The drugs were for an injury while in the Army (he had been taking them for most of his adult life) and a recent car crash. People who have taken painkillers for 15 years don't respond to them the way you or I would - a point not made at the inquest. Think Rush Limbaugh.
In any case, I don't see how that justifies the cops shooting a man whose gun was still in its holster, nor the tactic of confronting him in a crowd as opposed to asking him if they can talk...
I’ll be honest - I am very surprised that none of the ‘bystanders’ were hit and killed.
Of course, shooting a man in the back, multiple times, while he is on the ground does tend to reduce strays. But then I know a lot of cops whose motto is “Keep stroking the trigger till the slide locks back”
The civil trial is going to be a circus - at the least.
Thanks for the additional information.
No,a cop isn't justified to kill someone *simply* because one is under the influence of something.But I can assure that in my 20 years of work in an inner city ER I saw many,many,many,many....MANY....cases where a person high on alcohol,heroin,coke,amphetamines,etc did things that were *very* harmful (and all too often,fatal) to themselves and/or others.If you'd like details Freepmail me your phone number and I'll regale you for a few days with my stories (including the ones about murder victims and of ER staff be attacked and threatened by such people).
Of course I don't expect you to give me your phone number but you gotta trust me on this.
It's easy. You remove the gun from the holster, lay the gun back down, and put the holster in your pocket. Then you start yelling, "he pointed a gun at me".
(there were people who stated to reporters that the gun was in his waistband in a holster, and that he threw it on the ground as he was being shot, and that the holster just 'disappeared' in the excitement.)
Scott told one of his doctors that he wanted pain killers for depression, but he suggested to her that she could lie and say the prescription was for pain.
People who have taken painkillers for 15 years don't respond to them the way you or I would - a point not made at the inquest. Think Rush Limbaugh.
Rush wasn't mixing six times the normally lethal dose of morphine with one times the normally lethal dose of Xanax.
>> In any case, I don’t see how that justifies the cops shooting a man whose gun was still in its holster,
Every so often we get a situation that reeks of gross injustice. Such is the case here I believe.