04-25-2021, 06:56 PM
Lemon Drop wrote:
Many questions here for an independent investigation.
12 minutes elapsed between the first 911 call and the arrival of the officer who fired his weapon .Somebody was making a second call when he rolled up but hung up before giving any info.
During that 12 minutes and whatever happened before, Ma'Khia did not injure anyone, it's not known if anyone was assaulting or threatening her. Nobody had been injured. It is not yet clear who made calls.
5 other people were present, men and women all older than Ma'Khia, before the officer arrived. Why did these people not leave and run if they thought she was going to injure or kill them? They had plenty of time.
At least one of them yelled in disbelief that the officer shot her 10 seconds after he opened his car door.
This situation badly calls for a step back and a deep breath.
I look at these pictures and watch the video, and so far only come away with questions about tragedy.
- Ma’Khia is clearly welding a knife and shows every intent of harming the other young lady.
- Yes, she might have stopped for some impossible to guess reason, but she’s fractions of a second away from stabbing this young lady. Whose life do you gamble with in that sliver of time, the attacker’s or the victim’s?
- As much as the precursors to this moment will tell a larger story, in that moment of decision, those details are as far away as Mars as one person stands ready to injure or snuff out the life of another.
- Some of the bystanders are simply being bystanders being bystanders. But more to the point of why didn’t they run away (presumably because they themselves weren’t being threatened), was there no one there close enough in Ma’Khia‘s life to step forward and try and reach her, even a little, in her fury? The only action recorded being cowardly addition to the chaos.