VIDEO: Cop Tells Felon ‘You Reach For That Gun, I’ll Blow Your Brains Out’ – He Does So

bluelivesmatter ^ | 9/02/17 | Andrew Blake

[blueyon]

Officer Jonathon McCoy Gave Nearly 30 Commands Before Firing

Kettering, Ohio – Kettering Police officer Jonathon McCoy gave about 30 commands to the occupants of a car he pulled over before firing nine shots and killing a felon who had a gun sticking out of his pants. (Video below)

The Kettering Police released video of the Aug. 27 incident, according to The Dayton Daily News. The newspaper reported one of the commands Officer McCoy gave Jason Hoops before shooting him was, “You reach for that gun, I will blow your brains out, do you f—— understand me?”

[BraveMan]

The actor got his wish. He’s not going back to prison.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Coroner’s summary verdict: Suicide by cop.

[Carl Vehse]

"Kettering Police officer Jonathon McCoy gave about 30 commands to the occupants of a car he pulled over before firing nine shots and killing a felon"

Any report yet from the coroner on the shot grouping?!?

[trisham]

Thank God.

[Sequoyah101]

He did not want to shoot the guy.
He was very respectful to the other occupants.
He was also justifiably scared.
Good he made it home.

In general though why do they have to ask where are you going, where are you from, what are you doing and all about the occupants of the car on any routine stop even for a tail light? Why does that merit being treated as a felon. Are we not free to move about the country?

[odawg]

He clearly means hands on dash and don’t move them, as in “show me your hands” — which requires movement.

[redcatcherb412]

Not much you can say about the dead moron but ...

[Raycpa]

What if taking someone to emergency room.

[I want the USA back]

No riots in the streets. No media obsession. Both are White. End of story.

[Sequoyah101]

Ive seen cops give all kinds of excuses for asking. They range from suspicion, curiosity, chit chat and even wild fabrications.

If I were going to the er I would say so and ask if I could please have an escort expecting the cop was actually there to protect and serve. If I were going to an emergency I would expect and ask for help and expect it to be given.

The suggestion you make is very flimsy.

[politicianslie]

Any report yet from the coroner on the shot grouping?!?

Are you implying this was an incident that demonstrated proper gun control?

[DUMBGRUNT]

Entering the 7th circle of hell with the boiling blood and more, can damage the soul.

Sadly some never recover.

[Dan in Wichita]

A modern day version of Dirty Harry?

[Carl Vehse]

At the time of the shooting, there was another person in the car who was not injured. This does indicate some proper gun control.

[pepsi_junkie]

A movie that really impacted me was Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven". In one scene the young hotshot who thinks he wants to be a famous gunslinger shoots a guy dead, first time he ever shot anyone. After they get away the kid is distraught. Crying and drinking heavily he says how hard it is to imagine the guy will never breathe again just because he pulled a trigger. Eastwood, the certified stone cold killer who rehabilitated himself but came out retirement for one last score, responds "It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have." When they kid then justifies it by saying the guy had it coming because of his misdeeds, Eastwood says "Kid, we all have if coming."

Amazing scene. Whenever I think of someone being put in a situation where they have no choice but to use lethal force I think of this scene and how in that one moment you aren't just stopping a bad guy, you are stopping everything he ever might have done in the future. You are making his children orphans and his wife a widow. You would never steal his car yet in that moment you took everything he ever had away from him.

In the quiet of your mind, even though you know what you did was sound, justified, legal, smart and defensible, well, I suppose that reality that this person is gone is because of that moment and what you did must be hard to get past. For a person with any degree of empathy, the weight of that on your mind must be immense.

I feel for the officer and what he must be going through. He was begging the guy to choose to walk away from the situation alive and go on to live a long life but for whatever reason his pleas fell on deaf ears. And now he has to make peace with that somehow.

[pepsi_junkie]

>>Officer McCoy told Hoops six times to get his hands up, six times to put his hands on the dash, four times not to move, twice not to reach for the gun, twice not to do anything stupid and four times to relax.
Hands up. Hands on dash. Don’t move. Screaming “relax”. Etc.
I’m confused and I DON’T have a gun pointed at me.

Would you be confused enough to imagine that maybe reaching for the gun was what the cop was asking you to do? Because it seems that's what the guy did.

[ASA Vet]

As usual the story doesn't mention the things we could improve by learning from such shootings.

What caliber, and what loading?

[lightman]

Amen.

Squeaky clean shoot.

But 30 warnings? Seems like 20 too many.

[gop4lyf]

This will still be used by the BLM gang as an example of “white privilege.” They will say that a black man would not have gotten all of those warnings.

[flamberge]

why do they have to ask where are you going,.....on any routine stop even for a tail light?

The desired payoff for a traffic stop is a high-profile felony arrest. The questions to the occupants are intended to justify "probable cause" for the officer to search the vehicle and occupants for contraband.

There is also the possibility of finding that one or more passengers has an outstanding warrant for arrest. That is a perfect win for the officer.

Of course, things do occasionally go sideways.

This shooting appears to be a case where things went sideways. The first officer followed his training correctly and all of the responding officers appeared to be very professional and controlled in their actions.

I believe it was a justified shooting.