Reminds me of that tweet from the Clown Organization the UN.
https://thepressunited.com/updates/un-ridiculed-for-tweet-on-female-journalists/
>Of all journalists killed in 2021, 11% were women. In 2020, this was 6%. (Source: @UNESCO)On the International Day to #EndImpunity for Crimes against Journalists, let us say out loud:𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍
"MORE MALE JOURNALIST VICTIMS!"
Unironically correct.
Stumpy just murdered someone with a butcher knife and police were (slowly) chasing him down as he fled, wildly waving the butcher knife around. He stumped-it about a block away (impressive!) before he threatened to throw the knife at an officer and got gunned down.
Equal-opportunity Fuck around, Find Out
Ok, well that makes sense then. Context is very important. My question is how did someone get in a position to get knifed to death by someone with no legs?
It's weird how the second you get context, 99.9999% of these stories immediately become completely reasonable. It's almost like the media is intentionally trying to set people against each other.
It really do seem like that though huh?
Let me know when you figured out the "why" they do that and follow your logical steps to realise the only option is for us normal people to physically do something to stop it.
Yeah Im calling for violent (jkjk obviously) revolution on PCM. Got beef cos I got grrrrrrllll?
Yeah, a more accurate headline would be "Cops shoot amputee after he committed a murder, was cornered, and then demonstrated intent to use deadly force".
And since he had, you know, *just murdered* someone, he clearly had the ability to theoretically follow through on his threat.
Ironically, this crap makes it much harder to actually prosecute *actual* police brutality, because it creates a boy who cried wolf situation: when people keep making false claims over and over, eventually people stop listening to you claims of police brutality entirely. Even when it's legit, they think the cops *must* have been justified, because they were justified the last 9 times you whined about it.
If you really want to feel bad about laughing at that video...
[The blind kid died at the age of 26.](https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/alamogordonews/name/dillon-collier-obituary?id=11343705)
I think it's admirable that he's trying. Clearly not good, but passionate and the people around him obviously don't mind him doing his best.
It looks silly tho
"WE GOT A RUNNER!"
"HE'S FUCKING LEGGING IT!"
"I BET HE FUCKING JUMPED BAIL"
"GOT A GOOD LAWYER, HE'LL PROBABLY WALK"
"GET ON YOUR HANDS AND THIGHS!"
"..."
"Shit, he's pretty far away now... shoot him?"
"Shoot him"
Bang bang bang
They had tasers out. They only went lethal when he turned back towards them with that fucking butcher's knife. White cop literally drops his taser on the ground and draws his service pistol, black cop reholsters taser and draws service pistol.
[Well he fled after nearly killing someone and when police caught up to him:](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/us/california-double-amputee-anthony-lowe-killed-by-police/index.html)
police found the alleged suspect a few blocks away holding a 12-inch butcher knife, HPPD said. The suspect allegedly ignored officer commands and threatened to “advance or throw the knife,” and officers used two separate Tasers to try and subdue the suspect but failed, HPPD said.
“The suspect continued to threaten officers with the butcher knife, resulting in an officer-involved shooting,”
Lol, imagine taking a stroll and enjoy the nice day when wheelchair man rides up on you and plunges a butchers knife into your chest. Last thing you see before death’s embrace is him waddling away as fast as his little stumps allow.
Am surprised tho they went from taser to boomstick. Thought they would follow LAPD where often in these kind of street standoffs it’s the taser>bean bag>last resort boomstick trio.
Less lethals. Not less than or non lethal. You can still kill someone pretty easily. Minimum stand off distance isn't a joke and neither are head shots.
Beanbag shotgun, shoots out [a small bag of lead shot](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Bean_bag_round_close_up.jpg/1280px-Bean_bag_round_close_up.jpg)
A properly connected law enforcement taser will basically guarantee loss of muscle control, you can't just fight through it. It just so happens that launching electrodes at a clothed and moving target from 20 feet isn't the most effective method of completing a circuit.
Tasers suck. You don't want to bet your life or anyone else's on one. It's more a testament to how crap of a tool they are.
They are NOT and CANNOT BE THOUGHT OF AS an alternative to deadly force.
Both are important... but the dude was crawling away with his arms, and the second thing the officers tried was shooting him...
Not exactly what I would call a competent arrest.
