pain other shooting know that is happening couple days ago in saint louis
and we were all praising
we much many in the media were praising the Saint Louis Police Department for
immediately coming out and saying here's what happened here's why the officers
did it
here's what we know: and now the same and and
apparently the sailors Police Department is making a very sincere effort to be as
transparent
as possible and part of what they've done
is release a a about a two minute video maybe three-minute video
maybe as long in that are not say the a bit but it's it's all over the place you
can heave
find it that was recorded by a guy there in saint louis
so what happens is your your black area of town
this this guy who is behaving very very erratically
has gone into a store stolen a couple bottles a soda
brings them out and set them right on the curb and no walks back and forth
like he's waiting for the police to come because he knows that the stores going
has called the police because he stole from them anne's
the AE to me it looks like you know this guy is got a mental health problem
and the police officers show up in this is all on video
police officer show up any starts say yelling at the cops ain't shoot me now
shoot me now
and the now what the sailors Police Department said as he pulled out a knife
but he came
at the officers from a distance of a few feet away they shot him
what the video shows is that he was
quite some distance from the officers when they shot him and
you know whether there's a night for not if if there is it's damn small
I can see in the video although I'm you know I'm I'm confident that right now
the
TV networks all over the country are you know enhancing this video and looking at
little micro frames and study to see if there was anything this guy's hand
but it's an astounding piece %uh video
and it's causing now a whole new set of questions but the interesting thing is
the Saint Louis police released the video
they said oh by the way here's a video of what happened
and it doesn't comport with
what the chief of police it said entirely i mean it does to some extent
but not entirely
so now we've got another
another black man killed by white cops who was apparently unarmed although the
call it went out to them says specified that he added night somebody
money the 911 calls a person said this guy has a knife
so they they were expecting to confront an armed guy
now over the daily banter
Ben Cohen who is British
ben has been on our TV show many many times
on and you can see this over a but daily banter dot can
a dot com over the daily banter Ben wrote an op-ed titled this is how UK
police
stop someone with a knife and he talks about how
a cuz you may put Powell I'm I'm
I'm probably mispronouncing his name 25-year-old like ben was
killed in Saint Louis in and this is a this is
quite interesting is how to other police forces around the world deal with
knife-wielding attackers
the resort to the same lethal tactics when presented with a potential threat
let's look at the UK bennett courses from the UK
a and many puts couple YouTube's in there here's a guy with a machete
standing outside Buckingham Palace
the police shooting with a taser gun
in many cases in in in the UK
in fact in most cases releases let's look at you the UK a nation where the
police in most cases do not carry firearms
they bring this guy down the Taser
in another video knife-wielding man who appears to have serious mental health
issues is surrounded by dozens of police officers you cause I
after them but the police avoid danger by in print this is shock
moving out of the way
you know it's its
is the
it sober you know Ben Cohen is making the point that there's a variety of ways
that we can deal with these
situations short of you know
pumpin seven eight nine boards into somebody