I hate to be critical here but they shot him in the back while he was walking away from them, didn’t they???
At least one officer fires his Taser weapon at the man, who staggers back and then continues advancing. When the man is about five feet from the lead officer, the video shows, the officer fires his gun, striking the man in the chest.
The man staggers back, drops the bat, and bleeding on the floor, collapses as horrified shoppers look on. One yells “Don’t shoot him no more.” Another yells “Call an ambulance!”
A San Leandro police spokesman said late Saturday that police did not have the dead man’s name or city of residence.
“We are in the early stages of our investigation,” said Lt. Ted Henderson. The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office coroner’s division identified the man Sunday afternoon as Steven Taylor, 33.
Henderson said police entered the store at about 3:12 p.m., responding to a call about the man. While en route, they were given an update that a robbery was occurring. When they arrived, Henderson said, they determined there was no robbery, but the man was brandishing a bat menacingly as they tried to detain him.
“The officers were in danger,” Henderson said.
The officer who fired the shot, whom Henderson did not identify, is a 20-year veteran of the department and will be placed on paid administrative leave, as is the department’s policy following officer-involved shootings, he said.
“I hate to be critical here but they shot him in the back while he was walking away from them, didn’t they???”
In the direction of fresh unarmed victims.
No they didn’t
“I hate to be critical here but they shot him in the back while he was walking away from them, didn’t they???”
I don’t think that video shows the shooting. I think he’s already shot. I do not hear a gunshot and I think there’s a blood trail on the floor as he walks away.
It looks as if one officer shot him while he was holding the bat.
Then, after the man dropped the bat and was stumbling away, the officer shot him again.
Right now, it looks like a sad story. It looks like suicide by cop.
Based on the blood trail barely visible on the floor, they shot him and he staggered away about 15 feet.