IMO none of that has to do with anything ...........the only thing that matters here, IMO, is what transpired in the last 22 seconds of him being alive...
People do bad things.............the issue here are we talking about another incident of LE murdering folks cause they have a badge.............
The skin color of the officer is IMO another thing that media has dragged into this ...........irrelvant as well IMO
The issues here are
Why has media ignored why was LE messing with a human being sitting in a car , with a joint, big deal, he had medical issues and society has proved it has medcial values - but that too is irreleavant
Why did LE confuse who they were there for , cause they were looking for a black man ?
6.2 million folks that are not supposed to have guns do.....................
His criminal history has nothing to do with the big picture problem we have with LE and minorties - that is a huge social issue.........
..the media throwing all this other stuff into the narrative...derails the conversation that needs to be addressed .......................
Why is he dead -----------that is the question............the only one............. moo
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the only thing that matters here, IMO, is what transpired in the last 22 seconds of him being alive..."
Sorry, but respectfully I have to totally disagree with that ^^ statement. It is not all about that 22 seconds. Not at all...
It is all about the previous years and previous bad choices.
If he was not a convicted felon, then it would not be such an urgent, desperate situation that he was in when the cops tried to detain him. If it weren't for some previous issues, then having a joint would not be a big deal at all. Nor would having a gun in his parked car. It would be dealt with, plead out in smaller charges or dropped all together...
But
because of many previous poor choices, he was now faced with a desperate situation. He was looking at doing some prison time because of an illegal stolen weapon and drug possession and it amped up the situation to a heightened degree.
It was not just about the previous 22 seconds. If it was, then he could have just laid down the weapon from the start of the whole thing.
You ask 'why is he dead?' I say it is because of years of making poor decisions--- Going up right to that very day. When he decides to meet his 9 yr old son after school, he decided to smoke a blunt in the car
at the school bus stop. Very poor decision, on many levels. Then decides to put on his ankle holster and take
a loaded stolen weapon along with him. Another very poor decision.
I could go on, but you get the idea. These choices were not made in that brief 22 second span. They built up to that perfect storm. But you cannot detach his previous life choices from his final moments because it all fits together in a tragic ending.
So the question, 'why is he dead', has several layers . But mostly it is because he made some very dangerous decisions which set up a desperate and volatile situation.
