Posted on 06/17/2020 7:22:45 PM PDT by Hojczyk
"This is the third law enforcement agency I’ve been head of," Williams, who is black, told CNN. "Every agency I’ve gone to, I’ve required every officer who carries a Taser to be Tased with it, so that you understand the incapacitation."
Five seconds; 1,001, 1,002, 1,003, 1,004, 1,005. That's five whole seconds [when] if an officer is hit with that Taser that he, all of his muscles will be locked up and he'll have the inability to move and to respond. And yet he is still responsible for every weapon on his belt.
So, if that officer had been hit, he still has a firearm on his side and the likelihood of him being stomped in the head or having his firearm taken and used against him was a probability. And so he did what he needed to do. And this was a completely justified shooting.”
"So you think lethal force here was necessary?" CNN anchor Brianna Keilar asked. Williams said it was and argued that the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution allowed that type of force. "There's nothing malicious or sadistic in the way these officers behaved."
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Thank you Burke County, Ga. Sheriff Alfonzo Williams.
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I hope the fired cop sues the s*it out of Atlanta’s leftard DA.
Facts don’t matter when their priority is kissing black terrorists asses.
When and If this cop is not convicted of first degree murder the crazies will burn Atlanta down.
With the police walking out and we have no idea how long that will last they may not have to wait.
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