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ORIGINAL POST The trial into the officer that murdered Laquan McDonald and the justification that his lawyer put forth in court was semi shocking. I can't be completely shocked because this is how people who are apart of the problem really think. Daniel Herbert, lawyer for Officer Jason Van Dyke, said this during his argument to justify the officer's action, "Yes, it was an ugly shooting, ugly from the standpoint it showed a graphic image, not unlike most shootings were a policy officer shoots at an individual. The point is it was business as usual." He didn't stop there! He continued with, "If a firefighter arrives on the scene of a fire and climbs up on the roof and takes the ax out and cuts the roof open to ventilate the roof...are we going to charge that firefighter with criminal damage to property? Of course not. It's preposterous. You cannot be charged criminally for duties you are required by law to do." Brief thoughts: Sir, shut the entire hell up. You're comparing 2 entirely different things. 1 doesn't involve taking a person's life and the other involves an officer shooting a teenager 16 times. It's business as usual for an officer to shot another person 16 times? Sure, since the young man was hold a knife, I can semi understand firing once in a location of the body that wouldn't kill him in order to incapacitate him, but emptying his gun 14 seconds or less is beyond excessive. I'm sure if the firefighter had to cut open the roof and there was video of it, there wouldn't be any hesitation to release the video of him doing so, there was blatant refusal to release the video of this incident. To call this young man's death business as usual is disturbing to me and to say that police shooting other people is business as usual is also disturbing. Where does it say that police can go around shooting people and it be business as usual? I thought business as usual was protecting and defending the citizens they're supposed to be trained to protect. I thought business as usual was diffusing situations in appropriate manners and not using excessive force. So, pretty much what I've gathered from his words is that if an officer shoots another person instead of finding another way to handle the situation it's just business as usual. So, remember ladies and gentlemen, the next time an unfortunate incident like this should happen, we're not to be alarmed or outraged because it's just business as usual. #blacklivesmatter #sayhisname
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