"He was pronounced dead 15 minutes later. A handgun was found on the car seat, police later said"
The question I have is were the "perps" fingerprints on the weapon?
The guy has received an anal exam after each shooting/killing, and was cleared. Read the full article, it provides a lot of good background material. The guy deserves a medal for continuing with his service.
Oh yeah... let's suspect the cop first! What is your problem?!
The cop saw a guy sleeping in the car and he drew down. The cop protected himself and shot someone who was (a) a suspect, and (b) with a weapon.
That's a clean shoot.
Do you have any evidence, even from this idiot reporter's story that would contradict what police said happened? If not, then your reckless insinuation that it was a bad shoot is way off base.
Just a couple of days ago, a report of an officer who WAS SHOT was contradicted by the local TV crew who said that the perp never had a gun. Here and there, are two incidents where the rabidly anti-police press (and apparently a supposed FReeper) will suspect the cop and not the idiot running from the cops.
"perp" means someone who commits a crime...sleeping in a car is not a shooting crime.... But who am I?? Sure, go ahead--if you can't see someone's hands, you as a cop have the right to kill them....
As long as a cop is working in a high crime area, s/he should have the right to shoot anyone...what if they have no hands and the cops think they are just hiding them? Shoot anyway....We should go along with what ever ANY cop does because they never make mistakes... </sarcasm>
The weapon was on the front seat of the vehicle. Of course his prints would be on it. The article didn't say, but I don't think the gun magically appeared there before the suspect went to sleep.
The only problem I have here, is did the suspect know the cop was a cop when he went to grab his gun. This happened in Stockton when he was out of town visiting and no doubt out of uniform.
The question I have is were the "perps" fingerprints on the weapon?
Come to the town I work in and I'll show you a memorial dedicated to a police officer who knocked on the window of a vehicle occupied by someone sleeping. The perp picked up a pistol hidden on the seat and fired. The officer was able to get a shot off before he died. The perp was wounded, but will now spend the rest of his worthless, useless life being warehoused by the State of Alaska.