bendog
Diamond Member
Absolutly. The cop had to shoot that unarmed sober black man to protect his children int he back seat of his are. It' as plain as the nose on Trump's face!!!!Exactly. What is it? 13% black population but they are responsible for 90% of violent crime?Black crime sure has ruined the reputation of your people. You guys do so much shooting that it makes everyone paranoid.Damn, your domestic violence causing sex offender had a knife. Now what do you have to say, idiot?Bro, for fuck sake, go research your boy. He is an illegal gun owning, gun brandishing, child endangering, sex offender.Your boy is a sex offender too. You fucking people never fail to defend the worst people in our society.A warrant was issued for his arrest the day before. Quit commenting on stories you arent familiar with. Your ignorance based opinions are completely worthless here.His civil rights werent violated. Where did you get that weird idea?That is irrelevant.With the big question being why were they trying to detain him?
Possibly violating someone's civil rights are never irrelevant.
We have no idea if that is true yet or not. Unless they can state why they wanted to question and taser him his rights were violated.
I'll note you didn't provide a link.
According to the criminal complaint, Blake and two women were at the Brass Monkey tavern, 1436 Junction Avenue, Saturday when Blake got into an argument with another patron and pulled a black handgun. Blake pointed the gun at the other man, and the magazine fell to the floor. The bartender told Blake to leave, and he did but then pointed the gun through the window at patrons inside the bar before walking south on Junction Avenue.
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UPDATE: K9 Dozer Helps Subdue Man Who Pulled Gun at Bar | Racine County Eye
UPDATE 8/26/2020: Please note, court officials told the Racine County Eye that Mr. Blake was not convicted of any of the charges listed in this story.racinecountyeye.com
I've heard people relating the ownership of a gun with sexual inferrences but never quite to this extent.
He might be. It doesn't give the police the right to try and kill him.![]()
He might have. He might not have. He was leaving and was shot in the back.
Sometimes they lie.
Sacramento police shot man holding cellphone in his grandmother's yard
Ex-Baton Rouge police officer accused of lying about shooting will face grand jury
The cops were protecting those 3 poor children in the car. This lunatic criminal fleeing from police and trying to either arm himself or get in the car to inherently endanger those children. The dude wouldn't follow police instruction. Sucks to be him, but no jury will condemn the police on this.Or just a simple rule of engagement that lethal force only be used as a last resort when an actual threat is present and not a perceived or imagined threat. The three officers did nothing to physically restrain or prevent what happened. The had no control of the scene. But maybe that was by design. Innocence by incompetence.
The circumstances of when deadly force is authorized are hardly ambiguous. This is from Cornell Law School (my notes in bold):
§ 1047.7 Use of deadly force.
(a) Deadly force means that force which a reasonable person would consider likely to cause death or serious bodily harm. Its use may be justified only under conditions of extreme necessity, when all lesser means have failed or cannot reasonably be employed. A protective force officer is authorized to use deadly force only when one or more of the following circumstances exists:
(1) Self-Defense. When deadly force reasonably appears to be necessary to protect a protective force officer who reasonably believes himself or herself to be in imminent danger of death or serious bodily harm.
Blake was carrying neither a gun or a knife. There was no gun in his car, therefore the police on scene should've been able to employ other measures to subdue him...
(2) Serious offenses against persons. When deadly force reasonably appears to be necessary to prevent the commission of a serious offense against a person(s) in circumstances presenting an imminent danger of death or serious bodily harm (e.g. sabotage of an occupied facility by explosives).
Again, with no weapon available to Blake, there was no imminent danger to anyone...
(3) Nuclear weapons or nuclear explosive devices. When deadly force reasonably appears to be necessary to prevent the theft, sabotage, or unauthorized control of a nuclear weapon or nuclear explosive device.
(4) Special nuclear material. When deadly force reasonably appears to be necessary to prevent the theft, sabotage, or unauthorized control of special nuclear material from an area of a fixed site or from a shipment where Category II or greater quantities are known or reasonably believed to be present.
Note: (These offenses are considered by the Department of Energy to pose a significant threat of death or serious bodily harm)
I don't think we really need to discuss these two...
(5) Apprehension. When deadly force reasonably appears to be necessary to apprehend or prevent the escape of a person reasonably believed to: (i) have committed an offense of the nature specified in paragraphs (a)(1) through (a)(4) 1 of this section; or (ii) be escaping by use of a weapon or explosive or who otherwise indicates that he or she poses a significant threat of death or serious bodily harm to the protective force officer or others unless apprehended without delay.
Blake was not fleeing from the commission of a crime, and the warrant for his arrest fails to satisfy this requirement, nor was he using a weapon of any type which may have been a danger to the police officer...
(b) Additional Considerations Involving Firearms. If it becomes necessary to use a firearm, the following precautions shall be observed:
(1) A warning, e.g. an order to halt, shall be given, if feasible, before a shot is fired.
(2) Warning shots shall not be fired.
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The cop who fired the seven shots is fucked. There's simply no way for a reasonable person to reach the conclusion that firing seven bullets into the man from behind was the way to handle this...