Time for a reality check Ma'Khia Bryant shooting

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It is amazing how the black community and others are trying everything they can to take down the police. Lets go through the different know to all facts about this incident.

1. There is a frantic 911 call stating that there is someone yielding a knife who has put their hands on their grandmother and is trying to stab them.

2. Police are dispatched to the scene.

3. An officer arrives at the scene and starts walking towards a woman in an orange outfit asking what is going on.

4. At that moment there is a struggle that appears to be coming in the direction of the officer (not threatening the officer)

5. The struggle appears to involve a young girl that is unarmed and a girl with I knife. This struggle continues with the police officer in plain site of the woman who is holding the knife.

6. While the struggle is heading towards the police officer he says Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey to the girl who disregards the officers voice.

7. An unarmed girl is pushed to the ground and the girl with the knife turns her attention to the girl wearing the orange outfit.

8. When he sees the girl is not responding to him he says "Get Down, Get Down, Get Down, Get Down" and the girl not only does not respond but she has the girl in the orange outfit pinned against the car and now raises the knife in an attempt to stab the girl in orange.

9. The officer fires 4 shots and the girl with the knife drops the knife and falls to the ground.

10. At the same time that the girl with the knife was attacking the girl with the orange outfit with the officer in full view of a male wearing a hoodie, the male with the hoodie kicks the first girl that fell down to the ground in the head, just a few feet from the officer.

11. From the time the altercation came visible to the officer to the time he fired the first shot was 6 seconds and covered approximately 14 feet.

Many people ask why the officer didn't use his taser. Why would he use his gun. Think about it, the officer was called to an emergency call of someone who was trying to stab people, when he arrived he was in plain view of everyone. The struggle came in his direction in full view of the girl with the knife. The officer has to immediately react with force that WILL WORK. In the case of someone using a deadly weapon wear the use of that deadly weapon could cause imminent death, police are trained to use methods that don't fail. A taser is not 100% effective. Think about it, if it was your kid that was going to be the one being stabbed how would you want the police officer to respond. Even the girl in the orange outfit stated that Ma'Khia was trying to stab her. If you saw the girl with the knife's aggression and the man with the hoodie's aggression in full view of the police officer continue without any response that there was law enforcement at the scene, do you really think this would have gotten better if he didn't use his gun.
 
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