This is what happens when you demonize and demoralize the good guys while letting criminals go free on a race card pass.
Give that cop a promotion!
Yikes!
Isn't he the one who was so soft on the illegals?
My Good Guys brother and nephew, both long time LEO’s and now retired, call this an expression of now dominant Arrogance Gene. As fewer Good People become LEO’s and fewer Good People are citizens, the only people that apply for LEO’s are a group that should never have a gun and never have a badge. Pistol Petes.
Similar problems with politics. Many of those ‘in charge’ should never be elected again.
This is what happens when you demonize and demoralize the good guys while letting criminals go free on a race card pass.
Cop was out of control. He needs to go to jail.
Putting the car in motion was a seriously stupid thing to do. It was almost an admission of guilt. If it was a mistaken identity case, the kid should have complied and let it sort itself out. Cooperation is a good way to prevent police brutality, at least to avoid it.
Hit the cop with attempted murder and a huge civil suit.
Lock that crazy man up!
A car is a weapon in this kid used as it as such. Deadly force was the response to deadly force. I don’t see what he did wrong. And there was some excellent shooting as the passenger was not hit.
Suspect’s car coming right at you: good shoot.
Suspect’s car driving away: bad shoot.
Of course there’s an exception. Was the fleeing car an imminent danger to others? For example, was the suspect heading right towards a crowd? No imminent danger = bad shoot.
Did the officer confirm that the car was the same car before he even approached the car?
If not, if he was just obeying a hunch, then where was his probable cause to begin with?
So right there the whole scenario is wrong.
But then Mr Genius in the car, when faced by an angry cop opening his door, started to flee even before there was gun fire.
People really need to watch Chris Rock’s how not to be beat by the police video.
Its wisdom could have saved this guy from getting shot.
Or maybe he had seen it and his woman was mad and about to yell “He got weed!”?
Didn’t read yet, but let me guess. The guy shot at was “of color?”
This Barney Fife wanna be needs to be publicly tarred and feathered, never to work in LE again. This is absolutely insane. Big payday coming for the driver, if he survives his wounds.
iconic: Stop or I’ll Shoot
Somebody unidentified rips the door open and demands you get out of the car, how would you respond? The cop never ID’d himself and just began an attack.
I’d have run as well.
They said they still don’t know if the car was stolen? How can that be? Fishy, fishy. I never even heard the cop call the plates in.
This whole incident reeks. Soft on illegals or not, the chief is right, nothing the cop did is defensible. Cops can’t just wander around parking lots jerking car doors open, demanding compliance and shooting up the place.
Officer: Shots fired. Shots fired.
dispatch: Officer Ken, were shots fired?
Officer: Shots fired. Shots fired.
dispatch: Ken, were you the one firing the shots?
Officer: Shots fired. Shots fired.
dispatch: Ken?
Officer: yes.
That police officer was dangerous, and I’m glad he’s been fired.
The police were just doing their job, following standard procedure. There is no evidence of any policeman violating any citizen’s rights.
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That cop needs to go to jail for a long, long time.