These police shootings are becoming so similar that I’m finding it difficult what to say about them, hence the unimaginative title. Thug with knife attacks officers with guns, and thug gets killed. But when justice is done, as it is here, it must be seen.
Maryland police have released body camera footage of an officer fatally shooting a man who rushed toward him with a knife.
The shooting happened Thursday in White Oak, just outside Washington.
The officer involved in the shooting was identified as Montgomery County Police Sgt. David Cohen. The department released the video Friday.
“Put the knife down!” Cohen, with his gun drawn, is heard screaming as the man runs toward him and then stops before backing away.
“Get on the ground! I don’t want to shoot you!” Cohen shouts just before the man starts running at him a second time.
Moments later, the officer shoots the man in the chest. Five gunshots can be heard on the video.
Five rounds to the chest and his lungs didn’t fly out his back like Joe Biden says happens in cases like this. Imagine that? So let’s get to it!
And one more thing. Why wasn’t he wearing a mask and staying home? Didn’t he know there’s a pandemic going on?
Authorities identified the man who was shot as Finan Berhe, 30, of White Oak.
Police said the knife Berhe was brandishing was recovered at the scene.
A neighbor of Berhe’s had called 911 to report that Berhe had thrown a rock at his window and had told him “to call the police,” The Washington Post reported.
Montgomery County Police Chief Marcus Jones said Cohen rendered first aid to Berhe, who died at the hospital, the paper reported.
Prosecutors from neighboring Howard County, under a standing agreement to review each other’s police shootings, are investigating, according to the paper. Berhe was black; the officer is white.
So friggin’ what? He was black. More correctly, he still is only just not as animated as he once was. But the media just HAS to fan the race flames by pointing out that tidbit that has nothing to do with anything! Once again, dude had a knife, dude attacks, dude gets goodified. The end.
Cohen, a 17-year veteran of the department, was placed on administrative leave, a standard procedure after a police shooting.
Good job, officer! And to all our LEOs, thank you taking thugs like these out of our society.
