sportjunkie07

Defending people and property.. check. Offering ems help... check. Successfully defending himself from mutiple attacks and cleaning up the garbage rioting in our cities.. check. Doing these needed things when everyone else is scared to.. check. Sounds like a hero to me. I don't know if he is a white supremacist but regardless his actions were commendable here.

He wasn't reaching in the car to grab lollipops for the officers.

Blake fought the police and went to his car to get something against police orders while at gunpoint. Open and shut case. Don't do that and you won't get shot. Put others in danger, violently resist arrest, and try to take it further and these things happen. It's that simple.

Beaumont, port Arthur, lake Charles, and Cameron will be wiped off the map. gonna hit some refineries really hard too. People in those cities will die. These storms all have their own characteristics. This one is a lot different than Harvey or Ike. Its big and mean and all you can really do is get out of the way and pick up the pieces afterwards.

Roger. Economy sucks for sure. didnt trump sign something for 400 extra assistance per week? Now I’m hearing 300.

I mean it’s a large part of the reason. Why work and risk covid when you’ll make more doing nothing? but the economy and job losses are way worse than the trump says for sure.

Very interesting that one.

He gives great speeches though.

NO. ~ TK

i disagree with your entire post outside of id being OK with entertaining different types of training. 1.) There is a an exponentially longer list of "follow orders and live" where it simply is the case. 2.) Failing to comply immediately is not a death sentence, but in certain situations it can lead to that. use your brain. Forcefully resisting arrest and committing multiple felonies along the way.. or escalating force with a weapon often results in death. And it should, because the perpetrator is putting the lives of the police officers and others in danger. It's no secret that the media is left controlled, and they only champion the storylines that support the agenda that they are trying to push. Brooks didnt deserve to be shot, right? Just watch this video on how personable brooks is. he has just made mistakes and wants to be a good father, but struggles with having enough time to make money to support his family. it's a relatable struggle that a lot of Americans have. Right? Then in reality we see him wasted in a parking lot on his daughter's birthday. we learn that he has had altercations with police before and he was in jail for beating his wife and abusing his children. Just ask yourself, who has the most to gain from racial division nowadays? The media and democratic party propose that white cops are out to get ya and that it is so difficult for blacks in America due to systemic racism. They pander for this movement and dress up in African garb and kneel for BLM, then turnaround and tell them they arent black if they dont vote democratic! They shine the shoes of black people and give them hugs (i mean wtf). Get on your knees and apologize now for being a superior race and having white privilege!... it's all a lie and reeks of moral superiority. Pushing racism keeps society divided and distracts people from the actual factors that are leading to struggle in black communities (factors that apply to other poorer demographics as well), and keeps blacks feeling inferior to others and indebted to leftist government. There will always be some division among people of different races; in fact it's pretty natural. But we've come a long way in America and systemic racism is practically nonexistent (affirmative action notwithstanding). Someone has to tell the truth about it because everyone is too afraid to offend someone and be called a racist; it's disgusting. Wake up, you're being played!

Almost every time you follow orders you live. There are cases of it not happening both white and black. It is unfortunate, and people make mistakes. It would be nice if we had better training and could hire better police officers but that is not the case. ive been fairly and truthfully discussing this since I first popped into this thread. No one seems to want to discuss the truth though, they want to push a political agenda that black people have it harder than anyone else and that every shooting is race based. what they are doing in reality is hurting their own race, advancing racist groups like BLM, and championing a lack of accountability, which ironically will make it more difficult for the average black person to succeed in the long run. It’s very sad.

And plenty of white people have been shot in such scenarios as well. dylan roof is also a scumbag and should already be in the grave, but he surrendered peacefully while brooks didn’t. it’s that simple.

I’m sorry that the truth hurts your feelings.

So he could be barricaded in a house still desperate to not go to jail, except this time with a firearm and innocent family members and bystanders? great idea. You should be the chief of police.

