I don’t get why the the perp chose to try and take the cop out on a routine traffic stop.
He obviously wanted to kill a cop.
Outstanding warrant/s?
“I don’t get why the the perp chose to try and take the cop out on a routine traffic stop.”
Routine traffic stop?
Dat officer be hunting him.
Dat officer be after his Skittles.
He can’t be making no purple drank without his Skittles.
“I don’t get why the perp chose to try and take the cop out on a routine traffic stop.”
Cops formerly would stop people who were doing dangerous things. Sure, they still wrote speeding tickets, but not as many as now. But the number of cops on the road is probably triple what it was a few years ago and they’re stopping people around here at 6-7 miles over the limit. This is a huge burden on people who probably can’t afford the $150-350 tickets. I’m not justifying the shooting but I believe cops are now seen as oppressors. Any good feelings people had for police have evaporated in the light of excessive enforcement, no-knock raids and senseless dog shootings.
I’d hate to be a cop today. I’d be looking for another job.
I think that's why the Oregonian forced the police to release the dashcam video. They didn't and couldn't believe that someone would do such a thing -- but there it is.
And did you read the family's comment at the end -- basically saying that if it happened as the officer said then the officer would be dead not him, since he wouldn't miss.
Thank You Dashcam --
Chance to kill a cracker?
Interesting how the family trots out the usual garbage, even in the face of the video.
“’He would have never shot at a police official or anyone of the law,’ his cousin, Will Wright III,”
Perhaps the perp knew things that he had done and assumed the officer was stopping him for one, or more of those things.
If you listen to the video the cop says “I told you, you were speeding”.
My guess is he felt put upon by the cop and was retaliating for the injustice of a black man being stopped.
Goes back to the trayvon case and the hard feelings Obama is encouraging, IMO.
So is it ok to shoot a cop if the traffic stop is not "routine"?
Right? That was very odd.
The guy now has a scraggly beard and wearing a nylon skullcap. My guess is he was a member of the black muslims or black panthers.......