Second Guessing Gets Worse

Many of our readers predicted something like this years ago, and we agreed with them:

• Timothy Glaze Dean was shot and killed by Chicago police on January 3 of this year. Police body-camera video showed he was holding a knife at the time. Glaze Dean was shot 20 times, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday afternoon by an attorney for his estate, who said this is part of a longstanding pattern and practice of excessive force used by CPD.

  Police body-camera video showed officers exiting their vehicle, answering a wellbeing check call for Glaze Dean. An acquaintance was concerned about his mental state and said he was playing with a knife. The video showed police entering the Little Village apartment complex, traveling by elevator to the sixth floor and announcing themselves at Glaze Dean's door.

  A second later, Glaze Dean walks into frame with a knife in his hand. Two seconds after that, as he walks towards police, they open fire, shooting 20 rounds.

  Some bullets were fired after he was already on the ground without the knife and no longer a threat, according Glaze Dean family attorney Greg Kulis. The entire incident took less than two minutes from when officers exited their vehicle. "The police don't say, drop the knife. They don't say, police, put your hands up, drop the knife, step back," Kulis told the I-Team.

  Kulis said the body camera footage showed a lack of any attempt by police to deescalate the situation and points to what he calls a broader problem with CPD of excessive use of force, referencing both Laquan McDonald and Dexter Reed, who were shot 16 and 13 times, respectively, by Chicago Police and were killed.

First up, anyone who cites the Reed shooting in any capacity can be classified as a Grade A Moron. Reed shot first, shot a cop, and deserved every bit of lead Officers were able to fire at him. Fuck Reed, Fuck Channel 7 and Fuck this scumbag lawyer.

Second, anyone who views the video from the Dean shooting sees that he (A) had a knife, (B) brandished the knife in a threatening manner, and (C) advanced on the Officers in a tiny hallway. There was literally tenths-of-seconds to decide, draw and fire. Once the decision is made to utilize deadly force to meet an oncoming threat, there isn't a single order, ordinance or law that requires Officers to take a hit - any sort of a hit - before using said Deadly Force.

But these scumbag lawyers and whore media types want it to be:

1. observe the threat
2. give verbal direction
3. observe if there is any reaction to the verbal direction 
4. draw weapon
5. observe the threat
6. point weapon with additional verbal direction
7. observe if there is any reaction to the verbal direction 
8. fire one single bullet
9. repeat steps 1-thru-8

Now go dig up the footage of the Reed or Dean shootings and tell us exactly where all of this was supposed to take place?

Once again, we make this open ended offer to any scumbag lawyer or scumbag media type:

• we will provide you with a full set of CPD equipment - gunbelt, holster, OC spray, baton, handcuffs and bullet-resistant vest. We will steal a Taser from a friend. We will get you a pistol and three magazines fully loaded;
• we will print out a copy of the Use of Force Order and get Larritorious to explain it to you as he is the (allegedly) preeminent expert on CPD;
• we will set up an address for you to respond to via a radio call, someplace with multiple doors, narrow hallways, bad lighting, etc.
• you will be required to place us into handcuffs within the Rules, Regulations, current Ordinances and Illinois Law. You will do this without damaging us or suffering damage to yourselves;

But....:

• we might be armed....maybe a stick, a pipe, a blade, blunt instrument, maybe even a gun. You won't know until you get there and find us....because we'll be avoiding direct contact with you;
• if you use anything besides your winning personality, we win and you lose; 
• losing will involve some sort of forfeit on your part, probably something along the lines of a written/televised apology and admission that you don't know diddly-squat about police work and everything you've been spouting is just so much bullshit in service of the lib-tarded agenda for starters; 
• after that, there will be a monetary and physical penalty to drive home the lesson.

Oh, and did we mention that we'll also provide you with a waiver, signed and notarized, absolving you of any damage you might inflict upon us - direct mechanical strikes, pepper spray, taser effects and gunshot wounds. We'll have it written up by an actual lawyer and make a video of ourselves reading it so there's no question we knew what we were signing up for.

And you'll sign the same waiver.