the police due to the current climate then I'll grant you that and we can wait for the independent investigation to take place. But if what the police say happened is actually what happened then this appears to be a good shot.
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I posted this video in the George Floyd thread yesterday. In it, policing experts from the UK claim that it is absolutely NOT necessary to shoot suspects armed with knives and that officers can disarm and apprehend them in a non-lethal manner that is safe for both the police and for the public. So don't claim that it's a fait accompli that this woman
had to be shot dead and no other outcome was possible.
Maybe it was indeed necessary to use lethal force in this particular case. I'm personally withholding judgement either way until more facts are known. I can say definitively, though, that if we trained our cops differently, fewer people would be killed by their hand, and it's possible Ms. Moore might still be alive.