I’ve been wondering if this was a tragic error. The victim doesn’t know if he’s being spoofed by a civilian-looking guy who may be a criminal and the cop goes hot when he sees a weapon.
Dunno. Don’t know how we’ll ever know, for sure. Is there video of the incident from the unmarked car dash?
Not implying anything, but when is it good practice for undercover officers to investigate abandoned cars?
Maybe that is SOP there, but here, the uniforms handle it in a marked unit.
Gun grabbers at the Washington Post be saying this whole tragedy could’ve been averted by banning citizenry gun ownership and letting officers (in unmarked cars) be the only ones who are armed (and ‘never’ use their guns in the wrong manner and ‘always’ show up in time to protect you with their gun).
Sounds suspicious....
Most people would be wary/on high alert if stuck on the side of a freeway late at night. A ripe target for passing thugs looking for easy pickings. At that hour, anything other than a tow truck or cop car pulls up, any sane person would have a hand on their sidearm.
We don’t get too many visibly armed black guys in PBG - that’s more prevalent down in WPB. (just stating the ‘stereotype’ - what probably was going through officer’s head). PBG is fairly quiet - low percentage of violent crimes. With that said - I think it was a bad reaction by the officer - overreaction (ya think?) and ended tragically. The stupid part of this tragedy is that it plays well into the Obama/Confiscators/Liam Neeson/Julianne Moore/Al Sharpton meme that it’s going to become a circus down here very shortly.