'Drop the gun!': Police release harrowing footage of cops shooting and killing an.......

dailymail.uk ^ | January 27, 2017 | Keith Griffith For Dailymail.com

[Morgana]

FULL TITLE: 'Drop the gun!': Police release harrowing footage of cops shooting and killing an 18-year-old suspect just moments after he opened fire on a bus and drew his weapon at the officers

Police in Charlotte, North Carolina on Thursday released hours of footage related to the fatal police shooting of an armed suspect, under the first test of a state law expected to make such releases more routine.

The harrowing encounter took place in June of 2016, as police were searching for a suspect in a gang-rivalry shooting on a public bus.

Shot dead was 18-year-old Rodney Rodriguez Smith. Smith's grandmother, Linda Woodard, had questioned the official account of his death, saying that Smith had texted his girlfriend around the time of the shooting, the Charlotte Observer reported.

The newly released video upheld officers' accounts of the shooting.

[Morgana]

This dude looks so evil not sure if we should call the police or call a priest for an exorcism.

[Darteaus94025]

“He has just enrolled at Stanford, and was turning his life around...”

[Terry L Smith]

One less thug to waste tax dollars on, while housing, feeding, and paying public defenders.

[Ray76]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dne8aTg8WVY

[Safetgiver]

He do have an excellent “X” to shoot between his eyes, though. If you hit it I think you get an excellent score.

[Menehune56]

O.M.G.

[Bob]

An aspiring expiring expired rapper, no doubt.

[Doogle]

...sheeeesh ..black Chuckie

[PAR35]

Looked like a tattooed thug with a gun. Wait - that was one of the cops.

[a fool in paradise]

...killing an gunman

[Pearls Before Swine]

“If I had a son...”

[zek157]

That’s a nice looking guy mama raised.

[Charles Martel]

This dude looks so evil not sure if we should call the police or call a priest for an exorcism.

No kidding. That's a lot of evil to soak up in only 18 years.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

just moments after he opened fire on a bus and drew his weapon at the officers

See, he was training to be a police officer! What if there was a suspected terrorist on the bus?

[School of Rational Thought]

Suicide by cop.

Training shown, nice tactical reload use of cover.

[Penelope Dreadful]

No, he was practicing his rhymes and moves for a rap video!

[School of Rational Thought]

Although, cop exposed himself on approach before taking cover.

And second cop holsters his weapon after initial shots fired and before second series of shots.

Mixed score but good outcome.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Another dead thug. Good.

[cradle of freedom]

Not even a grandmother could love this.

[Sasparilla]

How many shots by the cop? 21? Good case for high capacity magazines.