Leaping to conclutions – police shooting

[Michael Waldo]

First, my heart goes out to the family of Charleena Lyles. And I feel for the officers involved in the shooting. There has not been an investigation into the facts of the police shooting on Sunday yet. So I find it disturbing that the radical left is jumping up and down calling it unjustified and even murder.
Several mayoral candidates, quoted in the Seattle Times, are already calling it unjustified, murder and racist (McGinn, you should know better) and such. We need to chill out and wait for the investigation. How can you attack the policemen for defending themselves against someone with a knife? Have you already forgotten that three men tried to subdue one knife welding man on the Portland train and they had their throats slit and two died. Police training says someone within 21 feet of you with a knife is a deadly threat. But why didn’t they just back out of the apartment? And leave a mentally ill person with a knife alone with small children. If the children had been harmed, it would of been, “how come the police left her alone with the children”. We refuse to fully fund mental health services and ask the police to take care of pepople in crisis. And then criticize them for acting like police instead of therapists. Two weeks ago police were called to the same women’s place. She went before a mental health judge. She was allowed to go back to her place, with the children. A family member was quoted as saying her mental health had been deteriorating for sometime. If so, why weren’t the children removed, either by the “system” or her family? Anyway, before we attack the police for doing their job, lets look at the facts of this situation and the whole mental health system in this state as well.

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[newnative]

So, you’re doing the exact same thing that you claim the “radical left” is doing. Rushing to judgment before any investigation is done. Why don’t you follow your own advice and wait before commenting?

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[Michael Waldo]

Because the current narrative is overwhelmingly a rush to judgement against the policemen involved. I am trying to bring some balance.

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[mark47n]

By referring to the “radical left” in the manner that you are you are not bringing balance, at least not in the manner that you seem to intend.

I will add that what I find so frustrating is that the police are provided with all manner of physical protect and weaponry. They wear body armor, they carry batons, tasers and pepper spray in addition to their firearm. Why is it that the firearm is the go to? That is what I find alarming. Was there an attempt to talk her down, to deescalate the scene? I know that this is one of the things that police are trained to do but, given the number of police shootings, it not employed. It’s happening all over the country and the vast majority of shootings are white police officers and black victims.

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