re: #7 WhatEVs

I know little about this whole event but, and I am not advocating or excusing this in any way, shape or form, there is a difference between actual violence and perceived violence. Meaning, who was carrying a gun in that home invasion? (Home invasion is usually a robbery when someone is home vs B&E with a weapon, right?) Was it this guy?

Let’s now assume for a moment that it was this guy. Yeah, it was a shitty thing to do, especially if they scared the living daylights out of the owners, but isn’t that what the court system is for? To lock perpetrators up in prison…not to execute them on the street?

We’ve gone from a system of rules and laws to an allowed vigilante system with police being the lone arbiters of meting out justice. And that justice is apparently wild, wild west style.

This wasn’t some sort of revenge shooting, as this article from The Smoking Gun makes clear:

According to police, an officer responded Friday to a 911 call about a man who had assaulted a victim and was dodging cars in traffic. The cop followed the suspect into a nearby apartment, where the man allegedly struck the officer in the head, knocking him to the ground. During an ensuing struggle, patrolman Matt Kenny fatally shot the suspect.

So this wasn’t about what Anthony Robinson had done before, this was about him running from a cop into a apartment and then attacking the cop when the officer followed him inside. And if the officer had been hit on the head and was on the ground next to a violent suspect, then in my eyes that’s a justifiable shooting. If Robinson had not attacked officer Kenny, he would not have been shot.