Not enough information in the story. He was shot while driving away, yet the story says they were serving a search warrant on the property. If they didn’t have an arrest warrant for him and he was driving away, what was the justification for shooting him? The article does not indicate he was shooting at them, waving a gun or otherwise threatening the cops. Maybe he was and the details just haven’t been released, but just based on the facts in the story, this looks bad for the cops.
I was a police officer in the L.A. region in the 1970s. Department policy was, “You don’t shoot at moving cars.” It made total sense.
I’m thinking/hoping that there’s a lot more to the story and that it comes out before the riots begin.
If the facts are as printed it is not just looking bad for the coppers I IT is bad.
> Not enough information in the story. <
A news agency likes to be the first one out with a breaking story. I get that. But yeah, you’re right. This story has so little information in it that it’s almost irresponsible.
Never stops the media from deliberately omitting information to inflame the situation, and people on both the Left and the Right (including many right here on this forum) from jumping on it and declaring the cops should all be fired. It would be nice if, gee. There was some more information before people started screaming the cops are bad, need to be fired, etc. I expect that fully from the Leftists. It disappoints me to see it from conservatives. Full disclosure: I have fallen prey to it on this very forum too, before I learned my lesson and learned to wait for the FULL video or the FULL story, not what CNN WANTS you to see.
That said, there are wrongful shootings and need to be investigated and punished. 4