The officer felt "threatened" Undoubtedly the victim made "threatening gestures" too. I'm guessing the officer in this picture undoubtedly felt threatened too
Off duty means out of uniform. Once more the police get away with shooting a guy.
To: from occupied ga
Off-duty police who insist on confronting ‘suspicious’ people are a menace.
I’d have assumed this out-of-uniform officer was a mugger or a mafiosi, and acted accordingly. Any one of us would.
To: from occupied ga
Since he is a police officer he only has to say that he was afraid and everything is ok. If it was a normal person he would be charged with murder.
10 posted on
05/06/2009 4:51:27 AM PDT by
YOUGOTIT
(I will always be a Soldier)
To: All
12 posted on
05/06/2009 5:04:38 AM PDT by
Kennesaw
To: from occupied ga
“FREEZE!” “DROP TO THE GROUND!”
Well, if’n I drop, I can’t rightly freeze...
...and if’n I drop, I’m a gonna be in motion...
BANG!
18 posted on
05/06/2009 5:22:54 AM PDT by
Jack of all Trades
(Bait and Switch - that's change ain't it?)
To: from occupied ga
Faced in a life or death situation most of all you Freepers would shoot. There too many hyprocites here.
31 posted on
05/06/2009 6:23:20 AM PDT by
bmwcyle
(American voters can fix this world if they would just wake up.)
To: from occupied ga
saw what he believed to be a “suspicious” personThe cops have every right to shoot suspicious people.
Anyway, the real question as always is, what are the races of the people involved?
To: from occupied ga
The dirty cops of Atlanta have a long record of wrong full act's, next they might even kill a little old lady and try to plant drugs on her.
55 posted on
05/10/2009 9:13:44 AM PDT by
org.whodat
(Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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