Of course, why do you think they sit in their cars before approaching vehicles?
I read they he also had some outstanding warrants but I cannot be sure.
Time will tell. No doubt she screwed up, and has been charged with Manslaughter 1.
But not the legal bygones — if you’re norming to a time when that happened then I have to turn the question back on you, when were YOU born?
The guy who got shot had prior felony convictions for drugs and for assaulting a police officer
He was obviously acting weird and not complying with police officers
He did seem to reaching into the SUV. If he had had a gun, the officers would not have had time to react if she had waited much longer
On the other hand, they had 4 officers on the ground and a helo in the air so there was no real downside to backing off and de escalating
Of course, if intoxicated, the guy could have run and killed other innocent drivers in a high speed chase
You never know
I'm leaning to a judgment of a grey area , technically justified, but morally unnecessary shooting.
In the bad old days, a couple of very large , politically incorrect cops would have taken the guy down before he reached his car and cuffed him. At worst he would have been roughed up a bit with a night stick which is way better than being dead.
Sometimes old school provided the best lessons