That’s a shame and needs to change. From police accounts, it sounds like this was a tragedy, but I’m not sure they did anything wrong. At the same time, I can’t trust the word of cops anymore. Too many of them have been proven wrong too many times. And everyone is monitored and supervised at work, this should be no different.

...we're talking about Cambridge, MA, where it was national news that cops arrested a famous black professor at his own house, because a neighbor called in a break-in in progress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_controversy

So everyone that has a job with risk isn’t entitled to mitigating that risk with reasonable safety measures? It’s the dumbest most roundly circulated anti-police rhetoric that’s out there, and it’s all over these kinds of posts

Social media has hijacked the minds of the topically uninformed on so many issues, and either displaced the truth with inaccuracy or exaggerated viral stories into believing they are statistical norm. Progressives have also fallen victim to this, in the case of police conduct at large in the USA, as a whole. What you’re hearing in this sub on this issue could not be a clearer example of that, and it’s the reaction in nearly every liberal city’s sub whenever an issue involving mortal police enforcement ever arises no matter what the circumstances and no matter what evidence has been brought to light.

When you become a mortal threat you cede some leniency in what you seem to be innocuously framing as “mental health crisis”. Unfortunately that’s where we are as a society in 2023, maybe that will change with different tactics eventually but it’s not current operating procedure

I agree they probably don’t need to shoot that many shots

I'm not saying the man wasn't dangerous, but I've seen videos of police in Melbourne and London, apprehending a man with a machete without having to shoot him.

Lol the Cambridge police who haven’t been involved in a police shooting death in 20 years are looking to get embroiled by shooting someone without absolute just cause….? Someone who by all accounts was doing god knows the fuck what. GTFOH

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Seems like this is one of the posts where no matter you stand or what your position is, you’re likely to get downvoted.

I’ve been seeing those for at least a few years

Is there no such thing as a taser? Asking for all the people killed by cops

Shouldn't polices be trained to face situations like this? or at that point the aim should be to murder the suspect?

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You keep saying this over and over. I doubt it's as easy as you think when in a high pressure situation with a knife in your face to pull the trigger twice verses five times.

Gustazo in North Cambridge in INCREDIBLE. I also love Painted Burro in Davis Sq and The Abbey in Porter Sq. Happy birthday!

According to today's article in the Boston Globe, the Cambridge Police don't wear body cams.

Maybe Brick & Mortar does venue rentals? That would be a fun spot.

Please invite me too 🥳

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just because it's being "investigated" doesn't meany ou get to put down any lie about it you want

Police should release the body cam footage, but based on witness accounts and everything we know is there any evidence they did something wrong?

The eye witness who called the police said Faisal jumped through a glass window with a machete and was cutting himself. He then ran around the neighborhood and wouldn’t put the knife down.

Jfc people stop downvoting OP, even if you think the cops were justified in shooting we can still have a conversation.

Sarma in Somerville

Some self centered hack. Probably in middle school, judging by the apparent lack of skill.

The cops should have to use similar force. So in this case a machete fight would have been justified.