Joe Biden on what cops should do "when there's an unarmed person coming at them with a knife of something": Shoot him "in the leg instead of the heart"

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Leaving aside the facts that George Floyd wasn't "coming at them" when those

cops took him down, and that they didn't shoot him, and that a shot "in the leg"

can also kill you, if it hits the femoral artery, let's just note that this demented

counsel on police procedure went unmentioned in "A Basement Campaign Slowly

Steps Outside," Adam Nagourney's labored effort, in today's NYTimes, to spin 

Biden's convalescent run as maybe sort of promising. 

Although Nagourney does refer to Biden's (masked) performance at that church 

in Wilmington, where "he spent an hour listening to black community leaders," 

the reporter obviously couldn't quote what Biden said about how cops should

shoot at unarmed people, because it would make clear (again) that he's 

completely out to lunch; and so Nagourney quotes this gem instead: "Hate

just hides. It doesn't go away. And when you have somebody in power who

breathes oxygen to the hate under the rocks [sic], it comes out from under

the rocks." 

I'd really to riff some on that statement, as it's also pretty rich, and we sure

could use a laugh; but there's too much else going down (e.g., the Bill of 

Rights, the world economy, and the pale fiction of American democracy),

so let's just it leave it here—other than to note that "our free press" is just

as credible on Biden's viability as it is on every other aspect of the lethal

system that's now coming down on all of us.

MCM    

Biden suggests police could shoot assailants 'in the leg instead of the heart'

by David Knowles

Editor, Yahoo News

June 1, 2020

https://sports.yahoo.com/biden-suggests-police-could-shoot-assailants-in-the-leg-instead-of-the-heart-201750470.html

Joe Biden said Monday that police under attack in the line of duty should shoot their assailants “in the leg instead of the heart” as a way to avert the killing of civilians.

“Instead of standing there and teaching a cop, when there’s an unarmed person coming at them with a knife or something, you shoot them in the leg instead of in the heart is a very different thing. There’s a lot of different things that could change,” Biden said in a meeting with community leaders at Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Del.

Biden’s remarks were made as cities across the nation continue to be engulfed in violent protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd, an African-American, in police custody in Minneapolis. Four officers were fired for their role in Floyd’s death, which was captured on video. Former Officer Derek Chauvin, who kneeled on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes, was charged Friday with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

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