Originally Posted by Ghostinthemachine
Cop wasn't fuggin around.

Cops aren't allowed to run away when someone draws a knife and advances towards them. If it happens when the distance is already close, they really have no choice but to shoot, as would be the case for anyone else who's carrying a handgun.

I think blacks have swallowed a cultural programming that tells them to become sacrificial lambs to the narrative that black men are being shot by police in huge and unwarranted numbers, and that it needs to stop. So, to advance that narrative, they escalate ordinary contacts with police into justifications for police to shoot them.