If the officers hads allowed him to get in that car and lead them on a high speed chase with 3 kids inside, there would have been a lot more to criticize them about.

But they shot him , because cops in USA know that they can kill a black man with a little to no repercussions, so why take a chance?. For me its hard to believe that one man with a knife is a life thretning situation to a serval trained officers.

So he armed himself before reaching into his car? I thought you were saying he was reaching into his car for a weapon. What weapon did he have before that?

when he gets into the car, the situation shifts

This post was edited by Kayeto on Aug 27 2020 10:31am

The silver knife visible in his left hand in the videos, that was recovered from inside the car after he was shot.
The reason why the cops were shouting "drop the knife"

This post was edited by Goomshill on Aug 27 2020 10:33am

clearly they aren’t well trained since he escapes and shrugs off the taser

he also has a car which is a deadly weapon. Jacob Blake usn’t dead

and the officers that were involved with George Floyd’s death are all charged with murder or accessory, that isn’t “little to no repercussions”. the ones uncharged are in the Breonna Taylor case which nearly everyone agrees is bullshit and a gross violation of the constitution /civil rights (no-knock raids)

This post was edited by excellence on Aug 27 2020 10:36am

I mean, they only got charged because there were riots as a response, and in the case where there weren't riots they didn't get charged.

It's too early to judge whether or not what those charges qualify as "little to no repercussions".

But in the cases of Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo and Daniel Shaver, we have enough information to confirm that their killers received " little to no repercussions".

The historical record of LTNR is enough to create that perception in the minds of people who are protected by shield. That perception shapes the beliefs and behavior of people right now.

This post was edited by Kayeto on Aug 27 2020 10:38am

Let's also include that in Ferguson we have the word of the prosecutor later that he intentionally flubbed the case to avoid having the officer charged, and we have people who were on the grand jury who confirmed he asked for charges on every single case that day except the case with the officer, where he only asked "them to make up their own minds".

And as the evidence shows, that was a perversion of our justice system, innocent people who got charged to sate an unruly mob despite the evidence clearly exonerating them
Its a tale so old its biblical.