The fact that he was shot twice in the back isn’t going to help here.
The officer stopped, fired and hit him in the back as he was running away with a tazer that had been fired. How is he a threat?
RE: The fact that he was shot twice in the back isn’t going to help here.
Why didn’t they just let Rayshard Brooks go after he fled? After all, they have all his details on file. They can arrest him later.
These cops are too trigger happy.
A friend of mine was a police officer. We talked about this last night. He said it was completely justified.
I believe him.
I do not believe the media.
There was a video linked here on FR a while back. It was a self defense shooting in a barber shop and the shot was to the back.
Agreed. This is not like the Ferguson case where Brown was advancing with malice on the officer. It is hard to rationalize shooting this fleeing subject in the back. If he got away where was he going to go? They had his car and I assume ID.
One of my more vivid memories of a similar incident from years back had the Army CID declared a man shot twice in the back of his head a suicide.
The fact that perp shot first at the cop isn't going to hurt the cop's case either
He was shot AFTER Brooks shot at the officer. That would be the key detail.