Posted on 07/18/2020 9:39:17 AM PDT by knighthawk
A 23-year-old Los Angeles police officer known as 'top shot' is being sued by the heartbroken 14-year-old daughter of a man she killed, after he appeared to lunge at the cop with a box cutter.
Toni McBride, an officer in LAPD's Newton Division who has appeared in magazines and practices at gun ranges alongside Hollywood stars including Keanu Reeves, is being sued after bodycam footage showing her shooting Daniel Hernandez, 38, in downtown Los Angeles in April was released.
The footage shows that after instructing him to drop a box cutter he was holding, Hernandez appeared to continue to walk towards the officer.
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Having a father who succumbed to a violent moment of Stupid shouldn’t give you standing to sue the person that killed him.
She can be on my zombie team anytime.
She’ll be thrown under the bus for her action by IA to appease the BLM people.
LAPD used to have one of the best pistol teams going.
I must say...he was quite a distance away with that knife.
Dropped him in his tracks.
Not guilty.
Anything closer than 30 feet is a danger
The officer should have shot the knife out of the perp’s fingers...and all would be fine.
Clear case of police brutality....if the BurnLootMurder cult can testify.
https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/cutting-distance-tueller-drill/ says 21 feet may be too close for an active knife against a pistol
I second that motion.
He was close enough to be a deadly threat.
[I must say...he was quite a distance away with that knife.]
It's ironic, they want to portray themselves as bad azzz, sexy defenders of America...But bring in a mob of Democrat university cultist, looters, vandals and arsonist destroying entire cities in broad daylight, and they're hiding, no where to be seen, or standing around gawking. Then the excuse..."We're not allowed to do our jobs"....Yet when it's a car stop, or a mental case in a home that's surrounded or similar scenarios, they're the no-nonsense tough guys.
That’s an impossible position to be in. She’s wrong no matter what she does and I’m sure that idiot was emboldened by what he perceived to be his immortality.
It’s not whether or not he was too close, his obvious intent to do harm to the police officer is a big factor. If someone approaches you wielding a boxcutter, do you think they just want to shake your hand?
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