Dear Health,
If the Police shot Blake for refusing to drop the knife, that should be the main story line. Even the police union mentioned the knife as a side topic
You seem to be the only credible first hand source that understood it to be about the knife. Maybe you misheard.
So here is what we are left with:
1) Did the police notice that he had a knife?
2) Did they tell him to drop it?
3) Did that have any relevance to the shooting?
While the answer to the first two may be yes, the police are not confirming that it was so. Even if it was, the answer to the third question is NO. His back was to the police. If they are terrified of knives they did not have to follow him so closely. Et cetra, et cetra.
And most confounding (which is possibly the reason that even the police do not want to make the story about the knife) of all: Is there any way that holding a knife, would warrant the second round of shots?!?
Now, here was my ‘so what’ point. There were three armed officers. Against one person with a knife. If they feel compelled to shoot, they are in the wrong profession. Bagging groceries would be easier on their nerves.
(I have been at knifepoint multiple times. With one exception, I never had worse than some cuts on my hands. The only thing that you are forced in to against a knife wielder, is to not lose sight of the knife. In this short clip, the police seem oblivious.)