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To: precisionshootist
The responsibility for this mans death resides solely with the police. The warrant is irrelevant. Lethal force was not justified, no question.

I didn't say that the force was justified.

I did say that if the Wright didn't resist, then he most likely would have been alive today.

Those are two separate ideas. You shouldn't conflate them.

94 posted on 04/14/2021 7:29:46 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign
" The responsibility for this mans death resides solely with the police. The warrant is irrelevant. Lethal force was not justified, no question. I didn't say that the force was justified. I did say that if the Wright didn't resist, then he most likely would have been alive today. Those are two separate ideas. You shouldn't conflate them. "

I agree he certainly had a better chance had he not been fighting with the officers. That being said when you see the video it's clear this was an AD that could have occurred at any moment even if he did not resist. The officer had her weapon deployed and her finger on the trigger. The AD could have still occurred in any number of ways. The question to me is why deploy her firearm to begin with?

The problem I see is that many people believe that lethal force was justified simply because this guy resisted and had a warrant. In other words the criteria is warrant, resisting arrest, attempt to flee, bang, dead, good shoot.

Way to large of a swath of the public see's this as okay and that is a big part of the problem. It's not ok, not even close.

96 posted on 04/14/2021 8:27:29 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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