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HashtagSEP posted...

So body cam footage for the police shooting in Ohio was released. The victim goes from fighting with one girl while the cop walks up to turning and charging at another, who is standing off to the side with a dog in her hands, and then pushes her against a car and is mid-lunge with a knife when the cop pulls their gun and shoots.

Not too sure how to feel about it, since on one hand I absolutely don't like deadly force, but on the other hand I'm not sure what the answer would be for what I'd want them to do otherwise in a case like that since it's literally like a split second thing before somebody's about to be stabbed. It looks like he doesn't have anything in his hands when he's first approaching, so I'm not sure a taser would have worked since those have a safety and briefly need to charge, so it's a much more murky situation.

She could have still stabbed her if she was tased from that distance. Hell, she could have still stabbed her even while she was shot.

Like there is no situation here I think the cop was actually in the wrong. It was hectic, with another man kicking a woman while she was down right next to this. But when someone is in the middle of trying to fatally stab someone, there's just nothing else to do in that situation. He very well probably saved that other girl's life. Had he done anything else, including using a taser, there's a decent likelihood she'd be dead.

There wasn't even a chance for him to properly assess the situation or deescalate. I can't pin this one on the cop, and there's some weird mental gymnastics I've seen to make this seem like it's unjustified.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Absolutely insane.

This is kind of a shitty question though. "Do you want peace, or do you want violence if it means not infringing on protesting right?" Like when you give me that choice, with the vagueness of the limitations on peaceful protest, I'm not voting for either.

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