Release name now before investigation is out, would be a death sentence for the cop, IMHO.
Police, if someone is causing a disturbance walking in traffic (if that is what he was doing), have a right to tell someone move out of the road, that they might cause an accident. I’d be pissed if I’d hit someone who wouldn’t get out of the road and I learned a cop had driven by and couldn’t care less that two dudes were in the middle of the road, and weren’t just crossing. That being said, we need the report, including ballistics. I think that the PD should have certainly removed the victim off the ground and sent him to the hospital regardless. Certainly better PR than leaving him there for all the phone users to take pics and jack up feelings. The cops that shot that homeless camping guy in the park. They even released the video. That was Police State run amok, but no one went out and used that horrific killing to commit the crimes of: theft, looting, arson, molotov cocktails, beating of “whites”...... This could be handled better on all sides. I’m calling out ALL OF THEM. The Civil Rights race baiters need to quit the avocation and justification of violence, esp. their crap is toward innocents. Speaking for myself, I would still like a police force to take care of the criminals or how are WE GOING TO LIvE with lawlessness?
We are a Nation of Laws, at least I hope we still are. Police and Society alike. Otherwise, we are screwed.