Agree. Cops are ultimately responsible for pulling the trigger on fleeing or even resisting suspects unless they pose a deadly threat.
Driving away high speed or running from police causes an adrenaline dump. That leads to poor decisions. Saying these suspects bear no fault at all is a stretch. But for their running, they’d be alive today.
Why do they run? I was taught to stop and work through it and let the Lawyers handle it and deal with it.
If a man is so emotionally weak that he can’t handle chasing someone without losing total control of himself and he totally forgets what his job is and that he is at work, then he should never have been a cop.
That was a very lame excuse, chasing people is just a routine part of being a cop and always has been.
The old guy was in shock by his own actions. That was inordinately clear. Hard to believe, but it happened here.
You’re right he pulled the trigger. Even apologized to the suspect who had just minutes left to live. The suspect is dead, the officer will never be the same in this case. No winners here. A collosal deadly mistake.
So, if you assaulted me and ran away, I’d be okay shooting you to death? You don’t really propose a different standard for cops’ adrenaline vs citizen adrenaline, do you?
Fight or flight is an instinctive response to attempts at capture. The suspect’s adrenaline is stoked too, and they may not make the best decisions under those conditions.
Oh! Well, thank you, now I see it’s ok to kill someone if you’re a cop. Running away is reason to kill. Got it.
You might as well say that except for going to school, those kids who were shot, wouldn’t have been shot.