Discussion for article #227746
If you tell the truth the first time, you are less likely to look like liars at some point later on.
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You’ll understand if this story is still not acceptable. They need to keep changing until they admit that he wasn’t a threat to anyone, least of all, them. Or better, they should just shut up and charge the people who shot him in the back with either homicide or complicity to homicide, put them in jail, and make it clear that any other cops that kill people just because they can will get the same treatment.
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And once again we get someone who doesn’t understand that one lie is always more effective than two…
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How come the actors in the shooting get to change their stories after the fact, and after a person is already dead?
Also - why is it that only The Guardian seems to be able to bring light to these stories…
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HoodieWearing
Skittle armed
Tea drinking
Hands up
and now
Lunging
while Black
Is part of the LEO’s training for Shoot-To-Kill scenarios.
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From what I understand, the “sword” Hunt was holding was basically a toy purchased at a gift shop. According to the mother, the tip was rounded and the blade was dull and couldn’t have been used to cut or stab someone. Regardless, if this had been a white man with an uzi, he’d have gotten a stern talking to. A black kid with a toy gets dead.
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They broke the Cardinal Rule of the Cop Code, never change the made up, protect the officer at all costs story.
Geez, what has happened to law enforcement. They used to be so much better at this covering up thing.
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Oh sure now everybody is going to say that the handcuffed kid the other week didn’t shoot himself in the chest. Why don’t people just take the police officers’ word for it.
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“Shot in the back while running away …”
impossible to justify - - comes across like they were picking off a coyote that had run through their property.
Do they use video games to train their police force in Utah?
I’ll bet the cop didn’t even have a throwdown to plant on the body. Gross incompetence if you ask me.
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The cops have changed their story from “he lunged at us” to " he was lunging away from us, down the street".
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And this:
“Whether or not the individual lunged again at point two, the other location, I don’t know about that,” Taylor said, according to the Guardian."
Er, sounds like they’ve undertaken a less thn thorough investigation at this point. I wonder why that is.
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Thing is, I can see how a sword is a dangerous weapon. And I can see how at a distance (even a short one) it is hard to tell if a sword is real or a toy.
I guess maybe that’s why cops have fucking GUNS - because they’re proven to be far more effective weapons than even real swords?
What happened? Witnesses that the cops were unaware of. This story is going to go through a few more changes before its all said and done.
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The killing of unarmed black men by police is way too prevalent to pretend it’s some sort of state thing. In the last few months, cops have killed black men in Missouri, Ohio, New York, and now Utah.
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My daddy taught me: “Always tell the Truth. That way you don’t have to “remember” what to say.”
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Well, kids do the strangest things. Like the black kid in Texas or Louisiana a few years ago that was arrested, frisked, handcuffed with hands behind his back in the police car…
…and he still managed to pull out a gun, not to shoot the officer, but to shoot himself in the head.
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You’d think that by now with all the adverse publicity individual cops, if not their departments, would want to be just a little more careful about the circumstances in which they choose to employ lethal force. Really, just a few seconds taken to determine what is actually going on could not only save lives (which they apparently don’t care about) but also save them from having to spend all this time thinking up improbable explanations.
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I get that. Again, this is a situation in which it doesn’t make sense that they didn’t tase him or use some other means to gain control over the situation other than death.
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