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CBC Chair Beatty: Police ‘Could Shoot in the Air’ and Teachers ‘Break Up Fights with Knives Every Day’
breitbart ^ | 24 Apr 2021 | IAN HANCHETT

Posted on 04/25/2021 2:41:26 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

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To: ETCM

Writing as a white person, I don’t think that as a whole, the white members of Congress represent the best or the brightest of the Caucasian “race”. In fact, many of them represent the very worst. So, this is probably also true of the CBC.


81 posted on 04/25/2021 3:56:15 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: JonPreston

Actually, it’s not the people IN the ghettos who don’t want the police. At least not the majority of them. But they aren’t helping by not ratting out the gang members who are causing the trouble.


82 posted on 04/25/2021 3:57:09 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“Me, too. No teacher is going to step between teenagers having a knife fight.”

Why not? This is a FABULOUS idea. It should be a law!


83 posted on 04/25/2021 3:58:12 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) argued that police officers “could shoot in the air”

Perhaps she could demonstrate the ingeniousness of this idea for us herself, by firing a gun in a fixture exactly 90.00 degrees in the air in a fixture on a calm day.


84 posted on 04/25/2021 4:00:54 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: Tired of Taxes
I watched that video (The Reno kid from 2016) and it looked to me like at least two and possibly three students were the focus of his knife waving.

I have been attacked by four people before, a one time thing when I was in the USN by drunk racist black sailors, not bullied or beaten up on an ongoing basis. But it affected me for some time, even though I was fortunate it didn't turn me against blacks, mostly because my petty officer in charge offered to get some guys to go with me to find the guys when I told him...and he was black. To this day, I have ever been grateful to Petty Officer Woods for that. It had important meaning to me.

As for this kid, in a day after day thing, where no adults are doing anything to help, this kid may have seen that as his only way out.

I did a search on that and found this explanation by the lawyer and father:

"...Lawyer David Houston said the boy is a special needs student who was bullied at school and that he may lose a lung or suffer brain damage from the shooting. m The father posted on Facebook on Wednesday night following the shooting, saying his 14-year-old son brought knives to school to defend himself..."

Now I know when people are shot, even known criminals, people seem to come out of the woodwork to defend them as "a nice kid", "turning his life around" and all that.

This just at a gut level seemed not to fit.

That said, the idiot Beatty has no idea what he is talking about. None. Disgraceful.

85 posted on 04/25/2021 4:02:18 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Gotta bee the Bee. Otherwise my head will fall off from shaking so hard...


86 posted on 04/25/2021 4:03:18 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: MarvinStinson
No win for the police,; how about the police set up no go zones and simply not respond at all to calls from these areas. If you have a problem, call your local MS-13 gang lord for help. Solve these problems yourself and enjoy the fruits of the defund the police movement.
87 posted on 04/25/2021 4:12:25 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: MarvinStinson

“Call out the Knife Response Team!”

“Mrs. Grundy is busy taking back library books.”

“Mrs. Grundy is our Knife Response Team? She uses a cane.”

“Like a samurai. She can give you a real hard whap.”

“Well, not if she’s stuck in the library. What’s our backup plan?”

“We all close our eyes and hope the stabber gets tired fast.”


88 posted on 04/25/2021 4:14:17 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Hambone 1934
You might let the black dems in congress understand it is ILLEGAL for cops to shoot in the air.....

I didn't know that. Guess I don't know everything.

But on old cowboy shows and movies they did it. Some plaster flecks fell from the saloon ceiling but the hombres took notice. Yessiree.

89 posted on 04/25/2021 4:17:41 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: MarvinStinson

I taught 25 years in NYC JHSs. Never once did I break up a knife fight. Though I did show one tough Puerto Rican 8th grader how to defend himself when a guy from a neighboring school threatened to knife him on the 7 Train.


90 posted on 04/25/2021 4:20:03 PM PDT by xkaydet65 ( )
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To: Responsibility2nd
I can’t decide. Is the Congressional Black Caucus more racist than they are stupid? Or does their stupidity outweigh their racism?

Funny

But to come to think of it, which is it?

91 posted on 04/25/2021 4:20:18 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Chengdu54
Urban teachers are specifically told not to break up any fight especially knife fights.

Yes, I heard that.

Must be so terrible to go to school now. Let alone risk your life and freedom to teach school.

92 posted on 04/25/2021 4:22:58 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: rlmorel

Yes, the father said the boy was bullied. The boy had just been punched. In the video, he’s bleeding from his mouth. I shared the video to show what happened to another teen with a knife, allegedly after he’d been bullied (as is claimed in the story of the 16yo girl whose family claims she was bullied). This boy was at school. No teacher tried to disarm him. No one shot in the air. The officer shot the boy. The video shows that people cannot easily disarm a teen with a knife. It also shows that white teens with knives also are shot by police.


93 posted on 04/25/2021 4:29:52 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: cranked

He could have shot the knife out of her hand. I’ve seen things like that in the movies.


94 posted on 04/25/2021 4:42:33 PM PDT by Vehmgericht (12)
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To: libstripper

This is vanilla range experience but I know if I am doing a rapid fire at 5m when my friend says stop I still get 2-3 rounds off before all the data is collected, processed and acted on.


95 posted on 04/25/2021 4:43:14 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (Count Rostov "The tyranny of indistinguishable days.")
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To: MarvinStinson

pink lives dont matter


96 posted on 04/25/2021 4:44:36 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: cranked

He could have shot the knife out of her hand. I’ve seen things like that in the movies.


97 posted on 04/25/2021 4:45:30 PM PDT by Vehmgericht (12)
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To: MarvinStinson

she sounds like biden: shoot her in the leg


98 posted on 04/25/2021 4:46:46 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: JonPreston

Yep, build a wall around those areas and let them create their cop-free utopia.


99 posted on 04/25/2021 4:52:19 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Psalm 8:9)
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100 posted on 04/25/2021 4:55:50 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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