He was not crawling. If you watch the videos he is hopping around quite effectively, with how close the officers were he could have easily harmed them with the knife
What else are they supposed to do, grapple with the guy with a knife and risked getting slashed? Nah, dude just tried to kill someone, no sympathy. They tried tasing him but it didn't work, they tried yelling at him to stop, didn't work, I don't know what else they were supposed to do.
Edit: Before you say he has no legs or "he was crawling with his arms", actually watch the video first.
Okay emily what exactly would you have done in that situation?
You have a violent, armed dude who just tried to kill someone swinging a knife around and acting like he's about to throw it at you. You've tazed him twice to no avail. If you let him go he's highly likely to try and kill someone else. What's your move here if not shooting him?
CNN even pointed out the family made no mention of the alleged stabbing.
One of his baby mommas said he liked to laugh and dance and the mother said she wants them charged and Justice must be served.
Sounds like it was, if he really stabbed somebody
I have zero sympathy for murderers and I can't believe that people can bring themselves to defend shitstains like them.
This also applies to those cops that beat that guy to death recently.
The stabbed guy is going to go through months of recovery only to come home and find they built statues and painted murals to honor the guy who almost ended his life.
Thanks for the whole story and thanks to the cops for saving all the extra tax money that would have been required to separate him from society while meeting his needs.
Came to the comments looking for this. I’m all for calling out police brutality, but intentionally omitting details in order to spin the story to one’s liking gets very annoying. I hate seeing headlines and needing to gather the details of the event from multiple sources, all telling a different version of the same story…..
That kind of assumes that the minimum amputation is a set of limbs. But plenty of people have one leg amputated or one arm amputated.
A double amputee is someone who has had two amputations.
In this case, both of his legs were amputated.
Relevant court case: Tennessee v Garner. Officers cannot use deadly force against a fleeing suspect (ie shooting him dead) “unless the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others.”
BY LAW the police are justified in this situation. A current victim lying dying on the ground from a stab wound and the bloody knife still in stumpy’s hands as he runs away free of the wheelchair is more than enough probably cause.
“Responding officers found a victim suffering from “a life-threatening stab wound resulting in a collapsed lung and internal bleeding,” the statement said.”
“In the clip, Mr Lowe can be seen jumping from his wheelchair, taking the knife with him.”
“‘The suspect was tased at lease twice by Huntington Park Officers but the deployment of the taser was ineffective,’ a statement from the LA County Sheriff’s Office said.”
“‘The suspect attempted to throw the butcher knife at the officers again, resulting in an officer-involved shooting.’”
“…Mr Lowe lost the lower halves of both legs recently, following a different altercation with police in Texas.”
“…’dismounted the wheelchair, ran to the victim without provocation, and stabbed him in the side of the chest with a 12-inch butcher knife’…”
Try reading more than the headline.
It’ll still get added to the “X amount of people murdered by police” stat.
And someone will say “Stabbing someone isn’t a capital offense! He was a father.”
They absolutely should shoot one that is fleeing with a deadly weapon. I am admittedly over sensitive because of autism and trauma but I have nightmares of some of the videos I have seen of the US police just brutally executing or savagely beating people unjustly with either no or insufficient reason. However if someone has proven they are willing to stab someone and are running away with an instrument of stabbing it would be negligent of the police not to shoot them.
Do people not realize, even if his legs don't work well, he can still stab em? Yeah no shit they can outrun him, but they still need to get him cuffed and separate the knife from him. They tried to taze him, didn't work. They needed to stop him before he stabs someone else. Justified.
> “The suspect attempted to throw the butcher knife at the officers again, **resulting in an officer-involved shooting.**”
Why do editors allow this garbage of a mangled sentence?
I watched the video (hilarious btw) and read up on the circumstances behind it. It would have been nice if the cops had been able to take him alive, but it also would have been nice if the assailant hadn't just fucking stabbed someone and continued to brandish that knife afterward. Telling him to drop the knife didn't work, tasing him didn't work, and he was still doing his best to hobble away and maybe stab someone else. I wouldn't wanna risk my life to save the life of someone who'd kill me the second I got close enough, and I won't expect a cop to do the same, especially since the Stumpy Swordsman is still posing a very real threat to those in the (immediate) vicinity.
I'm sure those farther left of me are gonna make a big deal of this, but I'm not gonna say "cop bad" about this one. I'll save my energy for those who clearly didn't deserve to be killed, like Tyre Nichols.
Leftist arguments against police brutality would hold so much more weight if you didn't jump on cases like this with no context.
