BoSoxGal wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 3:22 pm
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Well, I see your mind is like concrete. Mixed up and fully set.
Didn't you see the same video of the Blake incident that I did? He had been engaged with law enforcement; and then, instead of obeying their (lawful) commands to stay still or to stop
(red flag #1) ... and even after being Tased
(red flag #2) (although the video does not show that, enough people are confirming the fact that I have no reason to doubt it) ... he walks away from the officers
(red flag #3), who have their guns already drawn
(red flag #4), proceeds to go
entirely around the vehicle to the driver's door while a cop tries to restrain him by pulling on his shirt
(red flag #5), and opens it and reaches in
(red flags #6 thru 10, plus alarm bells, warning sirens, and the robot from "Lost in Space" repeating "Danger, Will Robinson!"). Now he may have just been going for his ID, he may have been going to talk to his kids, he might even have just been going to grab a pack of cigarettes ... or he might have been reaching under the seat for a fully-loaded 9-mm semiautomatic pistol with a round already in the chamber and ready to fire. I don't know; you don't know; and most definitely the cop didn't know — but he does know to expect shit like that.
So put yourself in the cop's shoes — YOU want to go home safe and in one piece also. Are you going to wait until the guy turns around and fires at you before returning fire? That makes about as much sense as if I were to say that you can't condemn a pit bull — or any other dog, for that matter — until it has bitten/maimed/killed at least one person. But you, on the other hand, feel you are perfectly justified in consigning all pit bulls to the ninth level of Dante's Inferno just because they are 'dangerous animals' and you fear for your life around them.
How about the cop? Doesn't he get to act to protect himself before taking the first round in his chest?
-"BB"-
Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?