Understood. But I did watch the video - all of it and to me there is no need for a back-story unless this guy had just butchered somebody and was fleeing with a machete in his hand off to butcher some more people. It was murder. Premeditated.
If the guy turned out to be the Beltway Sniper and he let him go, we would be kicked his azz right now. But it could explained away.
He was clearly criminally wrong to shoot him but withholding information about the victim in order to avoid discoloring him is wrong too.
The narrative is about a white cop killing a black person for no reason other than racism. The reality is that a government agent gunned down a private citizen for failing to obey.
That is gonna be crazy hard to prove.
There have been so many conclusions jumped to in this story, and I have hardly followed it. I have heard that he planted evidence by moving what they think is the taser. This looked like a park or something. If the guy ended up 50 feet away, the cop should secure his taser (or back-up gun) and not leave it laying around, unless the scene was secure (which it wasnt).
I don't see how this was a justified shooting, but there is a lot I don't know. We know we already had a chase, I have no idea how long that went on. Then a physical confrontation. Again, we don't know any details, but we do have video of the last seconds of some sort of confrontation - a fight? an argument?
A lot we don't know yet.