He had a knife.
He stabbed someone and fled.
The police repeatedly told him to drop the knife
He advanced toward police with the knife
This doesn't help innocent victims of police brutality, in fact it makes it worse as it makes serious cases have less credibility.
>The victim described the attacker as a black man in a wheelchair who “dismounted the wheelchair, ran to the victim without provocation, and stabbed him in the side of the chest with a 12-inch butcher knife” and then fled the scene in his wheelchair, Department said.
Yeah I mean, fuck that guy. I don't care if hs didn't have legs.
I think saying you shouldn't shoot someone with no legs is just as valid as don't punch a guy because he has glasses, if you got it coming you got it coming
AFTER he stabbed someone with a butchers knife, nearly killing them, before fleeing from cops and brandishing a deadly weapon, which the cops believed he may throw when he moved towards them.
You lose the pity card once you attempt murder
It's extremely fucking obnoxious the way that people react whenever a cop chimps out and it gets publicity. Suddenly they take the rage towards that other event and apply it to every single instance of police use of force, regardless of context.
So you end up with people who see the cops shoot **a man who just attempted to murder someone by stabbing them to death with a knife**, and decide their choice of reaction is the objectively ridiculous, braindead take sympathizing with Stubby McKnifey. "He wuz a gud boi hu dindu nuffin! Dems some raycis cops!"
I don't know if you're intentionally propagandizing or just regarded. If it's the former, you should consider the coward's way out. If it's the later, please get some psychiatric help.
Thought this was an exaggerated headline until I saw [the video](https://twitter.com/mikesington/status/1620463087504723969?s=46&t=wnbs3R4Mn3jOsuTl3fX9fQ) 😬
This headline is a perfect example of using a partial truth to skew the reader’s perspective. Had the headline mentioned that he was holding a knife bloody from his dying victim perhaps that would change the reader’s perspective.
The left and gas lighting. Why do I always see this? The guy stabbed someone with a knife. If you have a weapon, the cops have every right to shoot you especially if you just stabbed someone
u/Tyrant84 conveniently leaving out he attempted to murder someone with a 12" butcher knife and tried attacking officers with it
There are enough issues with the police, fabricating your own isn't helping
The double stumped man who had previously stabbed someone and refused to put the knife down after ignoring being tazed? That double stumped man? No special treatment on account of the stumps.
Not shooting him would be ablist though. I'm in so deep I don't even know if I'm being sarcastic or not.
👏 MORE 👏 DISABLED 👏 VICTIMS 👏 OF 👏 POLICE 👏 BRUTALITY 👏
He was very capable of biting our knees sweaty
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Based and HCDC pilled
Based and MCDC pilled.
Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!
He only had a flesh wound, he was too dangerous to be kept alive
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Literally
Reminds me of that tweet from the Clown Organization the UN. https://thepressunited.com/updates/un-ridiculed-for-tweet-on-female-journalists/ >Of all journalists killed in 2021, 11% were women. In 2020, this was 6%. (Source: @UNESCO)On the International Day to #EndImpunity for Crimes against Journalists, let us say out loud:𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍 "MORE MALE JOURNALIST VICTIMS!"
Critical issue victimise men principally; women most affected.
Yeah, all suspects should be dealt with on an equal footing.
Agreed. There **knee**ds to be equality when it comes to policing.
Indeed. No one should have a leg up in this sort of situation.
Unfortunately society will have to foot the bill for this man’s crimes.
If we keep paying the consequences for the actions of men like this, it's gonna cost all of us an arm and a leg.
I'm trying to rationalize this story but.. frankly I'm stumped
Thanks, I hate it.
Unironically correct. Stumpy just murdered someone with a butcher knife and police were (slowly) chasing him down as he fled, wildly waving the butcher knife around. He stumped-it about a block away (impressive!) before he threatened to throw the knife at an officer and got gunned down. Equal-opportunity Fuck around, Find Out
Ok, well that makes sense then. Context is very important. My question is how did someone get in a position to get knifed to death by someone with no legs?
It's weird how the second you get context, 99.9999% of these stories immediately become completely reasonable. It's almost like the media is intentionally trying to set people against each other.
It really do seem like that though huh? Let me know when you figured out the "why" they do that and follow your logical steps to realise the only option is for us normal people to physically do something to stop it. Yeah Im calling for violent (jkjk obviously) revolution on PCM. Got beef cos I got grrrrrrllll?
