Chris Rock said it all..
“On the police body camera footage, also provided by the attorney, someone off camera can be heard saying “good shot.””
Hell yes to get it though the fence jolly good shot
Murder in the third?
You can’t shoot an unarmed person in the back, even if he had broke the law.
So a cop can shoot a kid in the head, but not the ass or the legs?
It may have been a good shot, but it doesn’t sound like a good shoot.
“ The 16-year-old was also known to carry firearms and had jumped a fence into a child daycare center.”
Shooting into the yard of a daycare center - smh
The police were in hot pursuit of a gangbanger murder suspect. He had just escaped from police custody.
I support the thin blue line 90% of the time...
No way the this is a good shoot.
I think it was a bad shoot (Fresno, CA), but this is a mitigating factor in the cop’s judgment:
“The (surveillance) video represents a different vantage point and was not what the pursuing officers could see. The 16-year-old was also known to carry firearms and had jumped a fence into a child daycare center.”
that was sickening
The official Fresno PD response:
Citing police statements, the father’s lawsuit says that Murietta Golding was wanted for questioning in connection with a shooting one day earlier that had caused a fatal car crash. Fresno Police sought to question the teenager and pulled over a car in which he was a passenger, the lawsuit states.
The teenagers in the car initially complied with police. But Murietta Golding then took off running, the lawsuit states, leading to the fatal chase.
Fresno Police Chief Andrew Hall told CNN affiliate KSEE that the shooting was ruled justified by police’s Internal Affairs Bureau, the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office and the City of Fresno’s Office of Independent Review.
“The use of lethal force in this case occurred while officers were investigating a homicide. The 16-year-old in this case was involved in the homicide with his brother and the brother was later arrested and pled guilty,” Hall said.
Even in the old west, shooting anyone in the back was straight up Murder and you were Hanged.
I do think he should be removed from patrol duty. But then placed as a training officer on weapons accuracy. Face it, most cops empty their weapon having never getting even close to hitting their target. This guy John Wick the thief/murder suspect and should be passing on his skills to other officers. One less (probably illegal) dirtbag off the street.
Do we have some refugees from DU who are soft on law and order here today?
“Stop or I’ll shoot” has been SOP for more than a hundred years. His brother admitted that he and his brother were involved in a homicide the day before. The streets are safer now with one less gang-banger. Saved the public the cost of his trial and incarceration.
I’m not sorry a killer is dead. Good shooting...
I will give massive leeway to any situation I see with cops with the assumption that there is a whole lot we didn’t see leading up to whatever 10 seconds of video the left takes out of context.
But I can’t find much in that video to take out of context. Almost all the possibilities lead directly to murder.
We had better find out that the kid shot at these cops a moment earlier and ditched the weapon or stabbed one of them or something and was too dangerous to let go.
But even at that... it was a killing of a running perp who was not posing an immediate threat. How could he be an immediate threat on the other side of that fence without a gun of his own?
And what the hell did that cop have for a backstop for that shot anyway? Looks like a house. Who else could have died?
If any single one of us took a shot like that in any state in the union we’d go to prison.
I applaud the cop’s marksmanship but not his judgement.
Good shot.
A fleeing felon.
Common Law is the greatest invention of Britain.
I dont know what some on the people hear are acting jovial about.
This was seriously a stupid move.
The two videos show no reason for the officers to have their guns out at all. There might be some reason not in the videos for it. If so, this would most likely be in the radio records.