I've always acknowledged that shots were fired as he appeared to be trying to run the barricade.
What the video shows, and what you can't deny, is that once he exited the truck he ignored repeated demands to get on the ground, he kept shouting to the police to shoot him, and reached inside his jacket. All this after claiming publicly that he would rather die than go to jail and fleeing from the first stop.
It was more than 10 seconds from the time he exited the truck until he was shot.
As I've said, there's enough blame to go around but one only has to view that video to know that LaVoy was unstable and fully intended to go out in a blaze of glory.
I also think those who say the LEOs were out to kill him from that start aren't looking at what actually happened. They had hundreds of opportunities to shoot him earlier in the sequence and did so only after he reached inside his jacket for what turned out to be a gun.
What YOU seem to be trying to deny - which is shown clearly in the very video YOU posted is that as soon as he exited the vehicle, his hand went straight up and a shot was fired at him shattering the rear driver side window.
I've always acknowledged that shots were fired as he appeared to be trying to run avoid killing or injuring himself and others by veering away from the illegally placed (and might I reiterate, hidden around a blind curve and stretching from snowbank to snowbank with NO safe lane of passage) barricade.
It was more than 10 seconds from the time he exited the truck until he was shot.
But not more than 10s post exiting that he was shot AT - and YOU cannot deny that without "a willing suspension of disbelief."
As I've said, there's enough blame to go around but one only has to view that video to know that LaVoy was unstable and fully intended to go out in a blaze of glory.
That is YOUR interpretation, others have a right to draw different conclusions as to just who was unstable during the encounter in that video.
I also think those who say the LEOs were out to kill him from that start aren't looking at what actually happened. They had hundreds of opportunities to shoot him earlier in the sequence and did so only after he reached inside his jacket for what turned out to be a gun.
Well qualified - these are YOUR thoughts. Thank You for sharing them. Makes one's predispositions easier to identify.
As for the "hundreds of opportunities" prior to taking out this dangerous brushfire starter, here are a couple of MY thought as to POSSIBLE thoughts of those calling the shots (pun purely co-incidental): an arrest while meeting with Ward or his lackeys or simple sniper shot as he was walking to/from a daily press conference wouldn't create the right media narrative or give the same Viagra-mimicking effect to the HRT and paramilitary OSP boys, now would it?