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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
Are you saying a subject with a known criminal past, an active warrant for raping a female, carrying a knife, scuffling with officers, not complying with orders, is not a threat? Because in the case of Jacob Blake, this is what the police have to go on.
We don’t know what was said, did he threaten them verbally?
“I will kill you pigs” Given what we know, a statement as simple as that , and Blake’s actions that followed (not showing his hands, reaching into his for????) in the heat of battle would escalate this to what happened.
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It's not a battle, they are cops not soldiers, they, like everyone else, only get to use lethal force when they are certain their life is at risk, when a guy with a gun they can see points it at them, when a guy with a knife runs at them (and frankly even then I think resorting to lethal force is cowardice and murder but I would lay that at the feet of the US's abysmally lousy police training rather than an individual cop).
A guy with his back to you getting into a car, even with a knife, does not represent a mortal threat.