It sounds like it was a more than an average motorist summoning assistance.
He was a black football player which isn’t difficult to imagine in a threatening position but what are cops being trained to deal with if not worse case scenarios. Anyone can handle an average built Joe. Clearly procedure was not followed in this instance or the offending officer would not be in jail on a felony charge.
“Clearly procedure was not followed in this instance or the offending officer would not be in jail on a felony charge.”
That does not follow logically at all. There are plenty of people, including cops, charged with felonies because the person they had the negative interaction with was some kind of VIP or celebrity.
For some reason an officer tazed him, and then someone (same officer?) shot him. That implies a little bit of time, and some continuing rowdiness that escalated to a shooting.
Given the typical college football player, Florida urban mentality, the post Trayvon war on whites, the fact that he trashed his car out late, and the fact that he could not simply communicate to the homeowner “please call 911 for me, ive been in a car wreck”,, etc etc, I am going to bet he was a drunken menace of some sort.
I’ll wait for some facts. But for me, either could still be true, cop was trigger happy, or the dead guy the size of a house was an aggressive A-hole. Hard to tell yet.
Probably to forestall race riots.