Totally.
He did give her plenty of warning. Don’t cops carry tasers anymore?
How did he know that she had good hearing?
I think that cop will need a very good lawyer.
Sick, that cop is guilty of murder.
Totally unnecessary
Sad. She looked, sounded and acted drunk.
Maybe she could have been deescalated through talk and maybe not. It’s quite a gamble when she’s approaching him with that spade and talking out of her head.
Injured, but not killed.
what ever happened to a baton?...or pepper spray?...or a tazer?..
obviously the woman was loopy...
I am 62 years of age with crappy knees and back and I could have easily gotten the shovel away from her without harm to me or her.
ASSHPLES (sp) like this is why folks don’t trust LE anymore
Yeah, this was mile or so from my house. Baton, Taser at the most. This was over the top.
I am certain he “feared for his life” spoken as soon as some others arrived on the scene. Them be the magic words after shooting a civilian.
Dear God. This is why so many people no longer respect the police. This sort of overuse of deadly force has to stop.
One good cop could have rushed her. Several could have easily subdued her. It was absolutely unnecessary to shoot this woman.
Good. Same cops would have killed a guy doing the same.
I would say he wanted to wet his gear. Stupid cop going towards a “life threatening situation”. Oh and I hate cops. So truth in advertising.
“was told to put the shovel down but approached a bystander.”
Here’s the critical part. The cop thought the bystander was in danger from the woman acting erratically.
Obviously it’s a White woman, or this would be all over the news.
On the pause/zoom parts at the end, she’s heading in the direction of another bystander.
Had the cop waited to shoot, the bystander would’ve been in the line of fire.
A worker on a public construction project actually working? That kind of erratic?
We’ve all seen too many trigger happy cop videos, but in this case, what if the cop had allowed her to keep moving toward that bystander to the right, and all of a sudden split his head open with the shovel? Folks would be saying “He should have shot her earlier”.