Something about these police killings elicits the absolute dumbest takes by DU.
sop (4,683 posts)
5. Police apologists will point out the life of a bystander was not being threatened, so the police weren't "forced to shoot to save a life" in the video shown. Perhaps they're right. Still, I find it more than a bit hypocritical police are justifying shooting one black girl by claiming they were saving the life of another, paricularly when they generally show so little regard for black lives in general.
In other words, you can't be satisfied. If a police officer saves a black person's life, it's 'hypocritical' because other police failed to do so before.
RegularJam (23 posts)
6. What I find most disturbing is the praise that the officer "saved" the other girl.
It's a dishonest argument. Each person making such an argument is pushing a falsehood, based in their acceptance of police shootings and brilliance that comes from their movie watching expertise, in order to justify the unnecessary killing of a citizen by the state.
No, it's a
fact. And the only people who seem to be drawing fake expertise from Hollywood fiction are the people who think there could easily have been a less lethal solution against a knife-wielding individual on the verge of stabbing someone. The officer could have used a taser, and hoped to God that that was sufficient to halt the attack, or he could try to run up and disarm the suspect with some Chuck Norris level shit and hope he and the victim didn't get stabbed before he disarmed her, or he could do what he did: use the highest level of force to save a life.