So the officer was trying to shoot the man with a child’s mind and not the black guy?
That doesn’t make it better. The officers had plenty of time to gauge the situation and deescalate. The therapist explained the situation quite clearly. (I’ve posted the link four times already. That doesn’t make the shooting all right.) Is it all right to shoot a person with Alzheimers? How about a diabetic in hypoglycemic shock?
The officer chose to shoot.
NOT a good call.
I’m grateful to our small town PD. They’re good men who know their community and take care of us all.
You can hear wind on the audio. The camera might have been able to pick up more than the officer’s could.
I’m entirely willing to consider that the officer might have used poor judgment, even that he is lying after the fact.
But I don’t see why we can’t let the investigations play out, and even if we THINK someone is guilty or innocent, we qualify that with the caveat that there is yet to be a proper investigation.
I sat on a jury once, and our instructions were not to talk about the case until deliberations, and not to arrive at any final judgments until we heard ALL the evidence.
I’m UTTERLY amazed and really disturbed by the fact that we are rapidly becoming a lynch mob society, casually and lazily drawing conclusions about people’s guilt or innocence. Often someone, even here, won’t read a whole story, or follow up on obvious questions, yet they have no problem pronouncing someone’s guilt.
God says He hates that, that He hates both the innocent being improperly convicted and the guilty being allowed to go free.
This leaping to judgments is really a huge problem. And I apologize if it seems I’m directing this all at you, or if it seems like I’m forgetting your concerns that apparently someone unarmed and just lying there on the ground, hands up, was shot. I’m glad you care.
But understand, there are truly many people in this country who don’t care about facts. They are going for how to get power for themselves, and ruthlessly using these cases, whatever the facts may be, to help get that power, is all they care about.
I just posted the other day about CNN apparently altering the Alton Sterling video. It appears it moved up the sound of the gunshots. There is no doubt that the first three gunshots in their version are in a different spot in the video.
They probably played this video over and over on t.v., and no wonder many people thought the officer who wasn’t on top of Sterling shot him in cold blood - which caused so much outrage, that this was an “execution.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3450819/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3450819/posts?page=14#14 (A photo three screenshots - one from CNN, one from CBS, and one from the Young Turks. In each case, I stopped the video right when I heard the third gun shot. All three images should be about the same, but while the CBS and YT videos align, the CNN one does not).
What about the conduct of whoever tampered with the video that way - knowingly, deliberately, with ample time to consider their decision, and doing so apparently to cause unrest and conflict?