John Chuckman
EXPANSION OF A COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN SCOOPY WEB
Cop Shot Jacob Blake After Hearing ‘Mother’s Desperate Plea’ That Blake Had Her ‘Kid,’ Report Says
Police Officer said he shot Blake “because he was afraid Blake, while attempting to flee the scene, was trying to kidnap a child in the backseat of the vehicle,”
We see this effort to excuse brutal behavior by a cop repeated on many Internet sites, almost resembling a heavy distribution of press releases from his lawyer.
What the father did before the shooting may well have been wrong, although you could not know that without investigation. But even if it was wrong, it wasn’t a capital offence for a man to try driving away with his own kid.
It happens somewhere almost daily with broken marriages and relationships.
It is always easy to find or to follow the man involved.
No one appointed a cop to be judge, jury, and executioner.
Shooting a man in the back? Multiple times?
What dedication to duty. What heroism.
In front of his kid?
My, what touching concern for the child’s welfare.
Such efforts to excuse a plainly vicious act tell us a great deal about the desperately confused place America has become.
