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Kamala isn’t popular at all, though, so it’s not like this pick is going to help Biden get out the progressive vote. Then again, I didn’t really have a serious preference; I always joked that I wanted it to be Condoleeza Rice or John Kasich as the ultimate conclusion of Biden Thought (‘We need to unite against Trump so I’ve picked a Republican as my VP to show unity’) but with everything that’s gone on recently, perhaps the Kamala pick was sensible. I also think it would have been good for him to have someone who hails from one of the swingier states than California. 

Anyways, the main news for me is just being very happy than Ilhan Omar won her primary to represent Minnesota’s fifth congressional district, despite her opponent having raised around $10 million more than her, and much to the chagrin of the entire establishment. Plus I just love watching Tim Pool here get humiliated each time a progressive wins their primary and upsets his whole narrative. 

2 shootings happened recently that are related to each other.

First, on August 23, Jacob Blake was repeatedly shot in the back by police while trying to grab a knife in his car. While he didn’t die, he’s currently paralyzed from the waist down and is handcuffed to his bed.

Then, during protests 2 days later, 17-year old Kyle Rittenhouse killed 2 protesters (and shot a 3rd) while participating in vigilante justice.

In the former case, i think the best thing to do is drop ALL charges, meaning that neither Jacob nor the police would be charged. Jacob did have a knife hidden in his floorboard, was resisting arrest, and initially tried more peaceful methods, so they definitely had probable cause to assume that he was a threat. However, the officer grabbed him right before shooting him, which shows that he could’ve just pinned him to the ground without using potentially lethal force.

In the latter case, Kyle was 100% in the wrong. However, i really hate how the left’s ignoring the possibility of mental illness.

While it’s hard to say whether or not he’s mentally ill, no sane person goes from happy Boy Scout trying to help out his community to vicious predator hunting people down and killing them in a matter of ~2 hours. I can say from personal experience that these rapid mood swings tell us that at the very least, he has bipolar disorder.

Personally, i think they should do a mental health evaluation. If found sane, he should seek the insanity plea and be confined to a mental hospital for the rest of his life. If found sane, he should face homicide charges and should go to prison for as long as they can possibly hold him.

But of course, the real problem here is Trump, which is very depressing. The fact that Trump said things like “When the looting starts, the shooting starts” and did things like having peaceful protesters sprayed with tear gas, it was only a matter of time before something like this happened and the fact that he hasn’t called out this man (as well as his supporters SIDING with this person) is absolutely sickening. If Trump had tried to unite us and de-escalate the situation instead of being a partisan bomb thrower, this never would’ve happened.

Agreed but this isn’t just resisting arrest, as it appears that he was trying to pull a knife out of his car*, which he could’ve used to attack the officers. Of course, the officers should’ve continued to use more peaceful forms of subversion instead of shooting him in the back but this is a grey area scenario where both parties were in the wrong and i feel that it would be a great disservice to compare this to situations like the one with George Floyd where there was no threat whatsoever.

*While there is no proof that this was his intent, there was a knife found hidden under the front seat (the very area he was trying to get into).

Definitely but he was a threat to the officers and these decisions have to be made fast and sometimes you don’t think about the more reasonable response.

Had the officer hesitated, he could’ve grabbed that knife and hurt (or even killed) someone or he could’ve drove away and potentially committed even more crimes.

QuarryMan said
It’s possible to shoot someone and render them no longer a threat without shooting them seven times in the back. The officer could have shot Blake in the leg, for example. 

I don’t have anything to say about this particular situation, but if you really think your life is at risk (which is the only reason you should be shooting somebody), shooting somebody in the leg is a horrible idea. If you have to shoot somebody, you aim to kill. Have you heard of adrenaline? Shooting a person in the leg won’t always stop them from shooting you. Not only that, but shooting somebody in an extremity has the potential of hitting an artery, so there’s still a real possibility of killing them.

Von Bontee said
Dunno why the approval of “the far right” should be a factor; they’re already overjoyed to see a Black man pumped full of bullets.  

I think the people who are most “overjoyed” are the ones burning stuff down and looting. They can express their true nature while using this man they probably don’t really care about as an excuse.