[LeatherFace]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Bad patterns of behaviour are irrelevant. Each interaction with cops is unique on it's own. If an all-around angel pulls a gun on a cop and gets shot, it doesn't matter how much of an angel he was. If someone with a criminal record the size of the state of Texas poses no lethal threat and gets shot by a cop while he's walking away, it doesn't matter how much of a criminal he was.

IT IS relevant because it shows the likelihood of someone acting out violently towards you and whether you should be more careful around them or not. If police know that there's a warrant for Blake and he's known to be violent then why wouldn't you use take more precautions in dealing with him?

On the other side if Blake knows he has a warrant for him, don't you think that could affect his decision making process compared to if he didn't have anything against him? That he chose to be combative and wanted to leave vs if he had a clean record he'd be more likely to stay peaceful knowing he has nothing to hide?

It's only relevant to people who want to justify the shooting in ways it cannot be justified. You're free to bring it up, but it doesn't matter. Either cops shooting people in the back is something you're ok with, and cops choking people to death when they're no threat to them is something you're ok with, or it's not.

Or maybe a person's history suddenly became irrelevant when its not a very good look to have major sports leagues and athletes and a huge movement to be supporting a man who less than 2 months ago broke into a woman's home that he knew and abused and sexually assaulted her and that he was going to court charged for several offenses for that incident. Naww that has NOTHING to do with why his history is irrelevant.

What if Blake had no criminal history whatsoever? Would you, BLM, the media etc. all say that that was irrelevant as well or don't you think that wouldn't be broadcasted 24/7 that an unarmed black man with no criminal history whatsoever was still shot by police anyways. That's a goldmine storyline that you would be using all day and night and you know it.

The same goes for the cop that shot Blake. If he had a long history of incidents of aggressively and even sometimes violently dealing with the public and he was disciplined several times for it, but was still on the force are you seriously going to tell me you would also say that's irrelevant and let that completely drop? Of course not. You and the media would be on that story 24/7 asking why he wasn't fired a long time ago rather than being allowed to still be a cop with that kind of record and rightfully so. There's no way you would say 'that cop's history isn't relevant to this incident' because clearly it is and you and everyone else WOULD NEVER let that drop because it was 'irrelevant'.

Protesters do care about laws. Do rioters and looters? No, but why confuse them? If every protester is no different than a rioter and looter, every white man is no different than a white supremacist.

Because the supposed peaceful protesters don't condemn and separate themselves from the violent elements who are hijacking their movement and many more 'peaceful protesters' are probably rioters and looters themselves. If BLM is so concerned and didn't want their movement and their message to be lost with all the violent and destruction caused by people who might be using their protests as cover then they should actively work to stop those people instead of ignoring/encouraging or even taking part in the violence and looting.

I mean heck they even robbed a Ronald McDonald charity house in Chicago. Even THAT wasn't spared by these people and other BLM people have publicly declared that the looting was 'reparations' so its a OK. THAT'S the kind of people we should be supporting?? THOSE are the kinds of people that BLM and their supporters should be condemning and fighting against, not fighting with.

Nobody deserves to be killed who isn't an immediate deadly threat. You understand that, right? Prostestors, Black people, White people, people defending property. An unarmed Black man with a warrant deserves to be treated the same as a White shooter carrying a gun at least.

An unarmed black man who fought with police and got free despite being tased and refusing all police commands to stop walking away doesn't sound very peaceful and friendly to me. Doesn't mean he deserved to get shot 7 times, but it doesn't mean that Blake had nothing to do with him getting himself shot either.