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Old 04-05-2018, 08:09 PM
 
Location: New York City
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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
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Old 04-05-2018, 08:13 PM
 
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Everyone in the neighborhood knew that he was odd but never violent.
Repeating made up facts. Not surprised, this is the internet after all
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Old 04-05-2018, 08:24 PM
 
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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?
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Old 04-05-2018, 08:35 PM
 
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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.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/n...e=sectionfront
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Old 04-05-2018, 08:36 PM
 
Location: Free State of Florida, Support our police
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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!
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Old 04-05-2018, 08:38 PM
 
Location: New Jersey!!!!
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Well, bye.
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Old 04-05-2018, 08:46 PM
 
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How is it white people's fault?
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.
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Old 04-05-2018, 09:07 PM
 
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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. This shooting was 100% justified. The protesters need to S T F U (which is usually the case.)

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Old 04-05-2018, 09:57 PM
 
Location: Brooklyn the best borough in NYC!
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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.
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Old 04-05-2018, 10:05 PM
 
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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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