SJWs Savage Cops for Killing Homeless Man, Don't Report Who He Really Was
It sounded pretty horrible, at least to liberals:
A police officer shot and killed a homeless man who was inside another man’s house. The incident — which happened in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday — sparked outrage on Twitter.
“A Portland police officer shot and killed a man today after a landlord reported a stranger who appeared to be homeless and suffering from a mental illness lying on a tenant’s door stoop. ‘I thought I should call the police, they could help him. …'” @pdxlawgrrrl tweeted.
“Another Portland Police officer shot another mentally ill person. It’s like a killing field here. No one will be convicted or even tried. Nothing will be done. The Mayor @tedwheeler doesn’t care. No one cares. We’ll all move on. It will happen again soon,” @davidminpdx tweeted.
A Portland police officer shot and killed a man today after a landlord reported a stranger who appeared to be homeless and suffering from a mental illness lying on a tenant’s door stoop. “I thought I should call the police, they could help him. …” https://t.co/9otEaHDm1f
— pdx law grrrl (@pdxlawgrrrl) January 7, 2019
Another Portland Police officer shot another mentally ill person. It’s like a killing field here. No one will be convicted or even tried. Nothing will be done. The Mayor @tedwheeler doesn’t care. No one cares. We’ll all move on. It will happen again soon. https://t.co/KZWIdUdTlN
— David Menschel (@davidminpdx) January 7, 2019
And several social justice warriors even advised not calling police if at all possible:
Coming on the heels of your recent thread about the elderly homeless man who was sitting by your place in need of help this absolutely emphasizes the importance of NOT involving the police if at all possible.
— PurpleGimp (@PurpleGimp) January 7, 2019
I saw a tweet expressing sympathy…for the person who called the cops.
fellow white people, you all should know this by now:https://t.co/h4gWshDYSk
— Emily “unlikable, nasty woman” Cain (@data_bae) January 7, 2019
So, that was the social media take. What really happened? Well, it involved a man who had a martial-arts style throwing knife who couldn’t be taken down even with a Taser and posed an imminent threat to the life of the police officer. Does that change the story at all?
According to The Oregonian, a man began pounding on the door of Desmond Pescaia’s house about midday Sunday.
“Pescaia had opened the door to find the man on his doorstep, dressed in a blue shirt, khaki pants, socks but no shoes with a multicolored blanket,” the newspaper reported. “The man told him that ‘some guy named Ernest’ had directed him to the house to get help. The stranger claimed someone was after him, trying to kill him. He also told Pescaia he had been released from a hospital.”
Pescaia got the man water and offered him money for public transporation fare and food, but the man didn’t want it. Shortly thereafter, Pescaia saw the man sleeping on his front stoop. He called his landlord, who said he should call the police. The landlord also contacted law enforcement, as well.
“I just wanted police to have him trespassed from here,” Pescaia told reporters.
Officer Consider Vosu, who was in uniform, came to the scene.
“Once Vosu pulled up in a marked car, the man on the porch started pounding again on Pescaia’s front door. The man was shouting that he wouldn’t go with the officer because he had a fake badge, Pescaia recalled,” The Oregonian reported.
“Pescaia said he grabbed a walking stick and threatened the stranger, still outside.”
Pescaia told the man to leave or he would use it on him, according to The Oregonian. The officer, meanwhile, told Pesciaia to put the stick down, lest he also be arrested. He told Pescaia to close the door, but Pescaia left it open and remained in the doorway.
“When Pescaia put down the stick, he said the stranger burst through the front door and into the home,” The Oregonian reported.
Officer Vosu struggled with the man, trying to handcuff him. He managed to kick the officer backwards; Vosu said if he didn’t comply, he would be forced to Taser him. He didn’t comply, so the Taser was brought out. It didn’t work.
“He goes down and starts right back up, yelling ain’t no Taser was going to stop him,” Pescaia said.
“At some point, the intruder pulled out a martial arts-type throwing knife and ran toward the officer, the tenant said.
“Vosu, still in the back bedroom, this time fired three shots from his handgun — ‘at close range,’ Pescaia said. He estimated the stranger was less than 2 feet from the officer.”
So, just so we can review, a man who it turns out had a throwing knife camped out on this guy’s stoop. His landlord advised the tenant to call the police. The policeman, it seems, tried to do his best to use all appropriate force to stop this from turning into a major incident. He failed, and the intruder got into the house. He didn’t respond to directions and he took out a knife with the intention of using it on the officer.
And when the armed attacker was less than 24 inches away, the officer fired his weapon.
And SJWs are angry at the man who called police and the police officer. Even by Portland’s standards, that’s crazy.
I understand that this was a man who was likely severely disturbed. He was also an armed attempted burglar. He also tried to murder a police officer.
Could he have tried to murder someone else? That’s not outside the realm of possibility, particularly given the fact he likely would have come into contact with law enforcement at some point during this odyssey.
In other words, the social justice warriors are defending someone who was demonstrably violent to the point where he was attempting to murder a law enforcement official, and attacking the law enforcement official and the man whose house he broke into.
If those are your moral priorities, well, God love ‘ya, liberals.
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