to add a bit:
The car was actively driven into oncoming traffic. Then abandoned with the ‘it’s on fire, it’s going to blow’ screams. The deceased was supposed to be at his first day of ‘music appreciation’ at the local jr. college - he never made it.
The officer did not see Crutcher - he walked up silently behind her. We don’t know if she was back at her cruiser or at his vehicle, but...
From the very first frames of the chopper cam: officer is behind her vehicle at passenger rear quarter panel; deceased is at front quarter panel same side. How’d she get behind her vehicle? Was the deceased wandering? It takes her 10 seconds to get to front grill, where she momentarily takes a defensive stance, leaning against the car. Second and third units arrive. Deceased notices and quickens his pace - it take him 6 seconds to go from the front side of the cruiser to the left rear panel of his vehicle - about a vehicle and a half distance.
Sister stated last night on tv that ‘one thing people don’t know about my brother’ is that he has a glass eye AND a ‘hearing problem.’ Was he ‘glowering’ because he only had one eye? And if he only had one eye, why was he driving in the first place? Who in his family trusted a drug felon to go to college the first day unaccompanied? Pretty stressful for someone fresh out of a 10yr lockup. Not to mention how freely drugs flow on college campuses.
Let’s get into his drug-addled head: Promises his family he will go straight and narrow. Can’t take the pressure. Gets high in a very public way - no hiding it. Girl cop is not going to let him go. He’s going back to jail and his kids are going to write him off for good. He’s got nothing to lose but he doesn’t want a girl to shoot him so he waits for the male cops to show. Suicide by cop and his kids get rich. He dies a hero instead of a loser. Family gets a three-figure gofundme prize.
The girl cop shot him, but the person who killed him is the person who sold him the PCP. And the accessory is the family member who gave a half-blind and deaf man a vehicle to drive.
“The officer did not see Crutcher - he walked up silently behind her. We don’t know if she was back at her cruiser or at his vehicle, but...”
Two hours of “back that azz up” and a certificate. He would have been set for life.
“The girl cop shot him, but the person who killed him is the person who sold him the PCP. And the accessory is the family member who gave a half-blind and deaf man a vehicle to drive.”
Yes, but she’s been charged with First Degree Manslaughter, so evidently the PD and the DA see the possibility of a criminal act on the her part.
Nonsense. The perp is responsible for his own actions. He made the decision to do drugs and then disobey the lawful commands of the police officer.