According to the father’s investigation, the police officer got his gun caught on the broken mirror of a car, but thought it was Michael Bell attempting to grab the gun.
I glanced at some articles on the incident and one said it was an illegal stop. I want to know if his son was legally drunk as it relates to that issue. His state of mind and resultant behavior at the time could have also affected the officer’s belief that Bell was trying to take his gun.
The article, which in fairness is not really about the original incident raises a lot of questions.
and you know, I understand that cops find themselves in some jacked up situations, or situations that may appear to them to be that way.
But there are just too many stories about defenseless, innocent people who have done nothing wrong, or even people who may have done something wrong but at not posing a threat at that time, and they are just being killed with impunity by cops.
Just one example: the old man in the nursing home who wouldn’t take his meds. Yeah, maybe he was even a strong old man, maybe he was even out of control, but it’s very hard for me to imagine that the only way to subdue him was to kill him.
And when you think about some of the truly bizarre behavior that’s been discussed, such as examples in New Mexico, where people are taken to hospitals and given enemas, etc. to see if they have drugs up their woohas, it really makes you wonder.
And on top of all this, think of the b*tch of a DA in Texas who was driving blind drunk, but she still has her job as a LEO.
No, something has gotten very very out of whack in this country, and face it, it was never a Utopia.