“Redus successfully wrestled Carter’s police baton out of his hands, and started beating him over the head with it.
Carter reacquired the baton, and told Redus that he would open fire if the student refused to surrender. According to Police Chief Richard Pruitt, Redus charged the officer once again, forcing Carter to shoot him.”
If that’s true, the officer acted properly.
The kid must have been White, since there’s no hypocritical outrage out there.
Of course the British press has a more complete article:
It seems like you always to have to go international press to a more complete news story.
if the Baton was taken the cop had a good shoot That baton can knock somebody out with one shot.
The kid was obviously capable of taking the cop down and the cop was given a chance to walk away, but no-oooo-oooo ... he HAD to show who was the boss.
One needlessly dead kid
The cop's a murderer .. IMO
The question is, how do we “know” what we know? As far as I can tell, the entire story we have is from the officer’s recollection.
Witnesses seem to only have heard the tail end of the altercation, so the only thing we have that isn’t the officer telling us his story is the witnesses who claim the boy was yelling “are you going to shoot me” right before the officer shot him.
The cop could easily have incapacitated him with a stun gun or other non lethal force.
I have been a prosecutor and defense attorney for the last seven and a half years and I will tell you a cop who have been one for eight years with eight separate agencies is nothing but trouble.
They are referred to by respectable LEOs as gypsy cops.
Also, I have seen far worse where the cops successful used non lethal tactics to stop the threat.
And a couple of times it was a good thing because the suspect had been slipped a drug without their knowledge and went totally out of character.
This result can’t be undone no matter what is learned in the aftermath.
Really? Refusing to surrender is a capital offense?
And you actually believe that the officer is weak enough to have his own baton taken and be beaten with it, but yet is suddenly strong enough to take it back (and not use it), and then is too weak to subdue the now-unarmed kid, and does not think to wait for back-up against the unarmed kid whom is not running? Sorry, his story is full of holes larger than the ones he murdered the kid with.