I tell you what, you shoot someone in the back and see if you get off so light on such superficial circumstances.
Give it a rest, dude. Accidents happen. Even tragic ones. There isn’t enough jail space for sociopaths who intentionally hurt people, let alone for bad luck situations like this.
One minute, you are a person doing a tough job. The next minute you should be sent away for a long stretch? Sorry. The other poster upthread had it correct about the poor quality of your comment.
I don’t have any heartburn over the verdict. From what I’ve seen I think it accurately reflects what happened. I don’t think the cop intended to execute the guy. I think he intended to taze him. Yes, it was his own dumb self that grabbed the wrong weapon. Along with his negligence under stress, there’s clearly a training issue in the department. I wonder if he carried them both on his right side. Bad idea, that.
When I did boardings, the advice I got (and took) was that the lethal thing (the .45) was on my right hand, and the nonlethal things (curb60 tear gas and the baton) were on my left hand. No way to screw that up, even under pressure.
Even if he were going for his taser, and I don’t know that to be the fact, there was still no excuse to tase the guy. He was on the ground, on his belly, and not resisting.
How any reasonable person can justify this defies logic. Unless of course, they are bootlickin JBTs...