IliketheBullsNBearstoo wrote:I saw that, but what about it is racist?
I think these are complicated times.
People are so emotionally charged that people are just lining up to take sides and most people feel there is a need to be completely one side or the other.
My understanding of the situation is:
Blake had a felony warrant out for his arrest for domestic violence. 911 was called by a woman due to Blake's presence because he wasn't supposed to be there and had taken her car keys and wouldn't give them back which is a relatively minor domestic dispute all things considered. He isn't hitting her or anything like that, there is no violence going on in the situation that requires a violent escalation of things.
When police arrive, Blake is non compliant and resists arrests. They attempt to taze him unsuccessfully after wrestling him to the ground. Blake slowly strolls back to his car and police allow him to do so. Once there, he attempts to arm himself/is armed as shouts of drop the knife are heard and a knife is recovered from the floorboards of his front seat. He's shot after he, presumably refuses to drop the knife.
I think it's completely understandable for someone to say regardless of arrest warrant he doesn't deserve to be shot and some other action should have been taken. While the 911 call was a domestic disturbance, this wasn't Blake violently striking the woman, he had her car keys and there wasn't an imminent threat. The police fundamentally failed in their job by letting him walk slowly back to the car and even attempt to arm himself which caused this unnecessary escalation which followed.
I think it's also completely reasonable to say this was someone with a felony arrest warrant out for him, that was the antagonist at the scene which caused the police to show up, that resisted arrest repeatedly, that was non compliant to simple commands, and was attempting to arm himself (or had just armed himself) when he was shot.
Unlike Floyd whom was flat out murdered after being incapacitated and not a threat or Taylor whom was just flat out murdered during a no knock raid where she was just sitting at home and never did anything wrong, this situation is far from cut and dry. The police should have done better than they did, but none of this happens if Blake is compliant with commands. This is fundamentally different than Floyd/Taylor whom weren't at fault at all and were straight up murdered, but we're sitting on a powder keg of emotions right now, and no one wants to hear a moderate view of anything.
