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Tired-Insomniac posted...

Lethal force is a completely unnecessary response to an unarmed guy resisting arrest. If three officers can't subdue and detain one guy without killing him then all three of them need to find a job that better suits their mental and physical attributes. If he was close enough to be "brawling" with them, he was close enough to be detained.

I agree, but just like Mike Brown, this is NOT the hill for anti-police or BLM people to be dying on.

Which is exactly why it was publicized.

Notice the open and shut cases like Tamir Rice never get publicized like this nationally. Police assassinate a 12 year old in a park before even getting close, they issue no commands, make zero attempts to arrest, and just gun him down as if we were in Afghanistan.

But they use cases like this where both sides were in the wrong to publicize and throw out so people can fight over.

Unfortunately based on the footage, despite the fact the officers did a piss poor job detaining him before he got to his vehicle, he did indeed ignore police, resist them, and reach inside his vehicle. It was incredibly stupid on his part as well.

Plenty of cops have been shot by people who went to their vehicle to grab a weapon. I honestly don't understand what he was thinking at that point.

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