to wait around if you yourself don't want to get shot, especially since you lost sight of the gun. The kid should have dropped the damn thing so
the cop could have seen it.
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Posted on 04/15/2021 1:46:33 PM PDT by Shadylake
City officials have released videos and other material showing what happened the night police fatally shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo.
He gave the order "Show me your hands!", and instead of putting his hands up as ordered, the suspect reached back and grabbed a pistol from his waistband. Obviously, the officer saw that (as did his bodycam) because he immediately yelled "Drop it!" The suspect swung around around, and did indeed drop or throw the gun, but unfortunately that action was hidden from the officer by the suspect's body. As the suspect faced the officer, there was about a half a second before the officer fired. Was that enough time to make a good "shoot/don't shoot" decision when you just saw the suspect draw a gun? At a well lit shooting range with no stress or consequences? Maybe. In a high stress life or death situation?
He raised his hands while one hand was holding a gun. He dropped the gun after the bullet hit him.
But he wasn’t running around by himself. He was with a 21-year old who the cops were after because he was shooting at someone/something. He was arrested with gloves that had gunpowder residue. The thirteen-year old was being chased after running from the scene.
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This is the issue. Do officers have the right to chase down individuals without a justifiable basis. The controlling issue will be: Did the officer have a rational basis to pursue the kid?
The video I saw shows something in the kid’s hand and then a gun on the ground.
At the end of the day, Cops = bad; Whites = worse; Destroy the USA.
Democrat politicians are lining their pockets, China and Russia licking their chops - that's what this is about nothing more, nothing less.
Time to look for a new country to live in -
You are blind as a bat, surveillance video showed him running then stopping and quickly tossing gun behind fence then throwing up his hands as was turning around, then he got shot.
The gun, presuming he had it is on back side of fence, about 6-8 or more feet away, and shown well after he died. Further, it was in slide-lock, obvious to anyone with firearms experience. Still doesn’t change the fact that as shown in the video as he was shot, he was following the officer’s instructions, hands up, open, and facing the officer when he was shot. That’s on the officer.
Do some research Dummy!
The Horn case is interesting, but no evidence that the burglars were surrendering. Instead Horn’s attorney said they charged at Horn.
Really? How did it get so far away along the back side of the wall then? I doubt the police moved it that far.
Freeper logic is essentially
Criminal shot
Good kill
He had a history
He looked mean
It simply does not matter here anymore
The politics are so hot freepers have lost empirical judgement capabilities
I saw one post today about taser cop lady manslaughter
“Well she must feel so bad about it”
Like that absolves negligence....try that in a courtroom
Remorse may mitigate a sentence but it won’t help with guilt or innocence
If that poster could read cop lady mind that is
“The gun, presuming he had it is on back side of fence, about 6-8 or more feet away, and shown well after he died. Further, it was in slide-lock, obvious to anyone with firearms experience. Still doesn’t change the fact that as shown in the video as he was shot, he was following the officer’s instructions, hands up, open, and facing the officer when he was shot. That’s on the officer.”
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I’m going to repost something I posted earlier to some folks who are saying this was not a legitimate police shooting. I received no replies from any of them. Perhaps you could respond?
OK, let’s do a little bit of analysis and thinking:
Look CAREFULLY at the screenshot in post 51 above. Its computer time stamp is 2:38:39 (39 seconds after 2:38 am).
Now look CAREFULLY at the screenshot in post 19 above. Its computer time stamp is 2:38:40 (40 seconds after 2:38 am) - a second (or split second, we can’t tell) after the earlier image.
Now look at the quick and dirty analysis in post 95 above. Do you think that analysis has some validity?
i think that is the point.
defunding the police is not about getting rid of the police.
it is about getting rid of the existing police and replacing them with a new SJW police force.
the issue is never the issue. the issue is always the revolution.
I’m not sure there’s enough video to make a claim either way
If he’d dropped the gun then bad shoot
If he was dropping it....and cop jumped....well....they do that nowadays ...training supposedly
I’m ambivalent for now
It looks like he was hands up no gun when shot fired but that could be media manipulating
Do officers have the right to chase down individuals without a justifiable basis.
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That Photo is a 9mm Ruger semi auto pistol.What’s a 13 YEAR OLD DOING WITH A 9 MM PISTOL AND where did he get it?
Now thats a question that needs to be answered.
Keyword to watch: policeShooting.
The kid threw the gun over a fence it was retrieved this was a good shoot!!
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