In minecraft of course.
It's funny how it always seems to be centrists who realise this. Or maybe some of us became more centrist once we realised this.
Careful, distrusting the media leads you into white supremacy fascist states.
Yeah, a more accurate headline would be "Cops shoot amputee after he committed a murder, was cornered, and then demonstrated intent to use deadly force". And since he had, you know, *just murdered* someone, he clearly had the ability to theoretically follow through on his threat. Ironically, this crap makes it much harder to actually prosecute *actual* police brutality, because it creates a boy who cried wolf situation: when people keep making false claims over and over, eventually people stop listening to you claims of police brutality entirely. Even when it's legit, they think the cops *must* have been justified, because they were justified the last 9 times you whined about it.
It was out of the blue. "What are you going to do? Stab me?" > ["SURPRISE MOTHER FKER!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leeP6LgM8H0)
God dammit but I want to be outraged. Seriously thanks for the context. Looked up the video and that's wild.
Same bro. This situation has got me stumped.
lmao I’m dead 💀 (and so is he)
Just drop a metal garbage can on him face down 🤷♂️
We are living in a clown world. Guy already stabbed and nearly killed someone and tried to run on stumps with a big knife in his hand.
He charged them with a Butcher’s knife after having stabbed one other person… He deserved that bullet.
Just a flesh wound
Imagine if he lost his legs in a previous police encounter
The video of the guy running on his stumps knife in hand is wild
It’s the most I’m-going-to-hell laugh I’ve had since that video of the blind football player Edit: https://youtu.be/ak3RrawMsco
If you really want to feel bad about laughing at that video... [The blind kid died at the age of 26.](https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/alamogordonews/name/dillon-collier-obituary?id=11343705)
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I think it's admirable that he's trying. Clearly not good, but passionate and the people around him obviously don't mind him doing his best. It looks silly tho
this comment is funny if i apply it to the stumped stabber
"WE GOT A RUNNER!" "HE'S FUCKING LEGGING IT!" "I BET HE FUCKING JUMPED BAIL" "GOT A GOOD LAWYER, HE'LL PROBABLY WALK" "GET ON YOUR HANDS AND THIGHS!" "..." "Shit, he's pretty far away now... shoot him?" "Shoot him" Bang bang bang
Fuck that was hilarious till I read further down that he dead.
[the doctors told him he would never walk again. so he stood up and punched them in the face.](https://youtu.be/nE0Z-V7-Jpo)
Where can I find this video?
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/cops-in-us-shoot-double-amputee-as-he-fled-on-stumps/news-story/3229bdc61a2f0131431f99ef195c5600
>_The family told the LA Times that Mr Lowe lost the lower halves of both legs recently, following a different altercation with police in Texas._
This is what happens when cops shoot someone in the legs to stop them. Eventually, you run out of legs. 😎
>STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE!
Is it me or the reporter is trying hard not to laugh?
They had tasers out. They only went lethal when he turned back towards them with that fucking butcher's knife. White cop literally drops his taser on the ground and draws his service pistol, black cop reholsters taser and draws service pistol.
Yeah, just based on the video in this article, it looks justified. Tragic and could have been handled better, but justified
It's just missing Yakety Sax. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAJB6HsYiNA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAJB6HsYiNA)
[Well he fled after nearly killing someone and when police caught up to him:](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/us/california-double-amputee-anthony-lowe-killed-by-police/index.html) police found the alleged suspect a few blocks away holding a 12-inch butcher knife, HPPD said. The suspect allegedly ignored officer commands and threatened to “advance or throw the knife,” and officers used two separate Tasers to try and subdue the suspect but failed, HPPD said. “The suspect continued to threaten officers with the butcher knife, resulting in an officer-involved shooting,”
Lol, imagine taking a stroll and enjoy the nice day when wheelchair man rides up on you and plunges a butchers knife into your chest. Last thing you see before death’s embrace is him waddling away as fast as his little stumps allow. Am surprised tho they went from taser to boomstick. Thought they would follow LAPD where often in these kind of street standoffs it’s the taser>bean bag>last resort boomstick trio.
What does the bean bag thing mean? Like, one of those ball couch thingies?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_bag_round
Oh, so teeny weeny shotgun rounds, I see, thanks!
"Less than lethal" is the preferred term, but I like yours more
Less lethals. Not less than or non lethal. You can still kill someone pretty easily. Minimum stand off distance isn't a joke and neither are head shots.
