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Are you freakin kidding me?

Friday, June 12 a white cop shot and killed a black man at a Wendy’s parking lot in Atlanta, Georgia. The investigation is ongoing, but the video clearly indicates that this shooting was unwarranted. No one disputes the known facts in this case. That being that the victim, Rayshard Brooks, was intoxicated, that he violently resisted arrest, that he took an officer’s taser, that he attempted to flee the scene during that attempt, that he shot the taser at an officer, that the officer fired his gun three times, that Rayshard Brooks was hit twice in the back, and died as a result.

From here, I can only give my opinion based on what I see through the videos and based on the reported facts. This person was not an immediate threat. He was not attacking the officers; he was trying to escape them. His initial crime of “sleeping while intoxicated in his vehicle” was not an indication that this person posed a violent threat to anyone. Sadly, the law will probably support the use of deadly force, but common sense will not support the lethal measure of response to the resistance displayed. “Let him go.” will be the thoughts of many who view the videos. Most will believe that a later attempt at arrest would not only be prudent in this case, but likely have a much different conclusion. There needs to be a reasonable judgement on the part of officers; that you don’t have to resort to deadly force just because you can. God gave you a brain for more than a narrow response to every obstruction you will encounter.

As we know them, the facts of the case are damning enough against the officer’s use of deadly force. What is also excessive is the use of words that falsely depict a narrative that the facts don’t support and that creates unwarranted anger and hostility. There is no evidence that this is a case of racial bias, it is more a case of very bad judgement and emotions out of control. It is another example that one person was given a gun and a badge who should not have either.

That being said, the left has an agenda to push, and in order to do that they will say anything… in any way… in order to keep the pot boiling over. For example, Marie Harf on FOX’s Outnumbered, Monday June 15, 2020, said this, “You should not be shot in the back for sleeping in your car drunk…”. To the listener you would get the impression that the police snuck up on Rayshard Brooks while he was sleeping in his car and shot him in the back. Bang, bang, bang, your dead! With that as a narrative who wouldn’t be enraged. Enraged enough to burn Wendy’s to the ground. Enraged enough to riot.

They do this not because they care about the unwarranted loss of life, but because they think that lying about how it happened will help their chances of winning back the White House in November. If they really cared about Rayshard and the many others killed by excessive force then they would not feel the need to embellish on the facts and they would put forth honest measures to help prevent it in the future.

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