"The Emergency Service Unit also functions as a Special Weapons and Tactical Unit (SWAT) and NYPD hostage negotiators assist and secure the safety of hostages. Members of "ESU" are cross trained in multiple disciplines for police and rescue work."
Either one of their members forgot his training or did as he was trained.
Watch carefully as we will be told that this elite ESU force has not been trained in how to do traffic stops.
The cops had been cut off twice by an erratic driver who then attempted to flle. At 5 in the morning. When he was finally forced to pull over by being “boxed in”, the cops approached the vehicle with apprehension and extreme caution (obviously).
Moments later the driver was shot dead.
In my opinion there are three possible reasons for the shoooting
1. The cop murdered the driver in cold blood in front of a lot of witnesses.
2. The cop fired his weapon unintentionally, perhaps out of nervousness or a hair trigger or some other reason. (And yeah, “another reason” the cop had a tight grip on his weapon could be that the cop was pissed because the driver had cut him off twice on a highway at night, thereby endangering his life and the lives of the other passengers.)
3. The driver continued to act stupidly, and did indeed reach down toward the floor of his dark vehicle as the cop’s weapon was trained on him, at which point the cop fired. (And yeah, maybe the “road enraged” cop just wanted an excuse, any excuse, to shoot the driver. ... And the driver was helpful.)
Regardless of the above possibilities, it was the driver who put himself in a position to suffer this tragedy.
In any event I feel badly for everybody involved.
That'll be a little hard to claim seeing as they more than likely started out as rookies, and had to do that in their early years with the force. And I'm sure that they all undergo mandatory training and refresher courses every year.