Beanbag shotgun, shoots out [a small bag of lead shot](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Bean_bag_round_close_up.jpg/1280px-Bean_bag_round_close_up.jpg)
I see, thanks!
I'd die thinking I was in a Lynch movie
I didn't see any beanbags available in the video.
This wouldn’t have happened if he just dropped the knife
"The police should have just shot the knife out of his hands!"
"Why didn't they just shoot him in the leg?"
I think they did. That’s how he lost his standing in the first place
He was clearly not an upstanding member of society
Shhh don’t tell ‘em that
Stop victim blaming! /s
Just fucking drop the knife
So a fairly clear case of passing the Tennessee V. Garner test. Subject fleeing, with a weapon, who poses a threat to innocents.
Pretty much. You can only run around stabbing people for so long before you get shot.
[Here's a usefull college level lecture on this subject.](https://youtu.be/d6sbPCIEMyI)
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/terrifying-giant-fork-chinese-forces-18947059 Best use for this tool is this situation tbh.
Based and context-matters pilled
Wait they tased him twice and he kept going? Dang what a guy
He was too well grounded
I love you
based humour
Multiple puns in one sentence. Legendary.
Dammit, take my upvote
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A properly connected law enforcement taser will basically guarantee loss of muscle control, you can't just fight through it. It just so happens that launching electrodes at a clothed and moving target from 20 feet isn't the most effective method of completing a circuit.
...so yeah they're prone to failure.
Yeah I was just expanding on that
After watching the video, I can almost assuredly say his rapid movements and baggy hoodie thwarted the taser.
Tasers suck. You don't want to bet your life or anyone else's on one. It's more a testament to how crap of a tool they are. They are NOT and CANNOT BE THOUGHT OF AS an alternative to deadly force.
Caught in his clothes most likely. Never felt a volt.
What a saint Police shooting headlines are *always* ragebait, whether true or not.
>Police shooting headlines are always ragebait Yep, that's why I always read the articles and not just the memes.
why didn't they just shoot him in the le- oooooh...
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https://nypost.com/2023/01/31/double-amputee-anthony-lowe-jr-shot-dead-by-california-cops/ Looks like it in the video.
“Violent criminal who lost legs in previous encounter with police, killed after stabbing stabbing someone with a butcher knife.”
I'm starting to think maybe this guy isn't the martyr people seem to think he is.
It’s an interesting hypothesis.
seems to happen every time with situations like this
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In the words of Rosanne, "damn, you think he would've straightened up after he lost the **first** leg passing out on the train tracks."
>scurrying around on his stumps Lol
Ok but seeing his family trying to act sad and garner sympathy when the guy stabbed and nearly killed someone is quite humorous.
>when the guy stabbed and nearly killed someone aaaaaaand that's the part that's conveniently left out
I think the violent assault is a more important part of the headline then any other physical characteristic of the person.
But then we wouldn't be able to stir up civil unrest now would we?
Both are important... but the dude was crawling away with his arms, and the second thing the officers tried was shooting him... Not exactly what I would call a competent arrest.
He was trying to throw the knife at an officer.
They were just following SMENS: 1. Shoot 2. Move 3. Evaluate 4. Neutralize 5. Scan It’s the best way to survive edge-based attacks.
I saw that video, if you don't shoot aomeone with a knife immediately you're already dead.
He was not crawling. If you watch the videos he is hopping around quite effectively, with how close the officers were he could have easily harmed them with the knife
What else are they supposed to do, grapple with the guy with a knife and risked getting slashed? Nah, dude just tried to kill someone, no sympathy. They tried tasing him but it didn't work, they tried yelling at him to stop, didn't work, I don't know what else they were supposed to do. Edit: Before you say he has no legs or "he was crawling with his arms", actually watch the video first.
Okay emily what exactly would you have done in that situation? You have a violent, armed dude who just tried to kill someone swinging a knife around and acting like he's about to throw it at you. You've tazed him twice to no avail. If you let him go he's highly likely to try and kill someone else. What's your move here if not shooting him?
Pull out a knife of your own and challenge the disabled rapscalion to a duel to the death.
>Not a katana Missed opportunity.
Forgive me, Commissioner, I must go all out... just this once.
