Discussion for article #228356
Isnât it always an accident when cops shoot you in the back?
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They shoot up Brown people too? I thought this treatment was reserved for Blacks.
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Police initially had said that Laureano was stabbed before officers arrived. The medical examiner said no stab wounds were found on his body.
Oops. First lie debunked. Go to Option B. It was an accident.
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Bang! Bang! âHalt! Police!â
Sigh. Another day of business as usual.
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Based on the articles I see regularly here at TPM, itâs always an accident anytime anybody shoots anyone, anywhere.
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It seems that itâs dangerous to call the police for help. How so many unqualified and incompetent cops around? How did they graduate from the Academy?
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Kind of like the time they accidentally shot innocent bystanders when trying to shoot a mentally disabled man.
This is a terribly tragic story. However, I think it is worth pointing out that perhaps it is a bad idea to rush past policemen to confront someone wielding a knife?
The woman and children threatened by the knife wielder were unharmed. Only innocent victim was the guy who rushed in front of the police.
This story is tragic, but bothers me much less than cops shooting black men who are obeying police orders to get their driverâs licenses at a gas station.
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Thatâs a fair and level-headed take, I think. Thanks for introducing a balanced perspective to these stories. It doesnât take much imagination to see how such an âaccidentâ might legitimately occur without having to attribute malice to the officers or having to invoke the victimâs ethnicity.
From the sounds of it, it sounds like the officers were verbally engaging the suspect and urging him to drop the knife, as they had him at gun point and were ready to use deadly force if he exhibited any further threatening moves with the knife. Textbook, so far, I would think. Then I can imagine how, the victim rushing towards the suspect may have reflexively prompted the suspect to raise his knife-wielding arm, perhaps taken on an even more combative stance, which in turn reflexively prompted an officer to fire his weapon. Itâs possible that the suspect saw and reacted to the victim rushing towards him before the officers did.
Anybody who thinks an officer was confronting a knife-wielding man at gunpoint and happening to notice a Hispanic man running behind him thought to himself, âNever mind the guy with the knife, hereâs an unarmed Hispanic guy running by me - Iâll shoot him instead in the back!â should really step out of these serious conversations.
This was no accident. The police are racist fascist scum. [/libtard]
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Queue the âreleaseâ of any dirty laundry anywhere in this poor manâs history and claims that he âAttackedâ the police officers (and maybe âbroke the orbital boneâ of one of them?)
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If I was a man of color in this country, I would do my best NEVER to encounter the police in any circumstance. Good Lord! The plethora of shooting minority men stories are coming so fast and furious, one can barely keep up. African American and Hispanic men must feel as if they have to stay in their homes to save their lives at this point. Jeebus!!
Apparently the amount of retraining required for most cops in America is too enormous to imagine.
All senseless deaths at the hands of cops, if proven, should be lamented and abhorred.
What was the military saying? Shoot em all and let God sort it out.
Many cops are ex-military. Just sayinâ.
So this time the innocent guy shot was not grabbing for a copâs gun but was reaching for a knife.
Does TPM have to use suggested headlines or do they write their own?
âAccidentally Killedâ is such a bullshit phrase.
You keep using that word âaccidentallyâ. I do not think that word means what you think it means.
One bullet to the back is an accident.
Two bullets to the back is clumsiness.
Three or more bullets to the back is extraordinarily unfortunate.
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