https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iND23AFZXdw&feature=youtu.be
that video doesn’t show much.
The tragedy is that it took them 12 months to charge this crappy cop. Cops like this make the entire force look bad.
Minimum response, if there is an imminent threat, is two rounds to center mass to neutralize the threat. Then you reassess while making sure there are no other threats. 16 rounds, when there was no imminent threat, is going to send this officer away for long time.
As I understand it several rounds hit him in the back. And he was shot numerous times while lying on the ground. Once he was on the ground he was not a threat to anyone.
I just believe that way too many cops are way too trigger happy. (Not all cops.) I remember in the old days if a cop had to kill someone the cop would be devastated. I had a relative cop who had to kill someone in self defense. He pointed a shotgun at the cop and the cop shot him. Turns out the shotgun wasn’t loaded. My family member never got over killing a man. He went to his grave with regret. It doesn’t seem to bother the cops one bit to kill someone today. Too many video games, I guess.
JMO
Poor McDonald, having to keep his hand in his pocket to hold up his pants. There, but for the grace of a belt, went he.
This shoot was wrong. There is no way to justify what this cop did.
A lot of Monday morning quarterbacks out there. Someone has to police a violent and belligerent inner city population and I for one am willing to give the cops the benefit of the doubt.
I don’t understand the first degree murder charge or why it took a whole year for this to come out.
It’s not that unusual for someone to empty a whole magazine without realizing it when the adrenaline is pumping.
They are charging him with 1st degree because it will be harder to get a conviction.If a jury acquits him it is not on the city government, they can say they tried.
I hope most FReepers don’t subscribe to this author’s opinion that it is “railroading” a white cop. The cop was wrong, and now he is going to pay. Anyone trained in deadly force knows that, and that is why the case was referred to the DA.
How long were they in vehicle pursuit? 5 or 10 minutes?
This should have been more than enough time to to arrange for non-lethal weapons to be deployed or brought in.
I am going with the culturally appropriate answer of a “seemed to be teens, attacking flash mob”.
They overcharged, for sure.
This will be a double plus good event for the community agitator in chief. First, he gets his love of riots and protests from his BLM shock troops. The DA over charges the officer with first degree murder. There is no evidence to prove this officer woke up and deliberately set out to murder this drug addled individual who was wielding a knife. When the officer is either acquitted of that charge then all hell will break loose.
16 bullets is 15 too many just about any way you look at it.
The questioner acts as though there is a physical standard for police when in fact there isnt. This wasn’t a hard question to answer 50 years ago.
“How Should Police Stop A Knife-Swinging Laquan On PCP?”
I don’t know, maybe shoot him 16 times?
Don’t know if it is the case, but I beleive most cops have tasers? Most I have known and do know carry them. Shoot the taser first, was that done?
The guy wasn’t charging them, was walking sideways and possibly away from them. Murder, clearly murder.
I don’t understand the riots and crap because they charged him with murder, and rightly so.