Jacob Blake may be alive and well at the moment but recent incidents clearly show the WORLD needs a new type of officer…
An officer who is compassionate, not overworked, considerate of street level individuals, and knows the area and locale.
We can’t have these random officers showing up at volatile and inflammatory domestic issues. Especially, if there’s going to be a potential “racial motive” involved every time!
We need more police officers from different ethnic backgrounds, diverse cultures, and more sensitivity training ALL-AROUND
We also need more education to the public so people understand that tasers, limb shots, and other incapacitating maneuvers aren’t always logical or applicable in situations like this.
The man who was shot (Jacob Blake) was obviously distressed/upset! Thankfully, he is still alive and well… Those children would have to grow up without a father, the officer who shot Blake would be lynched (maybe literally), and WE (the whole world) would have a very serious political/public/legal incident on our hands.
Have we all not learned ANYTHING from the George Floyd incident? I thought the one positive thing we took from that man’s death was that we were going to stop making everything about race. We were going to train cops to stop fearing street level individuals.
Race does not need to be involved in these conversations – However, every single news feed you read has to write Hispanic, Caucasian, Black, etc In front of not only the “criminals” and “victims” names…
No, no! Now we have the media and even the legal system getting hung up on an individuals race and/or ethnicity.
It’s almost like the color of our skin, food we eat, and music we listen to makes a difference in the legal system and in this world that is supposedly equal and free for all men and women… It’s ridiculous!
One must understand that cops have a hard time dealing with criminals nowadays because of all the political correctness and laws… That is no excuse to violently discharge your weapon every time something doesn’t go your way, Or every time someone doesn’t do “what you say”.
There is no need to involve race, culture, lifestyle, or creed into this conversation though- the officer who shot the man was fearful, inexperienced, and CLEARLY doesn’t have the required salt to deal with situations of this type. He would have shot Jacob Blake regardless of his skin color – IMO you can (almost) tell from body language and general stress levels, that officer had an itchy finger.
So, what happened?
Jacob Blake was allegedly attempting to intervene in a fight between 2 females who lived nearby, cops got called, when the cops arrived they wrongly assumed Blake was the instigator, the cops did their usual tough guy/authoritarian act, Jacob started walking away to check on his kids who were in the vehicle, the officers told him to comply and remain still. But, Jacob is probably worried for his children! Jacob continues to lean into the vehicle to possibly calm his children, the police having their weapons drawn kept yelling at Mr. Blake and the whole situation seemed chaotic. The police should have surrounded and contained instead of shooting… It’s obvious that the cop who shot Blake in the back made and EXTREMELY poor judgement call and luckily Mr. Blake was tough enough to pull through!
To move fast and aggressive like that, In the way Blake did, especially when a SCARED/nervous cop is pointing their weapon at you, is a VERY dangerous thing to do and anyone who comes from the streets should know this – however, being a young father (the same age as Jacob Blake actually) I understand that fearing for your children, Trump’s fearing for your own life ANYDAY! None of that gives the officer the excuse to shoot him in the back seven times.
This man never should have been shot… However, I can see how a scared and inexperienced officer could panic here – that being said the OFFICER’S (plural) were both made aware that Jacob’s children were infact inside of that vehicle and should have known better than to open fire.
Very unfortunate situation! But, God or some higher power must be looking out for this family, maybe we’ve had too much if this type of negative interaction among the human race and now with a surviving victim of one of these questionable police shootings, we may be able to piece together what the root of the problem is here… maybe law enforcement, legal system, education, and the general public can glean some useful information for training officers in the future – I don’t think this shooting was racially motivated though.
I do think the officer was scared of the victim here. I believe his fear led to his shooting the way he did, he was scared of the body language and the situation.
If you’re scared like that – you should NOT be on duty and you should NOT be going out on volatile calls like this one… There is no excuse to be that jumpy, No excuse to move to violence that fast, and there’s no excuse to fire on a 29-year-old’s father while his children are in the back of an SUV, in the middle of a suburb during a domestic house call, in the middle of the day.
Protests have already erupted, the #BLM movement will probably use this as fuel to spark another vigorous round of protesting, and of course Democratic and other far left political parties (Liberals here) Will no doubt use this as campaign fodder… Even though there was no death, rest assured almost every politician/activist/journalist will be talking about this.
Thanks,
Be safe,
EhMaritimeSecret
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