Hard to pass judgment on this story. The off-duty officer may have felt his family was at risk.
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Oh, give me a break. The cop shoots and kills an unarmed man. And he does this after stopping on the side of the road with his family in the car. If he felt concerned about the safety of his family, he wouldn’t have stopped.
I suspect that when and if the truth comes out in this case, this out-of-control cop likely shot the unarmed man simply because he felt “dissed”.
But, not to worry, this is Maryland and the murderous cop is black. If the shooting victim is white, jury nullification will raise its head and the cop will either walk or have a small sentence.
I have pulled over a couple of times because an aggressive driver was zipping around lanes like a moron behind me, and I wanted to wait until he was 10 miles down the road before getting back on the highway.
Cops murder citizens and dogs every day and use the “I felt my life was threatened!” defense as their free get-out-of-jail-free card.