Officials need to stop asking people to be calm and suspects to be calm and start asking the police to be calm instead. Yelling and drawing guns is not serving a community, that's oppression and terrorism. The word "deescalation" doesn't even exist in their vocabulary.
People resist arrest all the time in the UK that doesn't mean the police can kill them. Some of them are violent, drunk or on drugs too. Still doesn't mean the police can kill them. There are so many different ways you can handle a situation without taking someone's life.
UK has its own issues with race and violence, but the fact most police are unarmed it forces them to take a different approach. Can't be shooting first and asking questions later, this is insanity.
I've seen many heartbreaking stories also about people just having a mental health crisis also being shot and killed. Is that how we treat the vulnerable? Or even dogs being shot? This is not healthy or civilized to approach every situation with a firearm. That's not a solution.
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