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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You people are nuts if you think a man who was [i]holding his child[/i] is going to pick a fight with some gigantic stranger.

You're also crazy if you think the guy has any obligation to go "hand to hand" against a monstrous, blank-faced attacker.[/quote]

Where in the report does it say that the man who was shot was gigantic, monstrous, or blank-faced?  Your bigotry towards people with developmental disabilities is evident.  [/quote]

Even his cousin refers to the assailant as "a gentle giant".  Obviously the guy was a big guy who got triggered by something and, without provocation, slammed a man holding a 1 year old baby to the ground.

Glad that innocent baby is o.k.!

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Gentle giant means big, not monstrous, not blank-faced. I agree that PP is bigoted.[/quote]

This guy was apparently both a gentle giant who posed in happy family pictures AND a hulking giant who, without provocation, slammed a man to the ground.  I feel for him and his family because certainly he was normally not a violent individual and his aggressive behavior was out of character for him.  That does not mean that he didn't attack the officer, putting a small child at risk of serious injury.  Because he did.
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Were you there to witness it, or are you just saying what you want to be true to justify murdering some brown people?[/quote]

I am simply going by what the cop's lawyer says happened.  If surveillance video backs up what he is saying then...it is what it is.  The cop was reacting to being aggressively attacked for no reason.  His reasons for firing his weapon were based on the physical threat being posed to himself and his child at the time.  Nice try making it all about race though.  You're a true peach.[/quote]

But being threatened DOES NOT JUSTIFY shooting in a crowded place.  You are not allowed to hurt innocent bystanders just because you subjectively feel threatened.  Police officers, of all people, need to be trained in ways to de-escalate that cause the least harm.  Not to go in guns a-blazin under all circumstances.  It's truly terrifying that we have reached the point where we think it's justifiable that cops have hair triggers and shoot first, ask questions later.

Doesn't anyone remember this amazing video of a Canadian police officer talking down an armed suspect?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43876772

Police in the US have hair triggers because they are TRAINED to be that way, armed, and then on top of that, we allow them to go out in public with their weapons off duty.

I don't care if this police officer was actually attacked -- he had NO business firing like crazy in a crowded grocery store. 
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Unfortunately U.S. cops are pretty inferior to those in Canada.[/quote]

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