Thanks for posting that. A couple of things. At the beginning of the video a guy in a brown/gray jacket has something in his hand. Maybe a cell phone, but I could easily mistake it for a gun. Things were very tense before the shooting, and I would have to say the onlookers were menacing.
Second, this article says the guy was shot in the back (I thought earlier I read he was shot in the head). THAT makes more sense that the cop thought he had his taser but instead pulled out his gun. It was still a terrible mistake to make.
Third, I still cannot tell what precipitated this, why did the cop think he needed to taser the guy? I will say that, watching that video there is not enough money in the world to pay me to deal with those kind of thugs day in and day out. I’m surprised we find ANY good cops.
Myself, I don’t need the police or BART. I am a do it yourselfer... I can drive a car just fine...
I am tired of the public employee largesse represented here, it is a major contributing factor to what happened.
Nobody seems to see this.
“Things were very tense before the shooting, and I would have to say the onlookers were menacing.”
So shoot the one guy on the ground and in handcuffs?
Riiiiiight!!