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If it’s not too traumatic for you, I’d recommend watching the body cam footage from the fork incident. It’s is pretty informative, and gives some context for what happened.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=r6XXO13UEec
I feel like that video just makes the LAPD's case worse. Guy had a plastic fork... They had a very long huddle discussing tactics all of which resulted in a complete failure. Like this is epic levels of fucking retarded. Re assign all these officers to simple traffic duty and take their firearms.
Or we can just continue letting a bunch of jacked up half wits wander around heavily armed free to just shoot citizens with cutlery.
Yeah... no doesn't really provide much context
Yes it does. This person was shot because he was attacking cops.
It's crazy how some of you think this shouldn't happen.
I used to be a youth worker. If a kid tried to stab me with scissors, which wasn't completely uncommon, I wasn't allowed to fucking kill a child in my care instantly on the spot.
Instead, I learned de-escalation techniques and after a while it never even came to attempted stabbing because we worked out systems where it didn't ever get that far.
Often the question gets asked - "What restraining techniques did you use?"
I didn't. Didn't need 'em.
"What if someone is completely insane?"
Fiction. No one is completely insane. It's a myth made up to justify lethal force and summary execution.
"Would you go up against someone with a gun without a gun?"
They didn't have a gun they had a fork. But also, I didn't apply interview, train and get paid to be an LEO. These people did.
Fast walking towards people with a fork QUICK SEND IN THE SPECIAL FORCES HE'S DANGEROUS
he grabbed an officers gun, dude. This isn't George Floyd.
Pretty easy to grab a gun when the ratio of guns to people in the room is 2:1