Reply #43: I saw the video. HE WAS SURROUNDED!

[sojourner]

And the knife, unfortunately, was visible. He was just waving his arms in a sort of sweeping circular movement that looked very awkward and very unpracticed. He was not a regular thug, it was easy to see. But that's just me...a citizen who possesses and tries to USE discrimination and insight in my everyday life.

I know that policemen are such a special breed and a special kind of person that they can't be bothered to think, or they'd die needless deaths. And that is always a tragedy....I realize and recognize that.

But somehow the deaths of citizens at the hand of the police is not likewise considered "needless" or "tragic".

God knows, it's far better that we kill those in our society who behave badly than to take any effort to preserve their lives....after all it's JUST one person's welfare balanced against the welfare of ALL those other people in the neighborhood and the lives of all those policemen surrounding him. God knows, for them to go against their training and to try to preserve that lousy man's life would surely mess up the whole goddamn system. God knows that it would lead straight to a complete meltdown of our very society! Makes me wonder why we even bother with the whole "criminal justice" system. Just shoot the bastards dead and let the rest of it sort itself out. Save a buncha money and make it incredibly unappetizing to commit a crime, while giving cops zero necessity of life-threatening cognitive activity.