Police deadly shooting in Crown Heights (New York, Utica: real estate, high school, living in)
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sad story, but I feel like the mobs in the street are using this guy to advance their agenda against the police
I agree. There have been many incidents where police shot unarmed black men and the police behavior was criminal, but this case seems really different to me. The activists should stick to the stories where police criminality is more clear than this one.
I don't get why people can't understand that when three 911 calls come in about a man threatening people with a gun, and the police arrive and there's a man brandishing what looks like a gun and standing in shooting posture, that the police are going to shoot! I think they have to, in order to protect the public.
They did not have the luxury of time to go around interviewing neighborhood residents to find out "oh, this guy is just mentally ill" and even if they had, who's to say that a mentally ill man with a violent criminal history isn't going to snap one day and start terrorizing the neighborhood with a gun in his hands?
According to this NY Times article, neighbors and local patrol officers did know the man was mentally ill. The plainclothes anti-crime officers who responded to the 911 calls and shot him did not. I agree it’s hard to fault the police in this case.
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Great job by the cops. You run around acting like you have a gun. You have an object that looks like a gun. You have 3 separate calls that you are threatening the public with a gun. You point an object at the cops that appears to be a gun. You get shot!
I saw a viral, lengthy FB post with someone insinuating that white gentrifiers calling the police is responsible for situations like this. I strongly disagree because white people in these types of neighborhoods aren't the type to call the police for petty things, in addition to the fact that not only white people call the police.
I saw a viral, lengthy FB post with someone insinuating that white gentrifiers calling the police is responsible for situations like this. I strongly disagree because white people in these types of neighborhoods aren't the type to call the police for petty things, in addition to the fact that not only white people call the police.
Well that part of Utica isn’t exactly gentrified either and I saw that post and made a comment disagreeing. The only thing white on that side of Utica is probably a jew.
Well that part of Utica isn’t exactly gentrified either and I saw that post and made a comment disagreeing. The only thing white on that side of Utica is probably a jew.
Interesting, I wasn't too familiar with the ethnic breakdown of Crown Heights so I didn't know that. Even Bushwick is overwhelmingly nonwhite still, so I think it's silly to assume that only a white person could have called the police in a case like this.
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