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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Whether the shooting was justified due to Blake reaching for a gun or not (it may be, if that's the case), this is a pretty scummy take. Not sure how you were raised, but the punishment for his crimes is not seven bullets point blank in the back, it's not having your organs removed, and it's not death (which he is simply lucky to have avoided).
There are also no reliable reports he was carrying a weapon, why would that even make sense if he was then also going to his car to get a weapon when he apparently had one on him? And he was trying to break up a fight between two other people, so why was he the focus of police aggression? Hard to say, but we should reserve judgement either way until we actually know what happened.
Police should be better trained in de-escalation and non-lethal force. Would this situation had happened if they were? We don't yet know for sure. But we don't yet know either way why a man who was not the subject of the police call was gunned down by police.
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Read the entire piece, not just the headline.
https://en.as.com/en/2020/08/25/late...34_230932.html
Also the reports of him “breaking up a fight” are not 100% fact either.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jacob-b...in-11598368824
The police knew he had warrants out, at that time I would suggest he became and should become the focal point.