The presence of 4 officers and a helicopter means there has to be more to this story...
Women cops far more likely to shoot because being weaker and smaller, more situations can be claimed “they fear for their lives”.
Not saying the cops are blameless here, but ....why would you ever disobey a cops order when they have guns trained on you? Not smart.
Sorry, after the behavior of the BLM types I have better things to do than scrutinize crappy video trying to determine if the police acted appropriately. Those days are gone. I don’t care.
And once again...
If he had done what the officers had told him to do he would be alive.
Backing up to your vehicle, and then reaching into it when they are ordering you to surrender is not behaviour that will make them love you more.
The video does raise questions. Will be interesting to see the body cameras. If erased, that raises big red flags. Very suspicious overall.
If she committed murder, then charge her with murder. If the taser cop committed assault with the taster, then charge him with assault.
At such time as charges are filed, I will consider evidence presented.
Until such time, I don’t care at all.
No, I am not going to be whipped into a frenzy, because it’s real damn easy to survive an encounter with police.
Let the facts be revealed
From the video I saw, the guy appeared to be standing and reaching into the vehicle.... there was chopper video that seemed to show that was the circumstance.
3 police cars and a helicopter.
Suspect casually (though hands up) wanders away from officer pointing a gun at him (presumably screaming “don’t move, get down”), and over to his vehicle window.
Unclear exactly what happened in the end, but suspect clearly acted to escalate tensions to the point of a furtive movement validating a shooting. May have been a bad shoot, arguably explained by the taser shot triggering the gunshot (if multiple cops are pointing guns at a suspect, and one shoots, understandable if the others shoot too).
Based on this little, looks like another argument against “non-lethal” weapons. Initiating “non-lethal” force in the presence of hair-trigger lethal force (chambered, sights on target, finger on trigger) may prompt the latter.
Must be GREAT to be Allahpundit, knowing how to deal with life or death situations and all circumstances.
Why did he ever get into scribbling opinions for a living? He should have been in charge of training police nation wide.
Act hinky.
Get treated hinky
Doesn’t make sense for him to be heading back to his vehicle instead of getting on the ground unless he was ignoring police pointing weapons at him.
Whatever the real facts are is not important, the BLM narrative template is now the basis for every police shooting...
cops murdered him because he was black...
there is no other explanation...
facts be dammed...
Was the vehicle disabled as first reported or not, that seems to be an essential question.
Uh, no... he did not have his hands up. He had HAD his hands up, while he walked to his SUV. Then he reached into the SUV. After a few weeks of rioting, we’ll find out what the police say happened.
Look how liberal our culture has become:
If this happened in 1965 the people would have said “he got what he deserved when he did not obey the policemen.”
Today: “The dirty cops shot an innocent person for no reason other than it was an easy way to make an arrest...dead or alive......worse yet the victim was “pure as the driven snow” and had just left Sunday School and was going to pick his sick mother up and take her to the doctor.”
Up until the mid 60’s the cops would shout “stop, or I will shoot” and if you did not stop...they would shoot and we had much better respect for law and order back then.....NOT TODAY!
Regardless, their site is full of mal-ware, and the video in question loads with some fake Flash message in the middle of it that I have zero interest in clicking on.
Here is a *MUCH* better site that has both videos, in larger format and a more intelligent write up:
No, IMO.
Not “cops.” ONE female cop.