At no point did those cops need that guy’s help. It was to make things better on the streets... The knife was gone and the cop had his knee in the guys back but the guy kept his arms underneath his stomach.
The cop asked the guy videotaping to pull the arms out so they could handcuff him. There was no danger at any point.
If the cops thought that was good community outreach that’s fine.
But the sympathy and pity the black people had for a guy with a butcher’s knife who stole money and was on drugs was ridiculous.
If that was my neighborhood and it was an Italian guy with a knife on drugs and stealing I would tell the cops to beat him like a baby seal and I’d kick him in the stomach once myself.
Cuz he ain’t heavy and he ain’t my brother if he’s doing that.
Cop used the psychology of a bystander’s propensity to help in an emergency situation.
>>“Ya’ll ain’t gotta shoot him. He’s just got a knife.”<<
The bystander is very concerned with the well being of a violent thug, because the thug is black. THIS is a serious issue with the black community, as you point out.
“But the sympathy and pity the black people had for a guy with a butcher’s knife who stole money and was on drugs was ridiculous.”
Which i suspect is a big part of the BLM “movement”. Some in the black community want to be able steal, do hard drugs and generally break the law period. While collecting a government check to boot.