He is “white” for US Census purposes.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDog
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He is “white” for US Census purposes.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDog
Still have not gotten an answer to my question. Did the guy in Atlanta or the guy in Boulder surrender, lay down, and put down the gun? Did they continue to fight back?
Really do you have a link that verifies this? Did you ask him what race he identifies with?Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
For all we know, he could identify as a transgendered-cross dressing-gay-lesbian-straight-purple colored zebra tiger. No questions allowed.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDog
I think the bigger point here is what did the police officers see him as? Because the fact that they didn’t see him as a black man sure increased his chances of surviving...statistically speaking.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDog
They saw him as a suspect who obeyed and complied with their orders when they took him into custody.. Jeff Blake even stated that if he had complied with police officers demands and not gone to his car to look for a knife, he would not have been shot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
Wrong, as usual.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDog
Alissa exchanged gunfire with officers who entered the grocery store minutes after they were called, according to officials at this morning’s press conference. He was injured in the gunfight.
Exactly. The police officers job is to disable the assailant. When they submit or are subdued, then the police stop firing.
So we know they are capable...If only they did the same to blacks.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Which of the major stories of a black man killed by cops involved a black man that was totally compliant or was subdued and gave up his weapon?
Cops aren’t legally allowed to kill you for not being compliant. Lethal force can only be used to counter a lethal threat.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
In this case, the cops could have killed Alissa. George Floyd - no excuse.
How about a recent one close to home - Ronald Green from Monroe?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the...3343c.amp.html
I had forgotten about the guy from Monroe. George Floyd was poor training plus enough drugs to kill your average Hollywood drug addict 35 times. He would have died with a paperweight on his chest.
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Originally Posted by Guisslapp
How do you define a lethal threat?? When the suspect has fired shots and killed a police officer. You have no idea what it is like to leave your home in the morning and not know if that was the last time you will see your wife again or not. Easy to Monday morning QB..
Again, the terrorist in Boulder, Colorado was a Trump hating Syrian born Islamic and Muslim faith bragging guy!
When you are in a gunfight, that certainly qualifies as a lethal threat.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDog
When a suspect is resisting arrest but not attacking you, that certainly is not a lethal threat. There is certainly gray areas where you have to ask the question would a reasonable person under the circumstances perceive a lethal threat, but the examples given are not in that gray area.