This is a super complicated topic. Pepsi kind of brought us to where the actual debate should be... At what point is lethal force deployed when a suspect resists arrest, or in this case, maybe fugitive is a more accurate word.
I don't want to live in a society where criminals decide when they get arrested. Especially an accused sex criminal with a history of violence... About to get in a vehicle with 3 kids who can then become hostages.
It's not an easy scenario. Blake shouldn't have been shot 7 times and paralyzed. I wish the cops had better training and were able to subdue him. But they couldn't, and they tried. And then he was either going to flee in a vehicle or get a weapon. I guess they could have waited to see what he did next but the situation was rapidly escalating.
What drives me nuts tho is the narrative that he was black and that's why he was shot. There just isn't evidence of that, and because of that inflammatory rhetoric there's violence in the streets with people dying.
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