Jesse Williams: “We know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people everyday.” Texas Tech University Police Officer Shot and Killed, Suspect Now In Custody A Texas Tech University police officer was shot and killed Monday night at campus police headquarters, causing the Lubbock, Texas, campus to be placed on lockdown for more than an hour. NBC News reports that incident started after officers responded to a call for a student “welfare check.” When the officers got to the room, they found drugs and drug paraphernalia, which prompted them to take the student to campus police headquarters. Link to tweet A spokesman for the school said in a statement, “During this time, the suspect pulled a gun and shot an officer in the head. The officer is deceased.” snip: The suspect, who has been identified as 19-year-old Hollis A. Daniels, was tackled by a campus police officer around 9:30 p.m. CT, near the Jones AT&T stadium. http://www.theroot.com/texas-tech-university-police-officer-shot-and-killed-s-1819304596 We have an armed, druggie white kid here, and the cop let his guard down long enough to be killed by him.
Good. Here's a case of disarming a black man: http://us.geosnews.com/p/us/mn/henn...-gun-toting-man-during-downtown-fight_6360303 A Minneapolis police officer disarmed and arrested a man who allegedly pointed a gun at another man when a fight broke out outside a downtown police station on Monday, authorities said. Diawain Adams, 21, of Brooklyn Park was charged with second-degree assault after authorities say he pulled a handgun from his waistband and started chasing another man near the corner of N. 1st Avenue and 4th...
And that's the heart of the matter. For every case where you hear of a person being shot by the police, there are dozens of incidents where the situation is de-escalated. There's roughly 800,000 police officers in America. You get that number of any grouping of people you can imagine...and you're going to find both the saint and the sinner with the vast majority somewhere in the middle.
Exactly correct. Unfortunately, we have some people who want to cherry-pick tragedies to further their political agendas.
Why do you want the cops to kill more people? Because it makes your hated towards them easier or you just want to see dead white people?
During my career, I arrested a lot of people armed with firearms and other weapons. Happens every day all across the nation.