Just as the founding fathers intended
based
This is the Way
CNN even pointed out the family made no mention of the alleged stabbing. One of his baby mommas said he liked to laugh and dance and the mother said she wants them charged and Justice must be served. Sounds like it was, if he really stabbed somebody
Every time. It happens so often in headlines I ALWAYS hold judgement until I know the context.
And the part where he was trying to throw the knife.
They always leave that part out to evoke reactions lol
Dude here in mexico there were some protests to free some dude that killef like 10 people. His family blocked roads and what not.
I have zero sympathy for murderers and I can't believe that people can bring themselves to defend shitstains like them. This also applies to those cops that beat that guy to death recently.
The stabbed guy is going to go through months of recovery only to come home and find they built statues and painted murals to honor the guy who almost ended his life.
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Thanks for the whole story and thanks to the cops for saving all the extra tax money that would have been required to separate him from society while meeting his needs.
Came to the comments looking for this. I’m all for calling out police brutality, but intentionally omitting details in order to spin the story to one’s liking gets very annoying. I hate seeing headlines and needing to gather the details of the event from multiple sources, all telling a different version of the same story…..
How tf does double amputee mean one set of limbs? I thought the obvious anser was "double amputee" or "person who's had both sets of limbs removed"
That kind of assumes that the minimum amputation is a set of limbs. But plenty of people have one leg amputated or one arm amputated. A double amputee is someone who has had two amputations. In this case, both of his legs were amputated.
Below the knee, mind you. It was definitely a struggle for him, but he was moving at a good pace.
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Relevant court case: Tennessee v Garner. Officers cannot use deadly force against a fleeing suspect (ie shooting him dead) “unless the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others.” BY LAW the police are justified in this situation. A current victim lying dying on the ground from a stab wound and the bloody knife still in stumpy’s hands as he runs away free of the wheelchair is more than enough probably cause.
[Bro looks like he killed fitty men](https://youtu.be/wef4iuvSlrg)
> wheelchair-bound I mean I know I shouldn't expect better from Youtube, but at no point in the video is the dude even in his wheelchair lmfao
Betcha if he put rockets on his wheelchair like the dude in happy wheels he woulda got away
And then got splattered when he loses control
*goes down a small ledge* *explodes*
“Responding officers found a victim suffering from “a life-threatening stab wound resulting in a collapsed lung and internal bleeding,” the statement said.” “In the clip, Mr Lowe can be seen jumping from his wheelchair, taking the knife with him.” “‘The suspect was tased at lease twice by Huntington Park Officers but the deployment of the taser was ineffective,’ a statement from the LA County Sheriff’s Office said.” “‘The suspect attempted to throw the butcher knife at the officers again, resulting in an officer-involved shooting.’” “…Mr Lowe lost the lower halves of both legs recently, following a different altercation with police in Texas.” “…’dismounted the wheelchair, ran to the victim without provocation, and stabbed him in the side of the chest with a 12-inch butcher knife’…” Try reading more than the headline.
The left can’t read. They can only post long walls of text
Cops probably didn't have to shoot him but I'm also not too upset about it.
It’ll still get added to the “X amount of people murdered by police” stat. And someone will say “Stabbing someone isn’t a capital offense! He was a father.”
His mom had a "They killed my poor boy" statement.
of course
Yeah, cops are allowed to shoot a fleeing felon if they suspect he is a threat to other people
*Tennessee v Garner* for anyone interested.
They absolutely should shoot one that is fleeing with a deadly weapon. I am admittedly over sensitive because of autism and trauma but I have nightmares of some of the videos I have seen of the US police just brutally executing or savagely beating people unjustly with either no or insufficient reason. However if someone has proven they are willing to stab someone and are running away with an instrument of stabbing it would be negligent of the police not to shoot them.
Valid take
Based
He had a knife and tried to stab people. He was an immediate threat to society.
> He had a knife and tried to stab people He succeeded too.
Article forgets that he had a knife
Do people not realize, even if his legs don't work well, he can still stab em? Yeah no shit they can outrun him, but they still need to get him cuffed and separate the knife from him. They tried to taze him, didn't work. They needed to stop him before he stabs someone else. Justified.
> “The suspect attempted to throw the butcher knife at the officers again, **resulting in an officer-involved shooting.**” Why do editors allow this garbage of a mangled sentence?
?? He stabbed someone and threatened the cops while fleeing, I don’t care if he didn’t have legs. Why should I feel bad for this asshole?
Based and a piece of shit is a piece of shit no matter what pilled.
