Those cameras sure do malfunction at the oddest times...

Why would anyone move to Cincinnati?

There is a way to blame the Portland Police for this. I know there is.

"cool places exist outside of Multnomah County and Cincy actually is one of them."

I can attest that the first part of that sentence is true, but the second part is laughably false. Cincinnati sucks worse than Cleveland, let's put it that way.

@somebody else - Well, this sure looks fishy - I wonder if he even had a knife? But to answer your question: 'If he DID, and tried to use it, why aren't police trained to handle it without shooting the guy?'

It's because they are police, and not superheroes. They don't have to wrestle with armed people. If they did, even if they won 9 out of 10 fights...you'd still need to have a police funeral every 10 days. It's their job, their career - they have every right to live to 85, the same as you. That means getting their daily risk down really low, the same as you enjoy at your job.

But I repeat - this sounds like it was something awful, and not good police work...

I'm really sorry for this person's friends and family - this must be a truly awful time for them. With that said:

@ cd, which details? The quotes from the person who called the police (Weller) said Hebert grabbed a knife in his home while on mushrooms and tried to rob him.

13 minutes later, he was shot dead. Is it that implausible that he brandished the knife at police? If that's true, how close should the cops have to allow him to get before they're allowed to defend themselves?

I'm no friend of the police, but the juvenile assumption that they're all psychopaths with itchy trigger fingers simply isn't borne out in reality (i.e. thousands and thousands of interactions with dangerous/intoxicated/mentally ill/angry people every day that don't end in violence).

CC +1

Note to self: if someone points a gun at you and tells you to drop your knife, maybe it'd be best to just drop the knife rather than run at them with the knife.

Fun fact: A person with a knife standing 20 feet from you can reach you with the knife faster than you can draw a gun.

I was in Cincinnati, in the heart of it for the Riots, I thought the city would change..

People move back to Cincinnati because it is the region you are from and there are a lot of people who love you there. There are a lot of people in Cincinnati who loved him.
There is serious doubt that he "lunged".. stumbled, we can all believe... but "lunged" No way... none of his friends believe it.
Bones may have had a habit of pissing in public at times but has had no history of violence. Some how the knife was thrown behind where Bones was standing and broke the front window of the house they were in front of. Why? still unknown. Don't know if it happened before or after the shots and who threw it
Fact: a man who barely weighs 120 pounds and is drunk couldn't manage to do anything while surrounded by armored men that would constitute anything that even sounded close to deadly.
Fact: The police are suppose to protect and serve - not just protect and serve drunk people who can't remember what arm they got "cut" in
Listen to the 911 call... http://news.cincinnati.com/assets/AB173379…
Fact: Cincinnati Police are afraid of anybody outside of the "norm"
Fact: Portland police have the SAME problem. Everywhere I go I've been telling people Bone's story... everywhere I go, People are sharing their stories of police violence. The problem is systemic.

Bones was complying with Officer Johnson's orders to stand, step towards him, and produce the knife when he was shot by Sergeant Mitchell, who had not heard the orders and took them as aggression. Mitchell was already being sued for repeatedly tazing an innocent and oblivious teen in the back of the neck on another burglary false alarm. Bones may have thrown the knife when he saw Officer Johnson panic: it was found 25 feet away. The Cincinnati Enquirer found that the police violated their training and procedures when they recklessly approached Bones, who they suspected of possessing a pirate sword. The homicide investigation report is riddled with inaccuracies and errors and simply served to exonerate the officers. The CPD has an ingrained culture of hostility to civil oversight.
www.friendsofBones.org