04-24-2021, 10:42 AM
The witnesses are in agreement that she had a knife.
Wholly irrelevant.
She did have a knife and there is physical evidence of that, witness testimony or not.
The officer saw the threat and took appropriate action.
The witnesses are not at all in agreement that the only good solution here was to shoot and kill this girl.
So what, as if they did anything to mitigate the situation before the police were called.
No, it wasn't a good solution, but as the video shows, it was the only solution which realistically could have prevented a worse outcome for the second girl.
Do they or you have any viable suggestions that would have prevented her death while simultaneously preventing the girl in pink from being stabbed, and are you willing to bet her life on that?
The foster mother, who was not home at the time, has described the argument over housekeeping that she says led up to the aggressive behavior:
While knowing some background is interesting, it doesn't make this a '16yo girl killed by police over dirty laundry' issue and is irrelevant to the officer's response.
She was an active threat with a deadly weapon.
Not that it matters, but do you think either of the two victims were in fear for their lives?
Or do you think the suspect was 'just playin'?
The officer who fired the shots has been on the force 16 months.
And performed admirably, doing a thankless job in a lose-lose situation, preventing one if not two injuries or deaths.
These events have to be opportunities to get better at de-escalating violence.
This event shows that deescalation had/has to begin long before the police were called.
That officer only had time to say 'what's going on' before the threats materialized.
At what point could what deescalation tools have been utilized between the time of the officer arriving and his stopping the attack?
While not a deescalation, a Taser is a less-lethal tool that is a poor choice against a deadly weapon.
If both probes don't strike the suspect properly, or if it doesn't immediately stop the suspect, he/she is still a threat to a victim.
Not to mention, I'm not even sure that department has Tasers.
A lot of people failed this deceased young lady.
Ain't that a kick in the head.
The suspect deserved better than whatever led up to her becoming an active threat.
But then she crossed a line.
Wholly irrelevant.
She did have a knife and there is physical evidence of that, witness testimony or not.
The officer saw the threat and took appropriate action.
The witnesses are not at all in agreement that the only good solution here was to shoot and kill this girl.
So what, as if they did anything to mitigate the situation before the police were called.
No, it wasn't a good solution, but as the video shows, it was the only solution which realistically could have prevented a worse outcome for the second girl.
Do they or you have any viable suggestions that would have prevented her death while simultaneously preventing the girl in pink from being stabbed, and are you willing to bet her life on that?
The foster mother, who was not home at the time, has described the argument over housekeeping that she says led up to the aggressive behavior:
While knowing some background is interesting, it doesn't make this a '16yo girl killed by police over dirty laundry' issue and is irrelevant to the officer's response.
She was an active threat with a deadly weapon.
Not that it matters, but do you think either of the two victims were in fear for their lives?
Or do you think the suspect was 'just playin'?
The officer who fired the shots has been on the force 16 months.
And performed admirably, doing a thankless job in a lose-lose situation, preventing one if not two injuries or deaths.
These events have to be opportunities to get better at de-escalating violence.
This event shows that deescalation had/has to begin long before the police were called.
That officer only had time to say 'what's going on' before the threats materialized.
At what point could what deescalation tools have been utilized between the time of the officer arriving and his stopping the attack?
While not a deescalation, a Taser is a less-lethal tool that is a poor choice against a deadly weapon.
If both probes don't strike the suspect properly, or if it doesn't immediately stop the suspect, he/she is still a threat to a victim.
Not to mention, I'm not even sure that department has Tasers.
A lot of people failed this deceased young lady.
Ain't that a kick in the head.
The suspect deserved better than whatever led up to her becoming an active threat.
But then she crossed a line.