No charge s in the Jacob Blake shooting

[ajax18]

Blake was not threatening the cops in any way and he shouldn't have been gunned down.

Really, so why didn't liberal Wisconsin charge the officers who shot him?

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

[Gunnar]

Blake was not threatening the cops in any way and he shouldn't have been gunned down.

Really, so why didn't liberal Wisconsin charge the officers who shot him?

I'm not going to argue that Jacob Blake was a completely innocent and admirable character or that the police had no legitimate cause to investigate or confront him. Nor am I denying that Blake could probably have prevented what happened to him by simply being less belligerent and more cooperative. But I still am not buying the argument that they had no better option than to shoot him 7 times in the back while he was bent over leaning into his car with his children sitting in the back seat.

[ajax18]

I'm not going to argue that Jacob Blake was a completely innocent and admirable character or that the police had no legitimate cause to investigate or confront him. Nor am I denying that Blake could probably have prevented what happened to him by simply being less belligerent and more cooperative.

First off thank you for being reasonable. Is it possible if the media had admitted this from the start they could have lowered the temperature enough to prevent the violence and property destruction that ensued in Kenosha?

But I still am not buying the argument that they had no better option than to shoot him 7 times in the back while he was bent over leaning into his car with his children sitting in the back seat.

I'm not sure about that either. But how could we be? I don't believe a video snippet is often enough information to make a broad judgment in the moment.

Gunnar what is your theory on why the police officers ultimately were not charged?

[Gunnar]

I'm not going to argue that Jacob Blake was a completely innocent and admirable character or that the police had no legitimate cause to investigate or confront him. Nor am I denying that Blake could probably have prevented what happened to him by simply being less belligerent and more cooperative.

First off thank you for being reasonable. Is it possible if the media had admitted this from the start they could have lowered the temperature enough to prevent the violence and property destruction that ensued in Kenosha?

Since I learned that only from the media, I don't think it is necessarily fair to imply that they had not admitted that. Maybe so, but I have doubts about it. In any case, I would agree that the violence and vandalism was wrong and served no good purpose.

But I still am not buying the argument that they had no better option than to shoot him 7 times in the back while he was bent over leaning into his car with his children sitting in the back seat.

I'm not sure about that either. But how could we be? I don't believe a video snippet is often enough information to make a broad judgment in the moment.

Gunnar what is your theory on why the police officers ultimately were not charged?

I can't dismiss the suspicion that there was at least some systemic racism involved, plus the still too pervasive reluctance to admit police misbehavior in general. The fact that Blake had brandished a knife against police in a similar case in 2010 probably weighed in their decision to not charge the officers, but he was successfully disarmed and subdued in the former case without having to shoot him, and I am not at all convinced that the situation could not have been better handled in the latter case.