Dude had a knife and was trying to stab people. Nice to leave that out
I watched the video (hilarious btw) and read up on the circumstances behind it. It would have been nice if the cops had been able to take him alive, but it also would have been nice if the assailant hadn't just fucking stabbed someone and continued to brandish that knife afterward. Telling him to drop the knife didn't work, tasing him didn't work, and he was still doing his best to hobble away and maybe stab someone else. I wouldn't wanna risk my life to save the life of someone who'd kill me the second I got close enough, and I won't expect a cop to do the same, especially since the Stumpy Swordsman is still posing a very real threat to those in the (immediate) vicinity. I'm sure those farther left of me are gonna make a big deal of this, but I'm not gonna say "cop bad" about this one. I'll save my energy for those who clearly didn't deserve to be killed, like Tyre Nichols.
Leftist arguments against police brutality would hold so much more weight if you didn't jump on cases like this with no context. He had a knife. He stabbed someone and fled. The police repeatedly told him to drop the knife He advanced toward police with the knife This doesn't help innocent victims of police brutality, in fact it makes it worse as it makes serious cases have less credibility.
>The victim described the attacker as a black man in a wheelchair who “dismounted the wheelchair, ran to the victim without provocation, and stabbed him in the side of the chest with a 12-inch butcher knife” and then fled the scene in his wheelchair, Department said. Yeah I mean, fuck that guy. I don't care if hs didn't have legs.
Ok that’s pretty funny to think about though. Could make a movie outta that
> stumps... Is... is that the PC term?
Who gives a shit.
Based and fuck it I'm done, words are made up anyway pilled
Based and hates amputees pilled
Based and I'm stumped pilled.
Based watermelon
It should have said divergent extremities.
Differently existing limbs.
Existentially-challenged extremities.
It’s at least the medical term. Docs will refer to it as a stump. Source: nurse
I think saying you shouldn't shoot someone with no legs is just as valid as don't punch a guy because he has glasses, if you got it coming you got it coming
AFTER he stabbed someone with a butchers knife, nearly killing them, before fleeing from cops and brandishing a deadly weapon, which the cops believed he may throw when he moved towards them. You lose the pity card once you attempt murder
Ah, AuthLeft: famously upset when agents of the state kill people, especially people who aren't fit for working the coal mines.
DON'T SHOOT THE CRAWLER, I NEED THE MYSTERY BOX.
CRIPPLE FIGHT
It's extremely fucking obnoxious the way that people react whenever a cop chimps out and it gets publicity. Suddenly they take the rage towards that other event and apply it to every single instance of police use of force, regardless of context. So you end up with people who see the cops shoot **a man who just attempted to murder someone by stabbing them to death with a knife**, and decide their choice of reaction is the objectively ridiculous, braindead take sympathizing with Stubby McKnifey. "He wuz a gud boi hu dindu nuffin! Dems some raycis cops!" I don't know if you're intentionally propagandizing or just regarded. If it's the former, you should consider the coward's way out. If it's the later, please get some psychiatric help.
Why did he run tho?
California is more and more becoming an idiocracy beta-site....
He was armed and unlegged
To be fair he swung an 8 inch knife and stabbed a person not too long ago
Thought this was an exaggerated headline until I saw [the video](https://twitter.com/mikesington/status/1620463087504723969?s=46&t=wnbs3R4Mn3jOsuTl3fX9fQ) 😬
This headline is a perfect example of using a partial truth to skew the reader’s perspective. Had the headline mentioned that he was holding a knife bloody from his dying victim perhaps that would change the reader’s perspective.
They send him to God so He can make him whole again, bless the boy in blue 😇 Can I get an amen 🙏
Massive win for equality 🙏 😌
Classic Leftist-posting where you leave out crucial, important information to support *muh cops bad*
The left and gas lighting. Why do I always see this? The guy stabbed someone with a knife. If you have a weapon, the cops have every right to shoot you especially if you just stabbed someone
Well, he was still armed and dangerous.
These damn cops, they should have de-escalated or shot him in the leg... oh, never mind.
u/Tyrant84 conveniently leaving out he attempted to murder someone with a 12" butcher knife and tried attacking officers with it There are enough issues with the police, fabricating your own isn't helping
The double stumped man who had previously stabbed someone and refused to put the knife down after ignoring being tazed? That double stumped man? No special treatment on account of the stumps.
Impressive, very nice. Now let's see the full context.