Yes, skateboard is a weapon in that situation if that’s how the scene played out. As in most of these cases without video, there is only one side to tell.
The Amish have taken up skateboarding?
Who could’ve guessed?
Raising the skateboard is likely display behavior; like a cat arching its back and hissing. Display behavior is intended to avoid a fight by appearing to be too tough to tackle. It’s the wrong response when facing a cop with a gun. The cop, especially now, must assume he’ll be beaten if he does not respond. Also, the cop is required to stop the theft. It’s part of the job.
Do these blacks who regularly commit crimes know that cops are the only ones keeping them alive? Because what happens when police are rare is that vigilante justice usually takes over, like in Venezuela, Mexico or Brazil and pretty much around the world where mobs will chase down a thief, surrounds them and then proceed to break every bone in their body with baseball bats, then they burn them alive. They even do it to women, I saw them do it to a woman in Venezuela who robbed a taxi driver. Do these black thugs *really* wants to “F tha Pohleese”?
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2368240&CategoryId=14091
http://www.inewsguyana.com/suspected-thief-beaten-to-death-after-allegedly-snatching-teachers-bag/
Or usually they just shoot them...........
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c1e_1368656060
Precisely. If you haven’t looked at a modern skateboard, they are quite large (think “lever arm” on a swing), and the metal trucks could give you quite the bashing.
This whole “unarmed” thing is supremely intellectually dishonest in so many ways. Micheal Brown of Ferguson was quite dangerous, at 6’-9” and 280#, despite not possessing a firearm. Which he was trying to obtain by taking officer Darren Wilson’s.
No idea if cops are telling the truth. Since the advent of video it has become apparent that they often don’t, so who knows.
resisting arrest can be a mortal error
Black jacks and saps should be standard equipment to be used on a resistor.
Article written so as to add fuel to the blacklivesmatter fire.
Aren’t the majority of #BLM protesters in the Pacific NW white or asian extract?
If so the rioting will be mostly symbolic.