“This was no accident,” the statement said. “This was an intentional, deliberate, and unlawful use of force.”
From the family’s lawyer. Scum bag.
If that’s the bar he wants the defense to find reasonable doubt for, so be it.
Scumbag is right.
The authorities have given these folks so much rope, they’ve
got plenty enough to hang all of us with it.
This is unquestionably a fatal error, but the idea she
intended to kill this guy doesn’t pass the sniff test.
I’ve seen former officers talk about just hitting the target
under pressure situations. Under pressure, their mind didn’t
always work as efficiently as they had hoped for.
I think that dynamic was in play here.
I can’t imagine picking the gun rather than the taser, but
I’m not convinced it couldn’t happen.
For all the talk of what officers should or shouldn’t do
in these situations, I don’t see/hear any talk about what
suspects could do to contribute to their own safety.
They own part of the responsibility for their own death,
but not the media, the families, or BLM types pick up
on the idea that compliance is the best chance of
survival.
Too bad really...