By “clean shooting,” I mean justifiable homicide or use of deadly force, and whether or not the people investigating the shooting will rule determine if it is justifiable. I still don’t know all the details, or if the cop made a reasonable decision.
In don’t accept your definition of a clean shoot. For instance, if I awake at night to find someone has broken into my home, that person will be dead weather or not he or she is armed. I’m not going to take a chance on anyone in my family being hurt. likewise, if I’m walking on the street, and someone decides to play the knockout game with me, I will kill that person or persons, if I can. Fists, boots, and teeth can be deadly arms when wielded by the right person.
I’m don’t know if this cop should be charged with murder, or cleared for justifiable use of deadly force. I’ll let the people investigating it come to their conclusion, and see if I agree or disagree with them.
“In don’t accept your definition of a clean shoot. For instance, if I awake at night to find someone has broken into my home, that person will be dead weather or not he or she is armed.”
Your home is not the street. The two situations are not nearly the same. And the witnesses are all saying hands up, no gun.
As for investigations? Tell me you don’t actually trust cops to diligently investigate their own? They have every incentive to bring back the traditional “We followed procedures,” report. And not one incentive to conduct a real, hard hitting and critical investigation.