Cop Shoots and Kills Unarmed Deaf Man as He Tries to Communicate Using Sign Language
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There doesn't have to be more to it really, though of course there might be.
The guy might simply not have noticed the flashing lights. He certainly wouldn't have heard the siren.
Quite plausible that the cop deliberately crashed into him to stop the vehicle. They're a bit keen, US cops.
The old itchy trigger finger
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Sure we'll hear the finer details later, but atm I think 25 years custodial is the right thing for this police officer. The guy was a deaf civilian, not a gun or machete-wielding terrorist.
It's an American problem first and foremost, not an "armed police" problem.
Jean Charles de Menezes?
Really? I thought it was well-known by now that the errors that day were down to the surveillance team and the command structure, not the firearms unit who were acting on the poor intelligence being passed to them.
Hardly the same.
Quite plausible, I agree, but from the way it's written it sounds like the collision took place a while before they stopped. Surely then he should have noticed the large blue and white car with blue flashing lights behind him?
I don't see what the fact that they crashed into him and had their lights on has got to do with anything.
If he stopped and surrendered 20 minutes earlier and did the same sign language they'd have shot him anyway, no?
You don't spontaneously go deaf after 20 minutes in a police chase.
If he stopped and surrendered 20 minutes earlier and did the same sign language they'd have shot him anyway, no?
You don't spontaneously go deaf after 20 minutes in a police chase.
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Even if that is completely applicable to the point (which is questionable), that was over a decade ago. You'll always get mistakes but the stats show it's pretty rare here.
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So which uk airport and city are going to get disrupted BLM?
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The fact that he's evaded custody for so long suggests that he may have something to hide which raises the threat profile. It does make a difference.
Merely having something to hide doesn't warrant murder though
This guy wasn't brandishing a gun at the officers.
Well Asim, if you were clearly able to compete on the same intellectual level as myself and Tefal then you would.
You see it would be a pretty big indication that they wanted him to stop or move over. Him refusing to do so is normally a sign that he doesn't want to comply. This is normally because he is a bad person who has something to hide from the police.
That in turn may explain why the police officer was then very gun happy upon finally having the guy stop.
Having something to hide doesn't warrant murder though
Nobody said it did.
What warranted the murder then?
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Merely having something to hide doesn't warrant murder though
This guy wasn't brandishing a gun at the officers.
No, clearly this shouldn't have happened, but my point was that officers will be more twitchy due to the raised threat.
Nobody has said it was warranted, we don't know the full circumstances. What people are saying is they can understand why the police officer may have been on edge given the evidence we have so far.
He committed a crime.
He's seemingly attempted to evade arrest.
He already has a prior conviction for resisting arrest.
A number of police officers have recently been murdered merely for being police officers.
American police officers face a daily risk of being shot at.