“We conclude that such force may not be used unless it is necessary to prevent the escape and the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others.”
Somebody come up with evidence that the officer had such probable cause and I’ll buy it.
It should be noted that the case in question decided the TN statute was unconstitutional because it authorized deadly force in a case not greatly dissimilar to this one.
Except in that case the dead dude was fleeing a burglary, a serious felony, and in this case he was fleeing a burntout tail light.
Someone come up with evidence that the cop *didn't* have such probable cause and I might start buying "murder".We come back (yet again) to that inconvenient fact...*nobody*,at this moment,has enough evidence to declare "cold blooded murder" *or* "justified shooting".