You can debate the need to arrest, but creating a ruse that ends up with the man being shot several times?

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    Why is America so obsessed with shooting first?

    Last year we had an indigenous person kill a cop in Canada and then run into a field with his gun. Cops arrested him without shooting him, despite him killing a cop, and being in a group that police have dislike towards.

    Then, he complained about having pain, and the police called an ambulance to check him out before arresting him.

    I heard all of this live on police scanner.

    Do better, America. Holy shit.

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      Dont get all high and mighty. The United States is an amazing country! We have to deal with all this ‘woke justice’ every day bringing down our country. Once they are finally purged them we can finally have our fascist utopia rich straight white men will finally have all the power again, as demanded by the bible (which I hear is a great book, but honestly who has time to read these days)

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      Had they not pulled their ruse, most likely there would not have been an issue. This is a case where the cops were trying to be cute and someone ended up being shot.

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      Why is America so obsessed with shooting first?

      It is literally what our cops are taught in training. Look up “Killology” if you haven’t heard of it. And no, despite the ridiculous name, I’m not joking; that is what a big part of their training is actually called.

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      Go back to Reddit if you’re willing to write a paragraph about an article you didn’t read.

      “The shooting occurred after Roberts, who had a .22 revolver with him, pointed his weapon at the two plainclothes officers after they confronted his brother.”

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          Any American citizen should be within their right to pull a weapon on an average person who is threatening them or their community members. Plain clothes cops should maybe be in uniform if they don’t like that. It is every American citizen’s right to be armed.

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        Pointed, not fired. In the other posters example, the person killed a cop, and still was arrested without being shot. They’re asking why American cops can’t do that.

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        I don’t read fake news but did he point the gun on camera or this something police told us?

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          I’m guessing the body cam doesn’t show the 22 being pointed at the officers since the article specifies everything else it saw but not that.

          “The shooting occurred after Roberts, who had a .22 revolver with him, pointed his weapon at the two plainclothes officers after they confronted his brother. He did not fire, police body camera footage shows. After seeing Brooks Roberts’ gun, officers unleashed a storm of gunfire on him, the footage shows. Since Idaho is an open carry state, Roberts was within his rights to be holding the weapon.”

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          After seeing Brooks Roberts’ gun, officers unleashed a storm of gunfire on him, the footage shows.

          But if you accuse this of being fake news, wouldn’t the whole story be fake news? That’s confusing

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        This “go back to reddit” nonsense from all the kids (maybe you’re an adult, but it makes you seem like a kid) who read comments they don’t like is getting really tedious. Maybe you ought to go back to reddit?