(August 25, 2020 at 10:57 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(August 25, 2020 at 10:20 am)onlinebiker Wrote: You seem to be reminded of a couple of facts.
1. We were not witnesses to this event. We saw a carefully selected bit of video showing the gore.
2. Being in one of these situations is very different than forming an opinion about it at leasure. You have lots of time to think about a small bit of information. The cop had to process everything that happened and make a decision in real time.
3. I don't know if this was a justified shooting. Nor do you. Claiming you KNOW what happened here simply puts your bias in sharp relief.
This assumption is based on what?
Bias?
And yet you defend the cops by sarcastically suggesting that he was ‘reaching for a box of puppies.’ Since - as you rightly say - we don’t have all the details, maybe he was reaching for his ID. Maybe he was leaning in to calm is his kids. Maybe he was reaching for a gun.
Why is it that you’re allowed to assume the best about the cops based on little evidence, but I’m not allowed to assume the worst on the same basis?
Smacks of hypocrisy, that does.
Boru
I use sarcasm because it shows the flip side -
You say I assume the best of the cops - but that is the same thinking that got us "Not voting for Hillary is a vote for Trump".
I do NOT assume the best of cops. Cops are just as capable of fuckery as any other group of people.
I simply state that we do not have enough information in this case to make an informed judgement -as is usually the case for this sort of thing.