[Repealthe17thAmendment]

I admit that I generally will support the police on these shootings, as I don't believe an officer ever really wants to be involved in a shooting. However, in this case, it does not look like a good shoot. The guy in the apartment did not raise the gun from his side.

We are always making the case that guns are not dangerous, yet it seems this deputy shot just because he saw a gun. It was not a threat, however.

Of course, the racial dynamics are going to bring a whole different level of controversy, but unless there is something in the background of the deputy that indicates any sort of racial bias, I don't see how that had anything to do with it.

The deputy should plead guilty to some type of manslaughter and do some time.

[Openurmind]

“The deputy should plead guilty to some type of manslaughter and do some time.”

Why when you have a standing get out of jail free card?

[Does so]

“We are always making the case that guns are not dangerous, yet it seems this deputy shot just because he saw a gun. It was not a threat, however”.

As a LEO, I was subjected to a “shoot/don’t shoot” video and handed a revolver with an electrically-connected trigger.

In the mall scene, the “subject” ran up to me with one hand behind his back. When he got to about ten feet of me, he whipped out a sawed-off shotgun and fired it at my head. I ‘shot’ him just before a blur of lead shot passed by my head.

By the reaction of the police instructors in attendance, no other officer had gotten off his shot!