Posted on 03/04/2023 10:50:08 AM PST by grundle
A New Jersey community is outraged after anti-gun violence advocate Najee Seabrooks was fatally shot by police during a mental health crisis on Friday (March 3). The tragic incident unfolded around 12:30 p.m. at Seabrooks’ Paterson complex, where police say he was barricaded inside his apartment unit.
Authorities said their Emergency Response Team responded to an attempt to negotiate with the beloved father, who was considered an “emotionally disturbed person,” according to NorthJersey.com. However, after a five-hour standoff, they claim that Seabrooks let them into his home and charged at officers with a knife. Mason Maher, president of the Paterson Superior Officers police union, confirmed that two members of the force fired their weapons. He was pronounced dead at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center.
“No one is taking any pleasure in what happened,” said Maher. He added “this is being investigated by the attorney general’s office.” The beloved father’s death struck a visceral nerve within his community, where he was a member of the Paterson Healing Collective, which is a part of the New Jersey Violence Intervention and Prevention Coalition. The coalition said that Seabrooks’ death is a reminder of the need for expanded mental health resources.
“It is deeply distressing to hear that, in the midst of a mental health crisis, Najee’s team, his family, was not allowed to do the work they were trained to do. When he needed his community the most, he was denied the help he required, and the police response failed him,” said the coalition in a statement.
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Mental health crisis. The sign of anti gunners everywhere
“ If this activist was against gun violence, then why did he charge at the police with a knife, thus prompting the police to shoot and kill him? ”
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Well, to be fair, he apparently never said he was against KNIFE VIOLENCE.
Yup.
Violence is violence.
If you are opposed to *gun* violence because it’s violence, then you will be opposed to violence on principle.
If it’s because it involves guns, you are a gun grabbing control freak who is using the *violence* angle as a bludgeon to force others to accept your way of thinking.
The left think that the ‘beloved father’ should have been able to stab police officers to death while they stood there asking him not to- Evidently none of the police officers are ‘beloved fathers’
That statement made me chuckle.
Sadly though, that is how the left and minority groups think- They really believe that they don’t have to listen to police orders, and can do whatever they want and cops can’t react-
Thus the outcome.
Najee will stand before
The Prince of Peace.
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Najee got some splainin to do.
Did I summarize that correctly, based on the propaganda narrative.
Driven nuts by Climate Change and ESG and his Carbon Footprint.
Reading the except he was a doubly beloved father. He was ‘emotionally disturbed’ and suffered a ‘mental health crisis’ yet at the same time was a member of a ‘collective’ and a ‘coalition’ and apparently had a ‘team’. He apparently wasn’t, to use an old-fashioned word, normal.
Initially corrupted by Barack Obama.
SPJNK.
Najee Seabrooks:
A emotionally disturbed person, = collecting SSI
A member of the Paterson Healing Collective = Taxpayer grants
Jersey Violence Intervention and Prevention Coalition= more government grants.
Yes Najee Seabrooks supported by taxpayers like you and me.
Activist wanted to outlaw guns so he could kill people with knives
Good riddance
“The “beloved” Stabby man”
Um………Maybe if you don’t try to stab the police they will not shoot you. Duh ! The police do not have a job to receive abuse and Death And have every right to defend themselves with deadly force. And do not give me this crap about disproportional response.
I remember fifty or so years ago when a NJ cop said he was more afraid of a man with a knife because......”The knife is always loaded!”
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