Dear America, is the goal to shoot and kill every black person?

[Stinky The Clown]

Obviously it is not. But there are stretches of time when it sure feels that way.

Just as an example, why were TEN SHOTS fired into Isaiah Brown? The cop fucked up and shot him. Once. MAYBE twice. But TEN TIMES??? What the fuck?

You don't need to know anything else about what went down.

TEN SHOTS.

That's all you need to know.

[Bettie]

1. Just wait, there will be a chorus of people

who will come out and find excuse after excuse as to why the cop was right and no less than ten bullets would have done the job.

See also: there are no non lethal methods available to cops, because only lethal methods work.

Yes, there is sarcasm in there, but it also encapsulates what a few people around here say time after time.

[uponit7771]

2. K&R, its ok with some as long as the shooting is justified. Justified means ok, right or necessary..

... to a lot of people.

[StarfishSaver]

4. "Justified" to these people means because the cop said so

[uponit7771]

9. +1

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

3. Not sure why he felt need to fire that many times

But dispatched to a domestic with dispatch information of he had asked for a gun and stated he would kill someone. Of course officer was going by information given but again ten shots?

[StarfishSaver]

5. The young man then told the dispatcher he DIDN'T have a gun

He had a phone up to his ear - not pointed toward anyone - and was 50 feet away from the officer.

There was absolutely no reason for the cop to fire on him.

None.

Every officer dispatched to any scene has to consider there's a risk that someone there has a gun. But, as the prosecutors in the Chauvin case said, a risk is not the same thing as a threat. And the cop on that scene saw no threat whatsoever. Even if he THOUGHT the young man was holding a gun, it was up to his head. Why would a cop shoot someone to stop them from shooting themselves?

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

6. There was also his verbal threat to kill someone

My only question is why he felt the need for so many shots. It is dark and hell I can't see a phone much less a gun but sounds of officer it appears he believes it was a gun.

[StarfishSaver]

7. The question should be why he felt the need to shoot him at all

Even if he thought it was a gun, a person having a gun in their hand is not an immediate threat in every situation. And a person having what he thought was a gun TO HIS HEAD is not a threat to anyone but himself. Why did he shoot someone he thought had a gun to his head?

And he was 50 FEET AWAY ... with a CAR. He was in absolutely no immediate danger from that young man. There was no justification for shooting him even once.

[malaise]

8. Murder she wrote

That is all

[Eyeball_Kid]

10. We're getting exposed to treatment of blacks by LEOs only because

of the proliferation of cell phones that can film events without preparation. Before smart phones, access to video recording on the street was cumbersome and required at least some preparation. I'd expect that, before smart phones, the same kind of brutality was common practice.