I have been wondering about the object seen tossed to the ground at the start of the video.
I am going to assume it was the taser in question. I do not know how it was tossed or if the man went for it or if he was tased with it or anything else.
What I want to know is why the officer moved it near the man’s body after the shooting.
The only thing I can come up with, and it’s very weak, is that the man was being tased, and the wire was spooled out leaving a long length of wire between the gun and the man, and the officer moved it there to not have those lengths of wires in the way of everyone about to show up.
Any thing other than that seems to me like he was manipulating the scene, and I do think that he was manipulating the scene.
So I would like to know what is in his police report and what he told his superiors. If he said I moved the taser to a location near the man’s body for X reason, and did not try to hide that the gun had been moved, then I might believe he wasn’t trying to plant evidence.
But if he made no mention at all of moving it and further said the man took it, then he’s planting evidence.
Regardless of what was done with the taser, I can still see no justification in the shooting at all as the man was moving away from the officer without a weapon and presenting a threat to no one at the time of the shooting.
Now that's an interesting theory. I agree that what the police officer did on video sure doesn't look right. It looks like he was planting something. And, given that he'd just shot a man as he was running away, I wouldn't trust his story. This looks really, really bad.
My first thought is that the cop is dirty. But sometimes things aren't as they appear to be.
I happened to have witnessed something similar happen around 25 years ago while riding the subway home from work one late night. Only a few passengers were on the train. One was my coworker. And a very drunk man, probably homeless, was on the train, too, listening to his Walkman (a radio/tape player with headphones attached).
Someone must've alerted the subway police (known for being rough). I remember my coworker being annoyed by the man, as a matter of fact. The train stopped. The police walked on, removing this guy from the train and onto the platform.
As they're holding the man, I saw the guy stumble and fall, while the officer holding him was holding his Walkman. Picture the officer's hand grasping the radio and holding it up, to keep it from being pulled down with the headphones along with the man who'd just fallen.
That's what I saw.
But the other passengers, including my coworker, jumped up and yelled at the officers. They thought the cop had raised his hand to hit the man. Now I don't know what the police did after the train pulled away; they might've roughed him up then. But that's not what happened before our very eyes. The officer was holding a radio up, not planning to hit the man. My coworker, though, wouldn't listen to me the next day. She insisted that they were getting ready to beat him up right in front of us.
Anyway, with the wires attached, etc., your theory sounds similar.