regardless of whether or not you agree with this evan person's take here (i do and don't. i will say, if she planned on not getting shot, stabbing a cop in the face was a bad move, not that i care about the cop, just that if she planned to keep her life) no one is even pointing out how all of this is only what THIS "body cam actually reveals", out of the thousands you can go look at of cops unjustly shooting unarmed black and brown people, this one time someone might have provoked no other option they act like this is every case when it's definitely in the tiniest minority of cases.

  • spectre [he/him]
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    8 days ago

    You can easily get killed trying to "unarm someone with a knife". There's not really something to train for unless you see a "suicide mission" as an acceptable outcome.

    By the time we are at a point where a knife-wielder is face to face with cop-with-a-gun, we are too late to avoid a lose-lose situation. The United States has such a violent culture that cultivates these sorts of situations. I think it's important to focus on the big picture of what a socialist future would lol like.

    • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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      8 days ago

      You can easily get killed trying to "unarm someone with a knife". There's not really something to train for unless you see a "suicide mission" as an acceptable outcome.

      No, stop buying into the US Policing narrative. It is not particularly dangerous or difficult for a trained and equipped person (i.e a cop) to disarm some random person with a knife, that's why our (UK) cops do it all the time instead of shooting people. Americans are just complete milksops.

        • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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          7 days ago

          So weirdly I tried to find some actual stats on police disarming knife weilding suspects in the UK but it's just bringing up articles comparing incidents of UK police disarming knife weilders to incidents of US police shooting them.
          https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/london-police-knife-wielding-suspect_n_56636dc5e4b08e945fefcacd
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9TFvh6Xps4
          https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41314562
          https://www.rt.com/usa/311340-video-police-brutality-uk/

          Generally, if someone's getting killed by cops here it's a racism thing, it's not their default response to stimuli.

    • RaisedFistJoker [she/her]
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      8 days ago

      Wrong

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppnyF4Rdu2g

      In america they wouldve killed both the attacker and hostage

    • D61 [any]
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      7 days ago

      Police officer thoughts, "oops, i guess I put TWO pistols on my belt instead of a taser. my bad"