It doesn't matter. The dude just held his own vs the cops in a 2 on 1 and stole one of their weapons. The weapon isn't supposed to be lethal but it has killed people and can definitely incapacitate. things can turn really ugly really quick with a desperate man not thinking correctly, intoxicated, and not wanting to go to jail. If you don't want to get shot maybe don't do things that make police officers feel they need to increase their use of force.

He chose to fight police officers and stole and fired a weapon at a police officer after endangering others by drunk driving. It seems he didn't want to go to back to jail because he was on probation. (For wife and child beating) None of that is the cops fault. It was this idiots fault. You can lie to yourself and act like this dude was innocent but he clearly wasnt. You can also pretend like he wasn't a threat to others but he clearly was. If he didn't resist arrest and escalate the situation he would be in jail but alive today. There is risk as a police officer by letting drunk people go. Car and body cams record what people do and they have massive liability from a protection and moral POV. It still happens but is rare.

If you want more highly educated and highly trained officers, defunding the police is not going to help. Brooks committed several crimes and was a threat to himself and others. The police did nothing wrong. If you don't see this you are part of the problem. I feel bad for his family for losing a loved one but the silver lining is that they can can chose to not to be scumbags, be accountable for their actions, and won't get killed in the process.

Getting this odd feeling like ether is absolutely primed for takeoff. Which means I'm probably wrong. Will be interesting to see how things play out with all the updates over the next several months.

Unfortunately that is not the way it works. committed a crime, resisted arrest and fought with a police officer, stole a weapon, and meant to inflict harm with said weapon. these things happen in a heartbeat and you only have time to react. Not doing so can cause the police officers and bystanders harm and there is zero guarantee that the criminal will run away. this situation is entirely different from the George Floyd case and should be treated as such.

Looks like the cops at Wendy’s did their jobs well. shoot to injure is one of the more ignorant things you can do. Joe Biden agrees with you though.

The bulk of us media is leftist. They have been championing protesting. This does not fit their previous narrative of stay at home forever and wear a mask while you sleep or you will be the cause of a butterfly effect that wipes out humanity. It's not convenient or logical to talk about right now. It will come back when we have a second wave and trump will be to blame. Lots of blaming on both sides and no one wants to work together for a good solution. The American people suffer in the meantime.

Protesting about race cures covid... who knew it would be that easy.

Seems we have to spend our way out of economic crisis nowadays. Maybe we go the route of massive nationalization of economic sectors. One major problem with our economy is that we are passing the buck down the line. We did it 2001, we did it in 08’ and we are doing it again now. economic recessions are natural. It allows the most efficient business to develop and the poorly managed ones to fail. We haven’t allowed this and you will see in the upcoming months the result. Everyone is going to want to be bailed out. just like in 08 I feel the same way. Let them all die. It will only get worse if we push it down the line or we’ll end up with a comatose Japanese economy for 30 years.

I have a new born. I consider him a high risk candidate for things like this even though it doesn’t seem to target children. I have an elderly family member as well that is prone to sickness. For these reasons I took and still take extra precaution around them. but that shouldn’t necessarily be the case for everyone and I’m not going to judge others for feeling they have to work or get out of their house to provide for themselves and their families. ive also seen how these sicknesses get hyped up by media before, and both political sides have gone out of their way to influence the media to their own agenda. It’s disgusting quite frankly and makes it difficult to understand what the real statistics are. What we are doing as a country is giving in to blind fear. Untold deaths from cancers and other progressive diseases will be a result. We are forcing people to stay at homes and wreck themselves financially, becoming more dependent on the government and a faulty economic system. the government is going to have to bailout the entire country on a state level. you wanna stay at home, are you very risk averse or more prone to sickness? You do you..but be aware of the liberty you are losing and don’t attempt to force me to follow suit.

It's really not that big of a deal unless you are an at risk person. In which case you should quarantine yourself. This isn't rocket science people.