Textbook good shoot.
There's not even a lawyer in Sacramento that would take that case.
Well it was textbook, I’ll give you that.
Other than the victim being unarmed it was a great shoot. </sarcasm>
I thought the perp fired first. Why would this be a bad shoot?
It was at least 30 seconds after the first shout of show me your hands was called out. He had up to a minute to ditch the gun and surrender with his hands up. Clean shoot.
Have they determined if Clark was the guy walking down the street with a crowbar smashing car windows, the reason police were called in the first place?
“Good shoot” or not, there is still no excuse for them “muting” the audio. None.
They are public servants, often the only visible part of government that most people see for months or even years at a time. Their every working moment is on our dime, we have the right to see what they are up to, especially just before, during and immediately after their use of deadly force.
There are exceptions like undercover operations of course, but for the most part, their actions should be recorded. The recordings nearly always show them in a good light, so I don’t understand their reluctance. Many other worksites on private property are constantly recorded, while police are out in public spaces the vast majority of their time. Why should they be any different?
Lesson here: if you’re accosted by the police at night, drop whatever is in your hand immediately. Even if it’s a priceless Ming vase.
Textbook good shoot? you're joking right? Where was the threat that justified deadly force? They shot a man holding a cell phone. These cops had no business firing their weapons. Shooting when you can't POSITIVELY identify a weapon is 3rd degree manslaughter at the very least. Any civilian would be facing murder charges. Why do cops that have more training and do this for a living get a pass?
The officer "thought they had a gun" is NEVER an excuse for lethal force.
I wonder how the Daniel Shaver case went.
Not really. Muting the mic is not textbook at all. I had a buddy do that and he got in kinds of trouble, almost lost his SGT stripes and did get pulled off of patrol and put in the jail...and that was over nothing near as bad as this. He was just talking about how corrupt the chief was. Any lawyer is going to have a field day...and the department is going to take action against him for failing to follow protocol. Watch.
There’s no such thing as a “good shoot”.
There is an “unfortunate but had absolutely no other choice shoot”, and “murder”.
This, as in the case of every other government killing of a civilian, is the entire range of acceptable options.
Some people do need killing. But that is the job of the courts, not the cops, to decide.
I watched the video too. If a “textbook shoot” is killing an unarmed man with multiple shots....we’re all in trouble.
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