On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Weekends with Alex Witt,” Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) argued that police officers “could shoot in the air” and that “Teachers go and break up fights with knives every day.”
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Beatty said, “We have to have a better way of de-escalating. Here is an occurrence where the police knew they were coming with two girls fighting — or a girl and two adults fighting. So, I think we have to look at the system. one size can’t fit all. You can’t say that you are trained to only shoot to the center of the body. Four shots, I mean, come on, the first shot would knock the knife, a kitchen knife to the ground. And when you look at what’s happening here in Franklin County, I’m embarrassed by it. When you look at the number of percentages of fatal shootings at the hands of law enforcement, when you look at, we’re rated 18th out of 100 of the largest, most populous cities in the nation. We need to take a longer look, a better look, rather, at our system. How are we training police officers? I find it unacceptable that one way of training, one system, one size cannot fit all. You cannot put four bullets into a 16-year-old’s chest. You can’t put six bullets into a person’s back. Now, we’re going from a kitchen knife, a sandwich, a cell phone, car keys. We have to call for more transparency, more training, and more justice.”
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She added, “So, if you have a [1]6-year-old with a knife in her hand looking like she’s going to attack her sister, what, you shoot her four times in the chest? I think it’s ridiculous. You could shoot in the air. If you look at that video, with Ma’Khia Bryant, the first shot, the knife is on the ground, people are scattering. It did not make sense. Teachers go and break up fights with knives every day. So, there has to be a better way in this situation.”
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So where, exactly, is that bullet fired into the air going to come down? There have been many cases of deaths from indiscriminate firing into the air
Dear Beatty, I agree with you as far as teachers can stop knife fights at School. The problem with that comparison to this issue is that it wasn’t a stand off with two people with 1 or both yielding knives the actual threat of one’s life being taken isn’t present yet. In this case the knife was about to be lunged in the other girl. The Officer had about 5 seconds to react to save the victims life. In that 5 seconds there was no time to talk the attacker down. Even making an attempt to shoot the attacker in the legs that others are trying to use to attack the Officer IF he was able tl shoot the legs because of the target being so much smaller it still wouldn’t have stopped the stabbing. The Officer would have only been able to make about 4 shots without a guarantee to hit.