Amen (pun intended). My parents are Baptists, had most of us kids baptized Catholic, had my youngest brother baptized Baptist, my oldest sister became a Buddhist and I’m pretty much non-religious. So you’re spot on.

Haven’t seen it yet but did they broach the fact that in an earlier episode it was revealed the family weren’t regular church-goers? Not that that’s a deal-breaker on religious “devotion” but that episode made it clear they weren’t going to become everyday churchgoers and deeply religious.

Good question. I looked it up and there was.

He probably wanted that to happen so he could show how violent “they” are.

BEETLEJUICE!

This. It’s better they did take the sign out of their world of parody and snark. They would have done the movement justice.

They are serious AF

I’ve know mentally ill guys who swore everyone on the bus, including the driver, was the devil and out to get him (RIP Wesley Willis). Even him walking in the street is not solid evidence he wanted to get hit unless, again, we know his level of illness, which again none of us do. So you’re, the OP, my assessments are…

And at this point, talking with one of my friends,

Same. Just as he’s free to kneel, he’s free to have this opinion. I believe he’s dead wrong and hope he (and we) won’t be the position to actually discover that, but, sure Kap, whatever.

Exactly. He might have...and he might have not. So why is anyone here making a definitive statement about what his intentions were? No one has any inkling about what his level of mental illness was. So declaring it suicide by cop is a wild guess, not a fact.

Define suicide, idiot. Nevermind I’ll do it for you.

Suicide is an intentional act with the desired result being your own death. You think a man with mental issues clearly thought out this plan and was well aware that it would end in his death.

Fuck you, you fucking idiot. The man is clearly described as having mental issues so you don’t know what his fucking mental state was. But then again you seem to have mental issues too, so I guess you would know.

Suicide by cop? You saying he WANTED to die?

If you can’t tell what the suspect has in his hands after sitting here and studying a still photograph it at leisure, then how do you expect an officer to in the 0.5 seconds he has to react to it to save his life?

Wow, that’s fucking commitment.

I assume Weld just rolled his eyes, threw his hands up and said, “Jesus, what the fuck am I doing?” and walked off the stage.

Nah. “Putin” would fly outta his mouth before the question was even finished.

Just saw this on CNN. Police are being praised for releasing this photo so quickly but I think it’s only because it seems to support their case. The guy does appear to be in a shooting pose but you can’t tell what, if anything, he has in his hands. Things happen in a split second so maybe they did thing he had…