musiqsoulchild wrote:johnnyvann840 wrote:musiqsoulchild wrote:
I would have condoned a shoot to kill in all 3 situations.
Regardless of the race of the officer or the criminal.
Those situations arent very similar to what occurred in Floyd or Blake's case.
Even with Rayshard in ATL.
Or Laquan in Chicago or Michael Brown in St. Louis.
Heres what I would do if it was a dangerous area where as a cop I am going in for a call:
1) The precinct I work for MUST have protocols of escalation because it's a more dangerous neighborhood that we police in
2) The goal should always be to apprehend a criminal. Not to kill him/her. We have all heard of "Suicide by Cop". A few criminals prefer that go going away for a long time. A protocol needs to exist for that. For protecting the criminal and the Cops.
3) A team always responds...with backup in place.
4) The community leadership is actively involved in such situations to de-escalate.
5) Cops are trained in de-escalation
The question is in the 2 scenarios why does the criminal get belligerent with a Cop? When they wont with a Civilian?
Are they in the midst of a criminal act? Is it better to let them complete the criminal.act and then pick them up when things are naturally unexpected and deescalated.
Insight.
Not saying any of this justifies what happened, but it certainly changes the way I look at the entire scenario. If the cops were aware of all of this and Blake really was resisting arrest, fighting with the cops prior to the video we all saw a million times. If he really just essentially broke into a woman's home, finger raped this woman while she was sleeping and had a history of domestic abuse with her. Also, he had just stole her vehicle as well, according to her. Btw, this is the same woman who he had just sexually assaulted in July which is the reason he had a warrant for his arrest in the first place. She called 911 after he sexually assaulted her and she realized her car was gone and her keys had been taken from her purse by Blake.
I just hate that the media only reports half the story, which winds up inciting riots and violence. Perhaps if people got the whole story from the media, they would react differently or at least wait until all the facts are known.The responding officers were aware he had an open warrant for felony sexual assault, according to dispatch records and the Kenosha Professional Police Association, which released a statement on the incident on Friday.
That police union statement also claimed that Blake was armed with a knife at the time of the shooting — and had put one cop in a headlock and shrugged off two Taser attempts while resisting arrest.
Blake, who was paralyzed in the shooting, had been handcuffed to his hospital bed due to the warrant, which was vacated Friday, according to a statement released by his lawyer, Benjamin Crump. His restraints were removed, but he is still facing the criminal charges, Crump said.
Blake is accused in the criminal complaint, which was obtained by The Post, of breaking into the home of a woman he knew and sexually assaulting her.
The victim, who is only identified by her initials in the paperwork, told police she was asleep in bed with one of her children when Blake came into the room around 6 a.m. and allegedly said “I want my sh-t,” the record states.
She told cops Blake then used his finger to sexually assault her, sniffed it and said, “Smells like you’ve been with other men,” the criminal complaint alleges.
The officer who took her statement said she “had a very difficult time telling him this and cried as she told how the defendant assaulted her.”
The alleged victim said Blake “penetrating her digitally caused her pain and humiliation and was done without her consent” and she was “very humiliated and upset by the sexual assault,” the record states.
She told police she “was upset but collected herself” and then allegedly ran out the front door after Blake, the complaint says. She then realized her car was missing, checked her purse and saw the keys were missing and then “immediately called 911,” the complaint alleges.
The alleged victim told cops she has known him for eight years and claims that he physically assaults her “around twice a year when he drinks heavily.”
Police filed charges against him for felony sexual assault, trespassing and domestic abuse in July when a warrant was issued for his arrest.
On Sunday, within three minutes of responding to the 911 call, Blake was shot 7 times in the back as he attempted to get into his car.
Let's apply that insight now.
I arrive on the scene. I ascertain that those are HIS kids and are rightfully with the correct custodian.
And, I let him drive away.
I then collect all the information from the person who called in the cops. And then, assign a cop to protect her UNTIL we arrest Blake later that day when the kids are not in danger.
I mean, there's a million ways to go about it that is better than current police procedure.
I agree with you 100% on that. I'm just saying that he is not just some innocent dude who was shot up for trying to get into his car. He was a dangerous criminal who may or may not have threatened the cops with a knife. We just don't know. We do know that he is pretty much a scumbag though. Again, not saying that justifies the actions of the police in this instance, but I have a lot less sympathy for him and am willing to wait for the facts to surface before I condemn the cops. They very well may have been threatened by somebody they knew was a criminal with violent tendencies and may or may not have had a knife.
