Glad you didnât include the video.
Cold. Blooded. Murder.
Not sure how you can say that. It might have been. On the other hand, the guy tackled the police officer, and there might have been a struggle for the other officerâs gun. It seems nuance is dead on the left.
Nuance is dead on the left.
Says the man whose party nominated Trump.
Horrido: It seems irony is dead on the right. Reactionaries have never been know for their nuance, so it is funny to see any of you presume to lecture about it.
Seems like thereâs an epidemic of ânuanceâ killing black folks these days. Perhaps we should work on a vaccine.
Thatâs what I thought, based on the description, but I looked it up. The video shows the officer covering Sterling while he was pinned by the other officer, from a kneeling position, point blank as point blank can be. They had reason to expect he would pull a gun on them if he could get at one, and someone who fights two cops after getting zapped and tackled might well do anything. But he couldnât move his body or his arms. His head was exposed. There was a time that cops would be happy to sap a colored boy with the nightsticks they are provided with for just these situations. Instead, he shot him.
The cop might have fired accidentally and decided to follow through, for consistencyâs sake, but it looks to me like he just got impatient with Sterlingâs struggling. It looks like murder.
Yeah, pretty clever of him to tackle the police officer by walking forward less quickly than the cop running forward into his back.
There is none so blind as he who will not see.
Watch the video. It looked like cold-blooded murder. The man was standing perfectly still when he was tackled by the officer. Two officers were on top of him immobilizing him but unable to get handcuffs on him, when something happened to cause them to get more alert and angry and they seemed to both draw their weapons, and then he was shot several times point blank.
Watch the video.
Just always seem like if itâs a black person the confrontation escalates into a fight and then a shooting. But when itâs white person thereâs a lot of calm talking. I know thatâs not 100%, but sure seems like well over half the time.
Media reports describe him as being âgunned downâ. He was already down, he was just gunned. How is this not described as âshot execution-styleâ? I mean, that doesnât exactly capture it but itâs closer than âgunned downâ.
The pigs operate with complete impunity. That pig murdered that man. They had him completely in their control. They didnât even try anything less violent. If he had some cause â a very big IF â he totally had the guy on the ground with his hands free and every opportunity to do whatever he wanted. If it was actually necessary â which I see no evidence of - - why didnât he just hit him real hard on the head with his gun? A few seconds go by and that pig just pulls his gun and flat out murders that guy. I was going to say âexecutesâ but that implies legality.
That pig murdered that man.
Compare (and contrast) with this: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/navy-pointing-gun-people-virginia
One man is dead because of cops reaction to an anonymous phone call. Another, with incident caught on tape, isnât even chargedâŚ
(so, if ALL lives matter, does that include black lives, too?)
How does it not even so much as occur to you that just maybe you ought to watch the video before weighing in with your usual authoritarian victim-blaming? We get that facts are irrelevant to those who reflexively support any police use of force against black or brown people, but arenât you even a bit concerned about concocting a story that is sufficiently consistent with the widely available footage not to look like a complete ass when you do it?
He already knows enough to have an unshakable opinion. And if this ever goes to trial, half of the jurors will be just like him.
Horrido:
Not sure what video you watched, but it is clear that the cop tackled the suspect. While the suspect resisted, it appeared that the two cops were able to use their knees and hands to pin him down. Regardless of whether the suspect had been reaching for copâs gun, the cop was still able to unholster his gun and hold it with both hands 2 feet from the suspectâs chest and fire shots. It is clear that the cop had the ability to take less lethal action This is a question of whether the behavior of the highly trained officer in subduing a suspect is reasonable, not whether Joe Blow off the street wouldâve had a right to shoot somebody if he felt threatened. Cops are not supposed to use lethal force unless they absolutely have to.
Iâm not sure that what Sterling did even counts as resisting. Remember he was just tasered and he was being tackled violently to the ground. You are reflexively going to try to break your fall and you will probably move in one way or another if your arm is being twisted etc. It didnât look like much resistance to me at all. And even if there was, those pigs had him completely under control.
Cops body cams âfell offâ and they took the security video. All we have is a video from a citizen who happened to be filming the altercation.
This was murder, innocent people do not destroy evidence.
The victim didnât tackle the police officer. Even if you havenât seen the video, the story that you supposedly just read clearly states that the police officer tackled the victim.
White people violently resist officers and donât get murdered. White people walk down the street with assault rifles and donât get murdered.
Until white people recognize the humanity in ALL black people (not just their colleagues/classmates) this type of shit will continue. As long as there are no grave, and I do mean grave consequences for these officers, this shit will continue