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How bout "Man Attacks Police with Screwdriver and is Shot for his Stupidity"
If you have one, let alone three or more police officers with guns drawn, shouting at you to drop the screwdriver or weapon and you decide to charge; then maybe you have lived far too long. The shank of most screwdrivers is long enough to kill and there is no way for our police to determine if anybody has sharpened the blade - even unsharpened blades would still be lethal.
Our police are there because we hired them to be there protecting the public. They also have the right to protect themselves. It is not only foolish to second guess them; it is suicidal to not abide by the verbal commands of the responding officers.
In this case they may be able to claim self defense. Being a cop has nothing to do with it.
I was just making the point that the hundreds of white police shooting victims every year get very little coverage compared to black victims because it doesn't fit the media narrative--i.e. Stephon Clark vs. Daniel Shaver--and white people refuse to stand up for the white victims like BLM does with black victims.
White people don't "stand up for white people" just because they're white.
Maybe BLM and the Left wing media should take notes.
Once again... There is media coverage - else nobody would know about it.
Why isn't there more coverage... because YOU don't care enough.
And once again... for some reason, white people "choose" not to protest when their own are killed by cops. I guess they think it's no problem. As for riots. They are always rare.
"Once again... There is media coverage - else nobody would know about it."
Local ONLY.
Have you seen it on any of the alphabet NATIONAL TV stations?
Why DON'T ANY of these stories make the alphabet TV coverage?
A great job in my book is when the situation is de-escalated and no one dies.
This would have been dealt with differently in many countries.
Some US Police Departments are very quick to just shoot people who often have mental health issues.
In this case it was clealy a screwdriver, and there were numerous officers, so why didn't they just use their batons and spray or confine him using shields which is what they do in most countries.
Prison Officers and those who work in secure Psychiatric environments reguarly take down very disturbed people who often have improvised or home made weapons such as shanks.
In most European Countries the killing of a man with a srewdriver in such circumstances would be deemed an unlawful killing and would contravene Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights - 'The Right to Life'.
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