Posted on 04/23/2021 1:23:32 PM PDT by blam
Teenagers have been involved in fights with knives for a very long time, activist and Black Lives Matter supporter Bree Newsome tweeted Tuesday.
“Teenagers have been having fights including fights involving knives for eons. We do not need police to address these situations by showing up to the scene & using a weapon against one of the teenagers. Y’all need help. I mean that sincerely,” she wrote:
Teenagers have been having fights including fights involving knives for eons. We do not need police to address these situations by showing up to the scene & using a weapon against one of the teenagers. Y’all need help. I mean that sincerely.
— DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES (@BreeNewsome) April 21, 2021
Newsome’s comments came after the Columbus Division of Police released bodycam footage showing the shooting Tuesday of a black teenager who appeared to be armed with a knife.
“The video appears to show the girl fighting with another girl as the officer opens fire,” Breitbart News reported, adding a knife was seen in the teen’s hand as she seemingly tried to stab the girl wearing pink.
#Columbus *potentially disturbing* Body cam. Suspect had a large knife and officers were responding to reports of a knife. pic.twitter.com/ddoXQKXxSf
— Shane B. Murphy (@shanermurph) April 21, 2021
During Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s the ReidOut, host Joy Reid spoke about the fatal police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, saying she remembered fights at school where a student had a knife “and teachers were able to diffuse that, and they didn’t have guns.”
In a subsequent post, Newsome said people “should be frightened that the ruling white elite have done such a thoroughly successful job of not only disconnecting us from the means of basic self-sufficiency but...
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knives are lethal weapons
and we dont allow fights with lethal weapons to occur because the people involved are “young people”
They should be allowed to cut each other shreds....
It’s pretty amusing watching some complete moron trying to set police policy.
The incident this week wasn’t a knife fight though. That would require both parties to have had knives. Only one had a knife, so it was a knife attack or attempted attack, not a knife fight.
Two knives, good. One knife, bad.
Black folks shall receive the equal protection of the law.
Equal protection of the law is not a choice or option, it is a Constitutional imperative.
These people should come with a switch so that sane people can turn their stupid off.
Fuqum. Remove all police from all blm neighborhoods, and put them in neighborhoods where humans live
Please please let her be knifed by someone because “its been going on forever” .
When I lived in Texas for a year in 1983 the joke was what does a Texan fear most? A Mexican with a gun or a black with a switchblade? Actually it was a Yankee with a UHaul.
dif·fuse
/dəˈfyo͞oz/
spread or cause to spread over a wide area or among a large number of people.
“technologies diffuse rapidly”
Eons, huh?
People really, really should educate themselves, really.
“The incident this week wasn’t a knife fight though. That would require both parties to have had knives. Only one had a knife, so it was a knife attack or attempted attack, not a knife fight.”
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Well, in this instant incident, appearances would suggest that the cop shot a Hutu attacking a Tutsi.
Cue Leonard Bernstein.
“We been knifing, cutting, shooting and killing ourselves for eons.
Leave us alone.”
I guess if you believe in the law of the jungle - that might makes right, then yeah, let them fight it out. If you believe in a civilized society, then you stop that.
What “black leadership” is saying - when in black neighborhoods, let them settle their own differences
Show up later to call an ambulance and gather evidence.
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