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The cops would have likely known about his record from running the plate which would have heightened their anxiety as well. We know now from the evidence at the scene that he had been smoking a joint which might have been the "medicine" the wife was talking about. I used to dabble myself in my youth and remember certain sativa strains would make me paranoid as f***. It's part of the reason I quit. Add 7 cops and a traumatic brain injury to the equation and this guy was probably plain neurotic. Again, I don't think he was thinking rationally, if his intent was to kill cops he would not have rationally moved into the open like he did where he would be an open target(unless suicide by cop). I think he just freaked out because drugs on him, weapons charges, high as a kite, traumatic brain injury, etc.
I still don't think he deserved to die but I feel like he did put himself into the position that got him killed.
I'm bored so I will play devils advocate here. Exactly how did he put himself in the position that got him killed? He was sitting in a car minding his own business. Why were the police there in the first place? The original story from the police was that they were looking for a man with a warrant. Was Mr. Scott the man named in that warrant? No he was not, but he was black. Does that fact alone justify the police to show up with guns drawn, barking out contradictory orders? This is the main problem with this story. Every day in America thousands of blacks have the police accost them with guns drawn barking out orders. One cop yells "don't move!!!" Another cop yells "get on the ground!!!" Right there the man is already fucked. If he moves he gets blown away for moving. If he freezes, he gets blown away for not compying with the order to get on the ground. After the fact the police will show that the person that was blown away had a criminal record, even if it was an arrest for jay walking 30 years ago. The longer ago the conviction the bettor for the spin. The press will respond that he had a record "dating back 30 years", even if he has not been in any trouble since. I'm sure a few of us have spent a night in the slammer for one reason or another. The cops use the fact that drugs are found at the scene to jusify blowing someone away. I'm sure many of us has used illegal substances either in our past, or still do today. Does the fact that we possess illegal substances justify the cops blowing us away? Then there is the Holy Grail: a firearm. Possession of a firearm pretty much seals the deal and whitewashes the 100 rounds that cops put through someone. "HE HAS A GUN!!!!" Thats all we need to hear to turn our streets into the OK Corral. Never mind the fact that guns are LEGAL to own and carry . In the U.S. Millions of Americans carry guns. If I see someone carrying a gun, I don't give it a second thought. One day I was eating at a restaurant and I seen this guys pistol slipping out of his ankle holster. I was like: "hey buddy you need to secure your piece, its falling out" He said thanks and secured it. The world kept spinning. Now I know that there are huge differences in how you view firearm ownership in Canada, and how we view it in certain parts of the States. North Carolina is an open carry state. You do not have to conceal your firearm. People are used to seeing firearms. Its part of life there. The citizens of that state have to deal with it. They don't get to blow away someone for simply possessing a firearm. Why then do the cops get away with it? Why does the world quit spinning when a cop sees someone with a firearm? Why do they get to overreact and start shooting the place up?
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/cops-gun-dow ... g-firearm/Here we have a story from where I live. I remember it quite well. This man was a West Point grad. He was a veteran. He had an MBA from Duke. He was legally licensed to conceled carry firearms. His crime was his shirt rising up when he bent over to pick something up. Some nosy paranoid busybody seen his pistol and reported him. "HE HAS A GUN!!!!" Oh the horror!!!! The cops show up in typical swat form complete with helicopters, barking out orders, tuning my city into an occupied war zone. One cop yells to drop the gun. Another yells to get on the ground. If he touches the gun the cops will say he was going for it. He would have to touch the gun with his hand in order to put it down. The keystone cops put seven rounds through him. Then they confiscated the video from the store. That video was never to be seen again, ever. The cops claim it did not exist, or it mysteriously got erased. What was his crime? He was LEGALLY carrying. Some paranoid pussy (probably from one of our states that are terrified of guns) just had to make a big deal out of it. Once the call goes out "man with gun" all hell breaks loose. People (who we are told by the left) that should be the only people who should be legally allowed to posses handguns, show up on the scene and act like they are securing a village in Iraq.
Now this man was white. He had no criminal record. Because he was white, we had no riots. No looting, no pillaging. He was just another unfortunate victim of an incompetent, paranoid police department. Oh for sure we had the usual suspects saying that if only he had done what he was told to do by the cops that he would still be alive. Which order? Get on the ground or drop the gun? He was fucked from the moment the cops showed up. The cops steal the video and whitewash the shooting like they always do.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016 ... ed-driver/Here we have a story where a cop kills an unarmed black man with his personal AK-47. He then proceeds to plant a handgun in the victims car to cover his ass. It happens all the time. Many cops carry a throw away piece to cover their ass in a shooting gone wrong, or to plant on a suspect they want to take down. The public eats this shit up. Well he had a gun, he must be a scumbag. Lock him away and throw away the key. This guy in North Carolina was sitting in his car minding his own business. It was the cops who started this shit. 'We were looking for a guy with a warrant" Oh really? How come we haven't heard more about this guy? Who was he? What was he wanted for? If this guy was so dangerous, why did he fall off the radar screen? What crime was so heinous that the cops get to go around terrorizing whole neighborhoods and all the black men in them? The cops always claim they are looking for someone. Any black man in that neighborhood is susceptible to having armed men stick guns in their face and shout out orders. GET ON THE GROUND!!!! Once I would like to hear someone say "fuck you, I'm not getting my clothes dirty over this bullshit". This is what this is all about. Blacks are tired of being terrorized in their neighborhoods for being black in public. They are tired of always matching a description (because we know they all look alike right?
They are tired of having to explain themselves and having to comply with orders. They are tired of drawing heat for merely leaving their homes. This guy was sitting in a car. So what if he was smoking a joint? Who gives a shit? Why were the police fucking with him in the first place? These are the questions we should be asking. I am not condoning the looting and violence. Thats where I would not mind seeing some justified shootings. Anyone looting should be shot. Any one blocking an interstate highway should be ran over with a deuce and a half. That said we cannot shoot our way out of this problem. The cops need to quit fucking with people who are minding their own business. Anyone just sitting in a car minding his own business should never have to explain anything to a cop. Go respond to some calls from some people who actually want you around. Leave everyone else the fuck alone.