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Originally Posted by New Era
I do have a question about the knife and admission to having a knife. I carry a knife on me everywhere I go. It has a blade that is about two inches long. Is that a concealed weapon that gives cops the right to draw down and shoot me when I admit to having it on my person?
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Just for clarification, he admitted to having it in his possession after the incident according to authorities. And for extra clarity, in his possession was not defined and could mean that he admitted to having a knife in his car.
However, at the time of the incident, as alleged by the police union's retelling of events, he had the knife in his hand. Not in his pocket and concealed or in his car. This is reasonably collaborated with the video that has the officers yelling for him to drop the knife. So it's a pretty big false equivalency there if we're trying to compare a knife in hand after a violent struggle and a pocket knife in your pocket.
I would like to think that admitting to a weapon (or tool that can be used as a weapon), while not actively trying to use it or access it would not prompt the cops to draw down and shoot you, but unfortunately with Philando Castile's murder, we know that's not always the case:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooti...ilando_Castile
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"I thought, I was gonna die, and I thought if he's, if he has the, the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the five-year-old girl and risk her lungs and risk her life by giving her secondhand smoke and the front seat passenger doing the same thing, then what, what care does he give about me?
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And this piece of #### murderer got off despite video evidence.