Posted on 01/07/2009 2:10:16 PM PST by LuxMaker
Youtube video in link.
Just watched the video. I saw a murder.
The police will be fine, excepting for one with an itchy trigger finger, it is the Taxpayers who are going to get shafted.
Mistakes are made, but this mustn't happen... also why would he taser his head? The man is down. He could be tasered anywhere... very unprofessional and irresponsible for a 2-year cop at the very least.
They’ll probably file for disability.
That actually makes much more sense. I couldn’t see the cop’s face, so I couldn’t tell if he was surprised. But, it seems incredible to imagine the cop decided to just shoot the guy right there in public. I know there are bad cops, but I suspect those guys do whatever out of sight of the public.
> I think I’d know the difference between a taser and a pistol.
Would you? Always? How about towards the end of a 12 hour shift, during which you had been shot at and while your wife was in labor?
Not making excuses for the cop. If that was the mistake, it was a damned big one. But I do find it more believable than cold blooded murder.
If the police in the Oakland/Berkeley area were into cold blooded murder, the crime rate up there would be a lot lower, for one thing.
Watch the second video. He stood up, extended his arms, and shot. He was in a pistol shooting stance, not one that would be used with a taser. He knew what he was doing. That report is the cops trying to cover a murder with an "accident".
It does look like that, which I find nearly impossible to believe.
Lol!
That would be my take on it, but I would question, why was he trying to put a tazer into the guys head?
Doesn't quite add up
This is one of those that's simply going to have to await a long, detailed investigation. With video like this it's going to have to be a top-notch team and investigation.
Who knows what was going on in that scuffle or what was said by whom. One thing about situations like this, they seldom turn out to be as cut and dried as the video makes it look.
Are you suggesting that the cop didn’t know there were about a gazillion other people, some with cell phones, right there? Either he’s a complete idiot, or he honestly thinks no one would tell that he shot the guy in cold blood.
Yea it’s one of those things you see but you just don’t want to believe it and hope that what you can’t make out on the grainy video and bad audio shows it to be something different then it looks.
How about quick reaction shooting drills? “Basically drills to short circuit active thinking and induce reflexive actions?”
Something akin to when you see the old lady get the felony stop pull over.
A lot of patrolmen training is to take out thinking.
There was a time a bunch of young males fighting was just broken up and everyone sent on their way, one way or another. Now a common young buck fight fest is a full employment feast for the security bureaucracy and other state organs.
By not go well, I meant that I think it may be easy for them to convict this guy. I hope it was an accident, I really hate to think a cop would just cold bloodedly shoot someone, especially with an audience.
Seriously. I am all about police accountability, and am not in the habit of cutting them slack.
If that’s what happened, the officer should be fired, the victim’s family should get a buttload of money, and the cop should probably face charges.
It makes much more sense (to me, anyway) than a cold blooded murder on a BART platform. Besides which, I know that cops accidentally shooting someone when they meant to tase them has been documented several times over the last 6 years.
I do hope so. It will remain to be seen, and probably by the end of the trial we will still have to make a judgment about what we think happened. Sad at any rate.
Move along folks,nothing here.Just typical police state behavior.
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