PCP. Wasn’t that what Rodney King was on, in Los Angeles, where he became a gorilla against the officers?
Cops may have reason to believe he was on PCP. If so, a cop doesn’t dare give a guy time to arrive at nose to nose.
But, I didn’t see the video. 16 shots seems insane, or sheer panic, or both.
I don’t know if King was on it or not to be honest.
I was watching Drugs, Inc. on Nat Geo one night, the show was about PCP. This is a drug that is apparently mostly exclusive to poor black neighborhoods for some reason.
This woman was filming this guy who was high on it. He was walking naked outside with his intestines hanging out of his belly. She told him you are going to die and pointed to his visible organs hanging, and he looked at them like he didn’t even care or much even notice.
Then he proceeded to get into a fight with a tree.
All I can say is, it seems to turn people into rabid animals.
So a cop "belives" a suspect may be on PCP so they can start blazing away?