No, but since you are debating in a public forum you might want to A. make sense B. back up what you say with evidence. Otherwise, you are just saying things that are not true and there is a word for that.
Like I said. I COULDNāT care less what you think of my posting style. And Iām not debating. I just tell it like it is. You donāt like it; thatās your problem. FFS
Makes sense to me.
It makes sense to him until it doesnāt fit his narrative.
A narrative has purpose. So, itās not that. I was Marine Security Forces and know and speak to lots of cops. You NEVER want someone going back into their car once they have been taken out of it, unless YOU decide they can go. Regardless of pretty much everything else.
There are sooooo many more.
Training video for the cops:
https://www.police1.com/officer-down/videos/reality-training-lunsford-incident-U3vlZnVpdJBDxnbU/
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A dangerous 13 yr old threat has been eliminated by the professional well trained Chicago police.
No investigation needed. No need to change training protocols or you know amount of guns in the country. Because of course guns donāt kill people :ā¦
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I think there is a lot to this case not known yet.
Was the kids DNA or fingerprints on the gun?
Did the officer see the gun in his hand while he was chasing?
Iād the gun was his, why did he have it and why was he running?
If he had dropped on the ground and went spread eagle, heād be alive. He went for the fence where it was hard to see his hands.
That kid made a lot of bad decisions, but I think thatās quite an assumption, given that wasnāt the instruction from the cop - the instruction was show me your hands, which it appears the kids was doing; dropping them to get down would be not complying, and the narrative could easily be the hands were going for something.
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The instructions were to ābe more white skinnedā. Since he didnāt comply the threat was eliminated according to standard operating procedures.
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The 21-year-old gangbanger probably handed his gun off to the kid, because a minor is much less likely to get a gun conviction.
Come on.
Of thereās any racism here, itās your attitude.
I think he also turned around very quickly right after his hands were behind the fence. The media is cherry picking a frame after he, most likely, tossed the gun. In real time it can definitely be argued that it appears heās turning to attack.
Could be. Another play stupid games, win stupid prizes situation.
Even an orangutan behaves better with kids.
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The police officer was eventually cleared and returned to duty, the family filed a civil rights lawsuit against him in Oct. 2018, but I canāt find any later info about it.
It would appear he tossed the gun, turned around obeying the copās order to raise his hands, and got shot after he complied.
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He did, but he slid up against a fence with his hand concealed and turned quickly with his hands half up.
Easy to mistake the intent.
Iām sure somehow it was his fault for complying, and not running, in this case. Video I saw had him clearly with hands in the air.
Cops need to realize their default mentality is that they chose a dangerous job and need to be responsible, not that because their job is dangerous theyāre entitled to be trigger happy.
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Obviously the kid should have dropped the gun while he was running. I canāt see how the cop is in the wrong when the kid didnāt visibly drop the gun. Heās holding it just prior to turning and raising his hands and drops it where it canāt be seen. The cop shoots as he is raising his hands. When so many people carry guns this sort of tragedy is unavoidable.
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Yes, they are cherry picking frames to make it look bad.
I had a good look at the video. No kind of motion reaching for a gun, Guy literally stopping and putting his hands up (literally listening to officer). Clearly no gun in them, hands are up by his ears when cop pulls trigger. Disgusting.
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It all happens in a split second. Itās easy to be a Monday morning quarterback though, isnāt it?