If this is the case where the man had a cell phone and the cop yells gun, gun, gun, they had zero reason to shoot. The police were clearly not sure of a threat because there was none. This is manslaughter by any definition. Any civilian would be charged with murder. More people will die if the police are not held to the same standard as anyone else.
Are you familiar with the case?
First of all, Clark was pimping out the mother of his children and had put her head through a wall two days earlier. Secondly, he was on a shocking amount of drugs. BAC of .91, weed, Xanax, cocaine, codeine, Benadryl, and about 5 other things.
There are videos from the officers’ body cameras and the helicopter that clearly show a man breaking things and hopping fences before running away from officers into a dark back yard. The officers came around the corner of the house and saw Clark holding something in front of his body and advancing towards them. They told him to surrender and he said “F*** you.” Then one of the officers saw a gleam and mistook it for a muzzle flash.
Don’t listen to what Black Lives Matter is saying about this case. Clark was a horrible person who committed suicide by cop, and his family is better off with him dead.
Watch the video.
They were in a dark backyard. The criminal had already thrown a brick through an old man’s sliding glass door. When police arrived on the scene he fled through several backyards, he knew he was being pursued. When the police yelled at him to show his hands he advanced toward them in the dark shadows of an unlit backyard. There was a flash of light from the man’s hands and the officers fired to protect themselves. There was no other reasonable course of action the officers could have taken.
Again, watch the video and review the facts.
Your philosophy is to let the bad guy start shooting first before the officers react? Pi$$ poor.