Posted on 10/08/2022 9:06:09 AM PDT by Fido969
The rookie cop initially said he was struck by the teen's vehicle, but newly released body-cam footage suggests otherwise.
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lol...authority issues....smh..
The car from the prior night never had a license plate recorded, from what I read elsewhere.
It was simply a similar make, model, and color.
It could have been you and your wife.
What that cop did was insane even if the car was the vehicle he encountered the night before. I see the blazing away crap in movies and I shake my head. To see this fool doing it in a parking lot is amazing. The cop is acting like someone who WANTS to kill somebody. Personally if I strapped on a gun every day I’d fire on a human at the very last extremity. Radio it in for Christs Sake or, here’s an idea, wait for backup to block the guy in. Too many of the people becoming cops these days don’t seem to be Men, well, as we once defined that.
The cop could’ve/should’ve blocked the rear of the suspect’s vehicle with his cruiser and lit his lights if he wasn’t going to wait for back up.
Also, he could’ve/should’ve said “Would you please step out
of the car” instead of the more aggressive, provocative “Get out of the car”.
Shot the guy for eating in his car?
People who carry concealed all the time have the exact same thought process - they never want to have to use it, unless life or limb is in immediate danger. It boggles my mind how some people turn into R.O.T.O.R.* when they wear the uniform.
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He’s a punk to you? A kid sitting in his car minding his own business eating a hamburger is a punk?
LOL
“It could have been you and your wife.”
Could have been. But I wouldn’t make any uncertain moves or try to run with a police officer pulling my door open. I would have kept my hands in plain sight, did what I was told, and then figured out what the cop wanted.
Regardless, my point was that there were numerous mistakes made which escalated the problem as it could have been handled better.
I was involved in a screw up by military police when I was stationed in northern California. I had to move a good amount of funds from the club to the rec center for a program. I was dressed in civilian clothes appropriate to the event, suit and tie, and was leaving the club facility on foot to my car, when I was accosted by over a dozen pistol pointing cops. They ordered me to get on the ground right after a rain. And after telling them they were toast on this, I ruined the suit in the mud.
They had received a silent alarm, and sent cops to the facility, possibly 5 minutes, and didn’t bother to call the club while they were in route. So instead of verifying what was happening when the cage was opened and the employee didn’t turn the alarm off, they just reacted, didn’t enter the facility, and threatened me for no reason other than their mishandling.
A couple of people got article 15’s and a couple got demoted. I got a new suit, probably better than the one I had. So I have been in that situation like you mentioned and I would have acted differently if I was innocent, I did.
I never said the perp was innocent, just that the cops mishandled the situation and could have got a lot of people killed for reacting too quickly and pushing too hard. So far all they had was third degree felony escape, maybe, on the guy in the car. Not near enough to do it the way they did.
wy69
“This story was edited to reflect that it’s unclear from the body-cam video whether the driver put his car in reverse or it rolled backward because his foot left the brake pedal.”
Huh?
...”yes son...if you have any contact with the police, just put it in reverse and run”.....
everybody sees what happened....cop hating nation....everybody enjoy your crime spree....brought to you by barack obama...
So from the young man's POV he was sitting in his car with his girl, eating a burger when a large man in dark clothing comes up to his car, yanks the door open, orders him to get out and lays violent hands on him.
Can anyone say, "Car Jacking"?
Nope. What JBT said was that he THOUGHT that it was a car that he had pursued the night before. Because you can tell the car was SO distinctive. I am sure there are no more then five or six hundred cars that look like that in the area.
The speculation is when he took is foot off the brake, because the cop told him to get out of the car, the car rolled backwards, it may have been on neutral or reverse. As soon as the car moved, the cop started shooting. Being shot at, the kid tried to get away.
“...he THOUGHT that it was a car that he had pursued the night before.”
Thank you
Of course this really makes it worse as he treated the person inside the car so badly to start the exchange that he may have been a major cause of the situation escalating worse.
wy69
As long as the cops are going to leave me alone if I happen to have to defend myself, I'm fine with that. If they are just going to disarm and arrest me, then the cops are the enemy as well.
“The speculation is when he took is foot off the brake, because the cop told him to get out of the car, the car rolled backwards, it may have been on neutral or reverse. As soon as the car moved, the cop started shooting. Being shot at, the kid tried to get away.”
All cars with automatic transmissions can roll about a foot after you let your foot off the brake, even if in park. The officer should have been smart enough to know this fact. This could have happened to any one of us because the officer was too quick on the trigger.
A lot of your entry was about the problem with car theft and fake plates. And I don’t disagree it is a real problem. I live in a state where theft is horrible also. Between January and March of 2021, 6,692 cars were stolen across the state of Washington. For that same time period in 2022, 12,569 cars have been stolen. If current trends hold, the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs estimates car thefts could top 50,000 by the end of the year. There were 26,520 vehicles stolen in 2020, and 31,032 in 2021 in Washington state. I feel your pain.
But there are ways to approach a car unlike the way that was done that could control the situation far better and not incite the action the driver took leading to life threatening possibilities of innocents. I’m in no way going to say the driver didn’t panic as it appeared to me he did. But he was given the opportunity and panicked by the officer doing what he did with the intrusive way he took. Walking up on a blind side location, and pulling the door open on a driver could easily have gotten himself killed from a lap placed pistol. AS it was, it elevated into open gunfire throughout the parking lot from the police officer with at least one clip being used, possibly two. Bad choices.
wy69
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