[Persevero]

There is a cop hating brigade on FR, no question about it.

I know there are bad cops, but, I know there are good ones, too.

What bothers me about this is the missing tapes. Why? I think they are hiding something. It smells.

If the tapes were provided I’d feel more comfortable that justice was being served.

[Lurker]

What bothers me about this is the missing tapes.

They're not missing. They were sent to a forensic recovery firm paid by LV Metro PD. That firm says they're 'unrecoverable'. Mighty convenient that.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[skeeter]

I don't know which is worse - cop haters who seek to emasculate police departments without just cause or those who give LEO uses of force every benefit of a doubt, regardless of how badly they smell, which in the end leads to the emasculation of the force anyway.

Both menace the public.

[Ramius]

I’m usually one to generally defend police decisions, all else being equal. They’ve got a hard job to do. They generally only see the worst parts of a city, and the worst people in it. They make an instantaneous reactive decision and suddenly somebody is dead. Hopefully, with good training, it was the right person for the right reasons.

This case, though, looks like an otherwise simple situation went way out of control due to bad information, bad communication, and bad judgment that came from inexperience. Two rookie cops faced what may have been their first or one of the first weapons-drawn situations. Heartrates rise, sweat pours, tunnel vision sets in and in a moment of unclarity... shots ring out. That results in more shots... and suddenly the wrong guy is dead.

It sure sounds like they blew it. I don’t have to believe that these are “bad” cops. Just rookie cops that with a few more years would have been cooler under pressure. A whole list of unlikely events all coincided at once and resulted in the worst of outcomes.