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(09-02-2020, 12:22 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: Maybe half.

Jacob Blake obviously wasn't.

Tamir Rice was shot very quickly but he didn't immediately show his hands, so I guess you could say he wasn't following commands. He was also 12 years old.

Breonna Taylor was asleep so you can't put her in that category. Her boyfriend shot at the cops but he clearly thought they were people breaking into the apartment (which they were legally or otherwise).

There was Atatiana Jefferson who was killed in her own home during a welfare check because the cop seemingly mistook her for a burglar. The cop claimed he identified himself but I think his body cam showed he shot within a second of identifying himself so...
He was arrested though, so that's nice.

George Floyd was obviously on something and was panicking when put into the back seat of the car and then was choked to death. I guess you could interpret his panicking as not following the cop's commands.

Philando Castille told the cop that he had a gun and then the cop basically panicked and executed him. So you can't really put him in this category.

From what I recall, John Crawford was shot before he even realized the cops were there. I'd have to watch the tape to see if I'm misremembering this. But I don't think he is a case of not following commands. 

Elijah McClain was walking home and was approached by cops. You could probably qualify what he did as resisting arrest, since he was clearly panicking because he was approached by police when he did nothing wrong.

That's just the ones I can recall from memory. You can find a list of the victims here with articles describing the murders if you're interested to learn more:
https://sayevery.name/say-their-names-list

EDIT: actually, it seems like only the ones on their front page link the articles. I guess the others are too far ranging to aggregate articles for all of them.:
https://sayevery.name/

It's a shitty game they get to play, "they resisted". Someone like Elijah McClain, who fits the profile of someone on the spectrum, is confronted and grabbed by police. As soon as someone who hasn't done a thing wrong has a normal, not at all malicious, reaction to that physical contact, they're accused of "resisting". 

A 5 foot 6, buck forty kid walking down the street dancing a bit to music, and they're manhandling him as he's vomiting and crying that he can't breathe. This kid is having an uncontrollable reaction to being thrown to the ground and restrained. 


The car was still moving before Rice was shot. They tackled his sister as she ran to her dying brother. 

Castile tries to let the cops know that he carries a gun, he's trying to be responsible, and they shoot him as he tries to go for his ID as they asked for. The cop responds to him saying that he had a gun with "Okay, don't reach for it, then ... don't pull it out." Castile says "I'm not pulling it out". He wasn't going for his gun, his hand had been on his wallet. The cop may have meant, don't go for the wallet either, but that's unclear and the end result is a dead man who at no point threatened anyone. He had been pulled over because he had a "wide nose" like a suspect they were looking for...

George Floyd was erratic but not violent. He was on something, but he didn't need a knee on his neck for 8 minutes. What he did was irrelevant to that fact.