Posted on 04/14/2022 7:20:11 AM PDT by artichokegrower
My take was that he squeezed the trigger when he shouldn’t have, but was under considerable physical and mental duress at the time. I don’t think he meant to kill him, but that won’t matter.
*sigh*
same as nearly all the others.
THE GUY RESISTED!!!!!!!
I don’t care what color the people involved are!!!!
LISTEN YOU LIBERAL MORONS LURKERS !!!!!
when you RESIST, it becomes a fight over the COPS GUN!!!
so any cop in a resist situation is fighting for his LIFE over HIS OWN GUN!!!!
what is so hard to understand about that?
cops have their guns taken from them and used on them ALL THE TIME!
stop resisting, and stop dying, it’s THAT SIMPLE!
“Cops error was not waiting for backup”
You SAID you watched the video.
He couldn’t wait for backup, the perp GOT OUT OF THE CAR! REFUSED TO GET BACK IN THE CAR!
“Looks” like he is about to RUN!
I’ll just wait for backup. NOT!
Hood argument for a sidearm with a manual safety, as well.
“Close quarters, gun to the back of the head, you bet your arse it’s over the top.”
Yeah, he should have shot the guy in the FOOT!
We don’t know the exact circumstances yet. The perp may have just gotten control of the taser and the officer had only a split second to fire. No time to aim for his foot/leg.
A “LIFE OR DEATH MOMENT” You CAN’T put yourself there in that officer’s place.
“How long was the clip you watched? Cop should have tased this guy when he got out of the car, against the cop’s instructions.”
I’m not sure how long, 90 seconds maybe? From the time the perp got out of the car, to the attempted tase, to the gun being drawn. Then the obligatory coverage of blm type protestors out already. If they had jobs they wouldn’t be out so fast to protest.
It is possible, (likely), that the cop accidentally fired his weapon. I saw a short clip, and I’m not a police officer. As a citizen, it’s my opinion that if the cop intentionally shot the perp in the back of the head, that’s too much. But, I can’t know intention from what I saw.
I actually believe it was an accident. There was a lot of scuffling going on and, maybe: A) cop had his finger on the trigger with a subsequent jerk or knock of his arm, hand, etc...boom - B) something got caught in the trigger guard (equipment, clothing) and...boom. Coulda been a “wardrobe malfunction”.
“It was excessive. I saw the video.”
As you said they were wrestling.
Cellphone video shooting approx. @ 44:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8uTKq8lTms
“My son is a cop and he is not a fan of the taser. In his opinion they are not effective enough to count on them.”
BINGO!
From watching THOUSANDS of hours of COPS/LIVE PD I can tell you that is absolutely correct.
Do you want to trust YOUR LIFE to a weapon that works “most of the time” or put another way, “some of the time”?
Taser fun facts:
“The site looked at 3,000 fatal police shootings between 2015 and 2017 that involved the use of a Taser and found that in 258 of the cases, a Taser “had failed to subdue someone before the police shot and killed them.””
“Are they deadly?
At least 500 people in the United States have died since 2001 after being shocked with stun guns during an arrest or while in jail, according to a 2012 statement by Amnesty International, which supports stricter limits on the use of Tasers.”
“In addition, in more than a third of the cases, the person became more aggressive after the device was used, which may have contributed to an escalation of the incident.”
Yep
Bad situation.
Glad that turd is dead. This was suicide by cop.
Yeah. Under the circumstances, trying to draw and retain a Glock without putting your finger in the triggerguard would be nearly impossible. But, we’re past that. The only facts that matter are white cop, a dead black man...” Do we execute people for traffic infractions?”, a lawyer, a grieving family, and a pot of money, and a city that may burn.
Well it got the Subway shooter off the front page!
Just in time for summer.
You win the dumbass of the thread award! This lowlife deserved what he got.
“You win the dumbass of the thread award!”
Irony.
The police should, in no uncertain terms, tell the so-called black community and leftists in general: we will no longer respond to calls from your community. You can hunt and kill each other all you like and if any little kids get caught in the crossfire, well, too bad.
However, if you are caught outside your neighborhood committing crimes against others, you will be summarily executed.
End of discussion.
How is Chump, I mean crump, allowed to pro hac vice all over the country?? Are there no attorneys in all these states that could handle the case? The courts have to put a stop to this garbage.
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