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That reaction by his mom was like Ricky from Boyz n the Hood.. tragic as hell breh
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If you have a weapon in hand and approach the police they're going to fire. A person in my city was killed by the police years ago because he walked towards them with a screwdriver. The problem with all this shyt is that the public doesn't know enough about police training even though you can find most of it on YouTube. Mythbusters even did an episode about the "Tueller Drill" which is that someone wielding a knife needs 1.5 seconds to cover 21 feet. If you carry concealed and get actual training they cover all that stuff too. These videos always be giving half-info though:shaq2:

Police fatally shoot man in West Philly
by Ellie Rushing and Anna Orso, Updated: October 26, 2020 - 6:51 PM



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The scene on the 6100 block of Locust Street Oct. 26, 2020, after police officers fatally shot a 27-year-old man during a confrontation. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital





Police officers fatally shot a 27-year-old man during a confrontation Monday afternoon in West Philadelphia.

Shortly before 4 p.m., two officers fired their guns at the man in the 6100 block of Locust Street. Police then transported the man to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw arrived at the scene as a crowd was yelling at police.

Witnesses at the scene say the man was armed with a knife but was not charging the police. A video from a bystander showed the man was at least 10 feet away from the officers when they began shooting. He was walking toward the officers and they were backing away from him when they fired.

Police spokesperson Sgt. Eric Gripp said police were called to the block and encountered a man who was holding a knife. Gripp said the man was in the company of at least one other person and “they appeared to be in some sort of altercation.”

Gripp said officers ordered the man to drop the knife, then the man “advanced towards the officers.” Gripp did not elaborate on what was meant by “advanced” but said investigators are reviewing footage of what happened.

He said both officers fired “several times.” After the man was shot, he fell to the ground, and Gripp said one of the officers then put the man in a police vehicle and drove him to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.

Police did not release the name of the 27-year-old Black man. They did not say where he lived, other than noting he appears to be “local.”

Gripp said it was unclear how many times the man was shot or where in his body he was struck. He said both officers were wearing body cameras and were taken off street duty pending the investigation.

The officers fired possibly a dozen or more times, according to an account by one witness. Police marked the crime scene with at least 13 evidence markers.

Around 6:30 p.m. police reopened the street and the crowd had largely dispersed.

Maurice Holloway was on the street talking to his aunt when he saw police arrive. The man with the knife was standing on the porch of his home, he said, and officers immediately drew their guns.

The man’s mother was with him and chased after him as he walked down the steps of his porch, still holding the knife. His mother tried to shield him, Holloway said, and tell police he was her son and to put the guns down.

“I’m yelling, ‘put down the gun, put down the gun,’ and everyone is saying, ‘don’t shoot him, he’s gonna put it down, we know him,’” said Holloway, 35.

The mother tried to grab her son, but he brushed her off and walked behind a car before emerging again, Holloway said.

“He turns and then you hear the shots,” Holloway said.

“They were too far from him,” he said, “it was so many shots."

The man’s mother screamed and swung at police as she ran to her son. Holloway said he ran to their side to try and help.

Two hours after the incident, his sweat pants were still stained with the man’s blood.

Arnett Woodall, a community organizer who lives a few blocks away, came to the scene shortly after the incident. He said he immediately saw how many markers were in the street and felt it was “a textbook example of excessive force.”

Then he saw the video."Why not a warning shot?" Woodall, 56, asked. “Why not a Taser? Why not a shot in the leg?”

He said the incident shows why police must implement stronger community policing protocols and why the city should invest in town watch programs so communities can police themselves.

“The city of Philadelphia,” he said, “can do better.”

District Attorney Larry Krasner said in a statement Monday evening: “The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office takes its obligation to try to be fair and to seek evenhanded justice seriously. The DAO Special Investigations Unit responded to today’s fatal shooting of a civilian by police shortly after it occurred, and has been on scene with other DAO personnel since that time investigating, as we do jointly with the PPD Officer-Involved Shooting Investigation Unit, in shootings and fatalities by other means involving police."

Krasner added, “We intend to go where the facts and law lead us and to do so carefully, without rushing to judgment and without bias of any kind. People who witnessed this incident or have information they believe to be relevant to this investigation are encouraged to contact the District Attorney’s Office Special Investigations Unit hotline: 215-686-9608.

”In the hours and days following this shooting, we ask Philadelphians to come together to uphold people’s freedom to express themselves peacefully and to reject violence of any kind."
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Dying in front of your mother, what a way to go out. Mom's first instinct was to cry out and attack them physically, because that's what mother's do no matter the species. She'll need therapy for the rest of her life. Black men being murdered by the hands of white men in front of their mothers, wives and children is an American past time. The only justice is if the two of em get murked in front of their mothers. I would understand perfectly if his mother went rogue.​
 
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Oatmeal said:
If you have a weapon in hand and approach the police they're going to fire. A person in my city was killed by the police years ago because he walked towards them with a screwdriver. The problem with all this shyt is that the public doesn't know enough about police training even though you can find most of it on YouTube. Mythbusters even did an episode about the "Tueller Drill" which is that someone wielding a knife needs 1.5 seconds to cover 21 feet. If you carry concealed and get actual training they cover all that stuff too. These videos always be giving half-info though:shaq2:
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Yup. There was a gif someone posted here once that illustrated this perfectly. Can’t find it so here are a couple videos:







Approaching someone with their guns drawn wielding a knife is extremely dumb. Whether you realize it or not, you pose a grave threat so you should expect to be met by deadly force. :francis:
 
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