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Originally Posted by LoneWolf
You are comparing a traffic stop with a guy verbally threatening officers, having a three hour standoff with officers, and wielding two knives at officers and I'm the dumb ****? 
Do you honestly believe that the cops would have shot him if he didn't reach into his pockets and pull out knives? This guy wanted to be shot and in the end he got exactly what he wanted. I just wish he wouldn't have wasted the taxpayer's money and stabbed himself in the throat. Same result, fewer bleeding ****ing vaginas worried about a crazy man with a death wish. |
No... He is comparing a traffic stop with a guy getting busted for camping. The comparison has a lot more objectivity than you realize. A traffic stop can and has escalated to this degree as we'll all across America. There are potentially a lot of background stories to this that we will never know about. What if the guy had been beaten by cops in the past for no other reason than being homeless. He could not only potentially feel like society doesn't give a shit about him, but combined with the possible histories we don't know about be perhaps irrationally (god What a nut thinking he can't trust the cops here right?) fearing for his livelihood. When cornered he felt he had to defend himself... Considering how many times he tried to tell the cops he wasn't a threat to them is it that far fetched to find this plausible?