NBA season will be cancelled by Wednesday.

James Harden and Boom just breathed a sigh of relief

How about WNBA players dressing up with a serial rapists name on their shirts? You are a pathetic piece of shite if youre on the Justice for Jacob Blake train

It’s almost like whether nba players play or don’t play has nothing to do with whether cops shoot potentially armed suspects in the heat of the moment

The dude had a semi automatic weapon

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“Our suspect was holding some items of clothing in his hands, punched one of the officers in the face and then dropped the items in his hands,” the lieutenant said.

“The deputies noticed that inside the clothing items that he dropped was a black semi-automatic handgun.”

Two officers then opened fire and the man was struck by gunfire several times, Dean said.

The man, identified only as a Black man in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

The lieutenant said the man was struck several times, “however we are unaware of exactly where, as we have not been able to move the body yet as we were waiting for the coroner’s office.”

“We still have to conduct our interviews of the investigating officers to see exactly what happened and transpired during the deputy-involved-shooting,” Dean said in response to questions on what prompted the use of force. “But if this individual was reaching for a semi-automatic handgun, I would suggest that, you know, that’s probably why deadly force was important.”

The man’s black semi-automatic handgun was recovered at the scene, officials said.

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I hope they do. The guy dunking the fries at my local McDonald’s has been turrible lately.

I man can only dream

There has to be more to the story. Doesn't seem right to shoot the guy because he has a gun if the gun is just in a pile of clothes on the ground.

I'm waiting for more information to come out before I really make an opinion. But if it what the article states is completely true(which admittedly is a huge if) he dropped his clothes along with the gun on the ground, that is when he was shot.

If they shot him as soon as they spotted a weapon sitting on the ground, that is a bad shoot. If he tried to lunge for the weapon, then obviously it is justified.

The term "hoisted with their own petard" comes to mind.

The NBA players are too immature, ignorant and misguided to realize that one aspect of this shutdown has been that people have had to adapt with no sports and in doing so, have figured out they can go without sports. Combine that with the fact that you are alienating a LARGE portion of your potential customer base (i.e. White people. Who much to their chagrin still make up nearly 80% of the US population and the overwhelming majority of the NBA's consumer base) and the value of the league could quickly come crashing down. A league where the dumbass players are only hurting themselves in light of the fact they share the revenue with the owners. Sorry, "Governors".

It would be akin to having a business partner purposely tanking your business's revenue on the premises of demanding that YOU (the other business partner) fix a purported issue (police violence) that YOU literally have no power to fix

Going forth with this hyperbolic ridiculousness in normal times is dicey. But doing it a THE EXACT SAME TIME many people for the first time ever are realizing sports aren't as important to them as they once were is completely asinine. The owners, commissioner, TV people and money people know this. Unfortunately, they can't get that message through to the players. Of course, that's what happens when your workforce is largely uneducated, ill-informed and easily misguided.