[kushie18]

April 17, 2024. Knoxville Police Department body camera video from the April 17 police shooting of William Charles McBride Jr. shows the man, armed with two knives, lunging once at a bystander and once at a police officer who shot him outside a Fountain City gas station.

McBride, 41, died from his gunshot wounds hours later at a hospital where he was taken for treatment.

The video from officer Seth Beeler's bodycam released by the department May 1 includes a slow motion segment of the encounter.

[Roosta]

CRAZY.

[mothmon]

You have to wonder if these guys are off their meds and just psychotic and having a manic episode, in which case you wish there was some other non-lethal way to handle it; or you have to wonder if they're just violent sociopaths that want to feel powerful and bad-ass terrorizing others, in which case you wish they would be mag-dumped on the spot But the guy really shouldn't have rushed out like that towards the cop dual-wielding his knives Whether this is a strategy or a victory I don't know

[mothmon]

^tragedy

[houseoftechno]

The cop handled that like a champ. All business. He behaved like his shoots down assailants every other day.

[Ms420247]

Originally Posted by mothmon ↗

You have to wonder if these guys are off their meds and just psychotic and having a manic episode, in which case you wish there was some other non-lethal way to handle it; or you have to wonder if they're just violent sociopaths that want to feel powerful and bad-ass terrorizing others, in which case you wish they would be mag-dumped on the spot But the guy really shouldn't have rushed out like that towards the cop dual-wielding his knives Whether this is a strategy or a victory I don't know

You go disarm a man with a knife ya fucking idiot

[mothmon]

Originally Posted by Ms420247 ↗

You go disarm a man with a knife ya fucking idiot

Why take chances that you get fatally nicked? You must be from some third world shithole, pedro, where the cops are so sloppy and inept they circle a suspect who's holding a knife and then shoot each other in the cross fire or, more common, get fatally stabbed. Fuck off, cunt

[Vincentsdream]

I've literally seen US cops do that. There is a video of them unloading on a guy actively wrestling with a cop lmao.

[kellyhound]

had a hunch and it was right

The family said William McBride Jr. was a loving man who struggled with PTSD from his military service: "He just hadn't had any peace since he came back."

His family called the Iraq combat veteran a "gentle giant" and "best friend," asking people not to judge their loved one — who they say struggled with a decades-long battle with post-traumatic stress disorder and drug use to cope with horrors he experienced overseas.

McBride's wife, Elisha McBride, and his stepdaughter, Charish Johansen said he graduated a few years ago from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor of science in social work. They said he was trying to help fellow veterans struggling with homelessness.

People on Facebook have their own scenarios that go on, and I don't like seeing them drag his name in dirt, because he really was a good man and has done a lot for people," his stepdaughter said. "He was amazing. He did a lot of good things for me and my mother... Take us on trips, spoil us. He made sure we had the best of the best."

Johansen said her stepfather was her best friend. She said he lived with her and her mother for years, but he recently left the household to be with his parents in Mississippi after he "got into drugs really bad." She said he had just returned to Knoxville last week.

His wife, Elisha McBride, said she met her husband ten years ago. The two had been married for seven years. She said he joined the military out of high school and was discharged in 2004.

"He just hadn't had any peace since he's come back," she said.

Elisha McBride said her husband would leave the house whenever he was "on his mission." She said his PTSD made him believe at times he was back at war in Iraq, and to cope he sometimes used drugs such as crack cocaine and methamphetamine.

"He never brung it to the house. He never brung anyone to the house whenever he was on it. Whenever he was tired and ready to come back home he would come back home," she said. "He thought people were coming to kill him. He was trying to run from — which was 'demons' — but it was people from the war who was trying to get to him."

Elisha said her husband wouldn't leave for more than a month usually and sometimes would be okay for months to even a year. She said he would be in and out of the hospital and rehab.

"Sometimes the demons would come back into his head and he would just run off," she said. "He was a gentle giant. He wouldn't want me to see him like that because he was embarrassed."

Elisha said she last spoke to her husband around 4 a.m. on the day he died, after he accidentally texted her. She said she did not believe he was holding a knife at the time he was leaving the Exxon station when the officer shot him.

"We have had our mistakes, don't get me wrong, but he's a gentle giant. He wouldn't hurt a soul," she said. "He was romantic, he was kind, we would just cuddle up and watch TV, play with the dog. He was my best friend, and they took my best friend away from me."

Elisha said her husband would often go to the Fountain City Duck Pond across the street from the Exxon station to clear his mind or go fishing. On Tuesday, she was woken up by the TBI at her door and she learned he had died.

"A big teddy bear was all he was. He took care of my kid since she was 9 years old. He also went through me having to bury another kid," she said, also saying he was by her side through several difficult times in their family.

"PTSD has hurt a lot of our young men. Going into a war zone at 21 years old was no easy task for him or his family," she said. "Only part of them come back home."

McBride's mother-in-law, Debbie Johnson, said despite his battle with drug use — he wasn't "this drug-crazed maniac" that some people were making him out to be.

"He did treatment. He did everything he could. Iraq messed him up," she said. "He was a good man when he was to himself. You couldn't ask for a better person. He didn't do drugs because he was an addict. He did drugs because it was an escape — trying to get out his head the things he saw in the war that he couldn't live with."

[rbz1819]

This one is really sad.