Posted on 09/03/2020 8:37:03 AM PDT by Starman417
Imagine that Jesus was in Kenosha last week when Jacob Blake, a man with a warrant out on him for criminal trespassing, domestic abuse and sexual assault, began threatening the very person he had previously abused. In order to keep things from getting out of hand he might have given Mr. Blake a heart attack. He might have turned Mr. Blake into The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Or he might have had Mr. Blake pull a hamstring so that he ended up wreathing on the ground not being able to move. But none of those things happened and the truth is, I’ve no idea what the Lord would have done had he been responding to the 911 call. But I know what the police did… They shot Mr. Blake.
There is of course a bit more to the story. They didn’t just show up and start shooting. No, apparently they tried talking to him, but that didn’t work. They tazed him, twice. That didn’t work. They tried to physically restrain him. That didn’t work… at one point apparently he even had one of the three police in a headlock! They eventually pulled their guns on him and told him to stop moving. Even that didn’t work. So when he reached inside his car after being told again to stop and didn’t, they shot him.
Just as I don’t know what Jesus would have done with the 911 call, I don’t have any idea what he would have done in reaction to the shooting… but I do know what the leftist BLM and Antifa mobs did… they rioted, of course.
While we can’t know what Jesus would have done had he responded to that 911 call, we can ask what exactly would most Americans, black or white do if they were in the shoes of the policeman? You have a known violent criminal who has been fighting with you, who was not fazed by a Taser, who was noncompliant in the face of police pointing guns at him commanding him to stop, who continues to defy them and reaches into his car… The police, observing this behavior, not knowing what Blake was reaching for, possibly a gun, had to decide in an instant. Had it been a gun Blake was going for, not only could he have shot one or more of the police, he might have accidentally shot one of his 3 small children sitting in the back seat or some innocent bystanders. What would you have done?
Should the police have waited until Blake emerged from the car with a gun pointed at them or until he had already started firing? Is that the standard we expect for police now? Wait until a criminal points a gun at you and shoots before you fire? Maybe they should they have used less lethal force instead? Like what? They tried physically restraining him and by using a Taser on him, twice! Neither worked. Should they have tried a net like gladiators used to use? Blake was undaunted and violent… so expecting him to reach into his car and pull out a candy bar or some flowers wasn’t exactly rational. The police expected something violent and fired before someone other than the criminal got hurt. What is the right alternative in this circumstance that would have guaranteed no one else – or even Jacob Blake – was hurt?
“But they didn’t have to shoot him 7 times!” or “They didn’t know what he was reaching for at the time… it could have been his keys!” Because… yeah... It’s one thing to play the Monday morning quarterback and say what should have been done or not done after the fact, but in the heat of battle… and make no mistake, for those involved that’s exactly what this was, what was the right answer in that split second, at that moment when the lives of at least three police officers, three children, numerous civilians and the suspect were on the line? Sure, someone might say, hey that’s not fair to ask us, we’re not trained to know what to do in situations like that, but the police are. That’s true… but it was clear they tried all those things they were trained to do and nothing seemed to stop Blake… but that doesn’t seem to have mattered to the rioters.
So where does appear to leave America in 2020? Do facts not matter any longer? Do circumstances not matter? Is everything literally black and white as in black vs. white? How does this comport with Martin Luther King’s hope that people would be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin? All anyone knew in the hours after the shooting was that a black man was shot by white cops… Full stop. Period. Yet, chaos and violence ensued.
In today’s world of identity politics and the cult of victimization the facts no longer matter.
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Jesus sends about 140,000 people to hell daily for much less than what Blake did.
Actually they send themselves there.
Don’t lecture Christians on what Jesus would or should do atheists!
Called for lightning to strike him seven times and the earth to open up and devour him and close back up with a faint whiff of sulfur in the air.
I’d have shot him before he rounded the front of the car - in the leg.
But I’m a private citizen. I have more latitude than the cops do.
Jesus would have cast the demons out of Jason Blake
I enjoyed this article more for all the details, not so much the WWJD aspect. I didn’t know he was tased twice! And the guy still didn’t cooperate.
Jesus would have looked into the mans heart and either passed on by or healed him of an evil spirit. I believe Jesus passed many by who were not redeemable.
The premise is wrong. The final sentence shows the author is unaware of the attempted marxist takeover of these United States
There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
2And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?
3I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
4Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?
5I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
In Massachusetts a young police office was killed because he hesitated for a moment. The criminal grabbed his gun and shot him. He also shot a woman who was looking out her window when this was happening. Both were killed. Of course he already had a police record.
Some years before another police officer was killed with his own gun in his office. Again the criminal grabbed the officers gun and turned it on him. He was in the supposed security of his own office but that did not keep him safe.
The young criminal was being questioned in the murder of an elderly woman. He jumped out of a window and ran away after shooting the officer. Other police gave chase and caught him. The next day he was brought into court with a spit mask covering his face which was bruised. His mama was sitting in the court room and upon see him cried out “Poleece brutality”. You did a good job of raising your son mama and his father too wherever or whoever he may be.
Helped and healed the victims, what else?
These days you cannot know the soup of various drugs he may have imbibed.
With 4 cops at my side?
Said “get him!” and clubbed him to the ground long before he got to the vehicle
Yeah
Why do at least half of these articles written by people supposedly on the right leave out the fact that he was armed with a knife. Unless it was doctored video, the officers can clearly be heard saying drop the knife.That’s why they drew their weapons.
God loves all of us, but he allows our free will to choose our actions. Some actions are evil and some are righteous.
We will be held accountable for our actions.
Mob reaction can be peaceful and righteous, or it can be evil and destructive. The righteous action should not allow a peaceful reaction to turn violent and evil.
The true evil is the political and civil leaders that do not stop the evil and allow riots and destruction to continue.
We live in a sinful and evil world (not all participate, Thank God) and we need to continue to lead a righteous life by doing God’s will and be willing to suffer the consequences of evil in this world by enduring or attempting to change our ways and create a better world for all.
We need to realize that the democrat party is evil and leading the USA to destruction and not controlling the evil ways. The DP may have done a little good in the past, but they have destroyed the black family, killed the unborm babies, thrown out God, wasted money, support the criminals and illegals, attempt to destroy our freedoms of speech, religion, guns, safety, etc.
We pray to God for his protection and guidance to select the right leaders that will support justice and moral fairness for all.
The money quote: ”They didn’t know what he was reaching for at the time… ”
That is rather the point.
The officers *didn’t* know. Under these facts, noncompliance despite repeated commands *requires* the escalation of force. It’s not a matter of *allows*, it becomes a public safety *mandate*. There is no sane argument to be made in favor of waiting around to see if the perp was just reaching for his Altoids.
The author didn’t.
How do you know the author is an atheist?
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