Posted on 07/21/2016 8:33:17 AM PDT by Marie
There is NO way to spin this. This is a very, very bad shoot. It's on video.
Scared libs calling 911 reporting they saw a gun has gotten more than one innocent person killed.
If someone thinks you look odd then anything you have in your hand is a gun when he calls 9-1-1.
This was a bad move by the officers. One look at the young man would tell you he was autistic, somewhat obese, sitting harmlessly, and ‘stimming’ or rocking back and forth.
The Therapist was literally on his back with hands extended.
Both the therapist and the client will be traumatized by this experience , but in different ways. Even though the therapist is very likely not in the wrong here, he may find it difficult to get approval to work in this field afterward.
Of course, with the right lawyers, he really won’t have to worry about living expenses.
Tough shit. Police: shoot sooner, more, and more often, please.
—
Okay to shoot an innocent man? Bizarre.
If things are as they appear, the officer that did that should be fired and possibly imprisoned.
Saw an interview with the black guy. He asked the cop why he shot him. He said that the cop said; “I don’t know”.
That cop is toast. His career is over and chances are good that he’ll be jailed as well. This guy single handed destroyed the sacrifice of those cops shot. You better bet there will be some screaming and yelling from the BLM movement as well as the liberal press, Hillary and 0bozo.
You first old fool.
It is going to be very interesting to see how the police spokesman handles this
With the video already being viewed by millions,
they are going to have to come out and address the situation VERY Soon
Yup. I suspect no one is more angry at this guy than other cops, who will now have an even bigger target on their backs.
The video I saw doesn’t show the actual shooting just the victim laying on the ground with his hands in the air. What I did see of the cops looked like they were at least 20 yards away in a posture behind their cars aiming rifles at the guy with his hands up. If that’s how it went down then that makes it even worse - cop can’t say he was in a close quarters life threatening situation where he had a split second to make a life or death decision.
Where in the video was he actually shot? I can’t find it. How can anyone decide if you can’t see the actual moment of the shooting.
It looks like a bad shoot, but where is the video at the moment?
There’s another video where you can hear that.
Here it is. The ‘i don’t know’ is toward the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEJpRGIDbhY
Looks bad. That’s why we have an app for that.
Let the system work.
Cop thought he was the rapist.
THIS is why people are not supporting cops: They cry Boo Hoo! on one hand and Bang! Bang! with the other.
It will be interesting to see what the BLM crowd does.
Their previous actions IMHO were clearly pre-planned, and they picked whatever black man was killed that time, whether valid or not, as a pretext to hit the streets and push their political message.
here we have a case that appears to be outrageous - but what will BLM do?
I watched the video and didn't see the actual shooting. However, unless the therapist did something radically different than what he was doing in the clip I saw, I would agree that the cop messed up big time.
Since the guy was only wounded, I wonder why they aren't showing the actual shooting... or did I miss it?
At first glance I thought it said that an “Unarmed Behavior” Therapist had gotten shot, and I thought - major fail.
A long, long time ago I was accepted to an engineering program starting with fall classes. That prior summer, I figured my life was heading to all facts and figures for the duration, so I took a job at a group home for developmentally disabled adults for some social maturing. That was an eye-opener, let me tell you.
They had one patient of Japanese descent. He spoke no English, and was a fairly big guy for his background. Every once in a while, he would get upset about something and try to storm out of the group home. Security was spotty, and he often succeeded. He’d take a beeline for the nearest arterial and start walking; always in the same direction. I don’t know if he was heading for his nearest family members, or if he thought he could walk back to Japan.
I was the other big guy there, and a newbie, so it was my job to chase after him and turn him around. Once headed back to the group home, he would calm down and go back inside. But it wasn’t easy. He had palsy in one arm, but would flail out and try to scratch with the other arm. It took quite a bit of physical force to turn him around, while not hurting him, and not getting hurt. We did this dance a few times, often in traffic with cars whizzing around.
No one ever called the cops on us (probably because there were no cell phones back then). I’ve wondered how that would play out now, and I guess I have my answer. At least my Japanese friend never escaped or got hurt during my summer working there.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.