If he was reaching for a lethal weapon or appeared to be reaching for one, then yes he should've been shot dead in that instance.

the cops are encouraging it.. videos of them giving this actual kid water and saying "we appreciate you guys" the Sheriff wouldn't comment on a press question of do they want them back IE vigilante's..
so many fucking bootlikers running around thsi country both my grandfathers are rolling in their graves.

You can literally use that bullshit line to murder anyone you want, we watched it happen fully recorded to philandro castile.

Philandro Castile was wrongly killed and he wasn't resisting arrest. I don't see the comparison. Blake was tased (to no avail), wrestled (to no avail), and then went to his vehicle where a weapon was located all while resisting arrest. Completely different circumstances.

Police can always just say "I thought he was reaching for a weapon" if they do anything but sit perfectly still with their hands in the air.

"Let me see your wallet"
"Okay"
*bang bang*
"I thought he was reaching for a weapon"

Those hypothetical instances where a cop tells someone to reach for something and they still shoot them would be murders. This instance 100% wasn't the case.

This instance wasn't, but if you give the police broad leeway to interpret "looked like he was reaching for a weapon" then most actions fall under this, even complying with orders.

In an instance where they would be complying with an officer, I would definitely be on your side for those cases. I'm not sure how a situation like this could be prevented 100% of the time or ensure accountability to the officers 100% of the time, but the best option currently would to require all law enforcement to wear body cams at all times. Unfortunately, there are departments across the US right now that can't afford them. There are probably better methods that make more sense fiscally, but I'm not sure what those would be. Until something is found, the only option I see currently is increasing police funding for body cams and definitely more training/better hiring screening/frequent psych and wellness evals/etc.

The cop that killed philandro castile walked.
The problem black folks have is all of these cops walk, hence why they are trying to tell people their lives matter too..
When a cop kills a white woman like justine damond he goes to jail and his partner testifies against him.

This post was edited by Plaguefear on Aug 27 2020 11:15pm

Video won't do anything without a system willing to hold the police to account.

Currently the prosecutors that charge the police are also the prosecutors that work with the police to charge suspects apprehended by the police. It's pretty easy to see how getting a fair trial there would be impossible.
The judiciary has also created some pretty ludicrous rules as well, such as qualified immunity, that severely restrict police accountability.
And then there's the fact that there's a straight line from the police administrations that abused minorities during Jim Crow, then during the drug war, to today.
And there's the fact that police officers have a shittier job than they should. We really should defund the police and allocate the newly freed funding to other services such as mental health workers so they can respond where the police aren't needed. The police shouldn't be expected to respond to everything from an armed robbery to John's autistic kid freaking out for the third time this week.

Anyway, the best part of these riots is people are taking these problems seriously now. It's not just seen as an attack on the police to want to fix these problems.