Nope, that’s exactly victim blaming.
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yeah it is… showing up at the door with a gun when someone is banging on your door shouldn’t result in one’s death. Let’s not forget that this is precisely WHY Breonna Taylor is dead, because the cops showed up, her boyfriend had a gun, and they used that as an excuse to open fire…
But hey, if ONLY people would be nicer to the cops, they wouldn’t regularly kill people, I guess… /s
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You don’t even have to come to the door. Atatiana Jefferson was shot through the window after arming herself - probably because someone was creeping around outside. Turns out “someone” was the cops, and one shot and killed her:
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Armed, unarmed - it hardly matters when it comes to ensure the racial order is maintained… That’s one of the major problems with policing, that it’s a byproduct of white supremacy and the elite class that benefits from it.
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Clearly the problem here was not enough good guys with guns.
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TBF, everyone Police kill is innocent, as they haven’t gone to trial yet.
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Um. . . This flies in the face of absolutely every single thing that right-wingers tell us about protecting the home.
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Or, ya know, don’t own a gun you can be shot with.
Again and again, the bodycam recordings defy that certainty.
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Bear in mind, the public narrative of this incident is being set by police. Maybe let’s wait until the bodycam footage is released before we take the bait that the homeowner did anything at all.
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Oh yeah, definitely. Neither case would surprise me. Regardless, at the end of the day the cops killed a guy who (likely) meant them no harm. That’s on them.
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no, you are not—you may have faith that police generally announce themselves, but that’s not the same thing as knowledge
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When I read about the wife opening fire I immediately pictured the actor Frances MacDormand blasting away but missing with every shot. Which is when I realised I was imagining the whole event as a scene in a Coen brothers film, not something that actually happened and had tragic consequences.
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These situations are often mishandled. How do the police approach an armed public. The police must assume every interaction is armed and they are threatened? Intelligence would help. Then again armed people meeting armed people, what is the point, let’s all shoot each other.
How about clarify what you mean? Do you think that the police should be able to operate with impunity, surveilling and abuse the rights of people they believe to be threats, which violates the 4th amendment?
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Police have all the advantages. They can be patient and wait the person they are seeking out. They don’t have to go in guns blazing. They can set up a perimeter, bring in new officers when the ones watching get tired. But they don’t. They would rather kill people, often innocent people, rather than be slightly inconvenienced.
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I think that the police often approach situations in a position of feeling threatened and respond by violence and intimidation. I think our loosening of gun laws creates all the more justification for their response.
