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He deescalated by retreating, he moved backwards, again ordering the individual to drop the weapon… You can’t use a less lethal if someone is attacking you with a knife.

Police John Drake

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I’m sure he did have a Taser, our officers are issued Taser, but in those situations – that’s a lethal situation, he deescalated by retreating, he moved backwards, again ordering the individual to drop the weapon… You can’t use a less lethal if someone is attacking you with a knife.

Police John Drake

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Now they're not pulling people out of cars and attacking people on the sidewalk, and stuff like that, but to say that Parker County and Texas in general, doesn't have a racial problem says to me that you're not paying attention.

Eddie Burnett

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The facts should be determined, but the left doesn't care aboutthe facts, they care aboutdemonizing and attacking lawenforcement and I think it'swrong.

The Texas lawmaker

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I can kind of tell when he comes out, just the look in his eyes, attacking from the beginning, what type of night it’s going to be for him. He’s had that a lot lately. Hopefully, we can continue to help him and turn that into wins.

Draymond Green

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I just try to do the same thing that I always do, which is: make sure the other team doesn’t score. … I want them taking shots that are not comfortable taking and contested. Tonight, they kept attacking the rim, so I kept being there.

Rudy Gobert

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It would be hard for anyone to really make a lot of money attacking states because every county is different, creating a large nationwide system would just be too difficult to set up.

Ben Warlick

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Democrats know the midterm history, and we also know we can make our own history, while Republicans are attacking each other, our party is entering the midterms in a stronger position than we've been in for a generation, and we're going to keep doing everything in our power to help Democrats keep winning at every level of the ballot across the country.

David Bergstein

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I couldn’t guard a stick today, they were going right around me, and I was getting frustrated, but they kept attacking.

Kyrie Irving

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Cori Bush, Cori Bush's accusing me of attacking Cori Bush and claiming Cori Bush's got tomove heroffice. No. That's crazy, i'm just so lucky that I was actually ranting and raving about that stuff onFacebook LivethatI have that video.

Marjorie Taylor

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Like any legitimate business, attacking health and education sectors has proved to be profitable, they may also be softer targets. In the case of health care, they have unusually large attack surfaces spanning various networks and medical devices.

Brett Callow

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Russia has been the leader in using new technologies to attack targets in covert and confusing ways. Russia is an active leader in what strategists are calling the gray zone of warfare attacks in the gray zone between war and peace, attacking U.S. diplomats in Cuba and China are likely experimentation with this weapon but also serves the political interests of antagonizing U.S. relations with Cuba and China and creates fear, disruptionand distraction among U.S. diplomats and officials.

Nick Dowling

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The USDA is attacking us because of Tiger King. It made them look like a bunch of buffoons, you know, the Doc Antles, Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin - it looks like The USDA was supervising a freak show and not doing anything about this flagrant trafficking of tiger cubs.

Jeff Lowe

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

As challenging as it can be from businesses to relationships to anything else, if we ground ourselves in the respect to hear the other side, differentiate our opinion from proven and vetted facts, while remove the insulting and attacking elements, we can create impactful conversations of change.

Loren Weisman

added by anonymous
3 years ago

People were not terribly happy about having to fight the second [ war ]. There was certainly no support for fighting Nazi Germany during the Second World War. There was obviously for fighting the Japanese because Japan made the serious mistake of attacking us, but there was, there was great reluctance to be involved in these wars.

Douglas Macgregor

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Covid-19 cases are at record highs today, rather than attacking us and lobbing baseless charges at physicians, our leaders should be following the science and urging adherence to the public health steps we know work -- wearing a mask, washing hands and practicing physical distancing.

Susan Bailey

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Iran kept provoking the U.S. by hijacking oil tankers, shooting down a drone, and then attacking the Saudi Arabia Aramco facilities, trump only reacted militarily after the American Embassy was attacked in Iran.

Harley Lippin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The unwarranted attacks on this event, originated by those besmirching the community, are detached from the facts, it's sad that nobody verified our plans before attacking us.

Chaim Jacobowitz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You know, the fact that after a plot to kidnap and to kill me, this is what they come out with. They start attacking me, opposed to what good, decent people would do is to check in and say,' Are you OK ?' Which is what Joe Biden did.

Gretchen Whitmer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We're all united standing against anyone who would conspire to cause such hatred and violence. And there is no place for that in American society in any way, shape, or form, but why Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer would go and start attacking President President Trump, this is just -- people can see right through it. They can see that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and it is just disgusting that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer would take a moment of unity to attack the President.

Jason Miller

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You know, the fact that after a plot to kidnap and to kill me, this is what they come out with. They start attacking me, as opposed to what good, decent people would do is to check in and say,' Are you OK ?' -- which is what( Democratic presidential nominee) Joe Biden did.

Governor Whitmer of Michigan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

United States has been continuously attacking Read MoreAnalysts and [ the latest restriction ] has posed great challenges to Read MoreAnalysts operations.

Guo Ping

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I went there to make sure, as the owner of the company, that nothing serious would go down. I wanted to make sure everything wasgoing to be cool, as soon as we entered that park, they started verbally attacking us ... calling us all kinds of names like sellouts and [telling us] what they would do to us.

Ricky McGhee

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We have aFirst Amendmentin the country, and for whatever reason, there seems to be this opposition that thinks we cant do that. They have been attacking us for years. Really for decades in the grand scheme of things but very heavily in Portland.

Chandler Pappas

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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