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Regardless, the guy got shot eight times for drunk driving (and sheer stupidity). I'm not going to join Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and all the other minstrels of black hate in protest, but I'm not going to applaud the cops either. Anytime anyone kills an unarmed man, it should be questioned vigorously.

I did question it; I went and examined the photos.

He was unarmed. He sure tried to ACT armed--he was pointing the cell phone at the cops in a two-handed isoceles stance. BTW, there are "cell phones" that are actually disguised firearms.

This guy was not a victim; he was a volunteer.

Anytime anyone kills an unarmed man, it should be questioned vigorously.

He was armed....with a cellphone. And, he assumed the two-hand stance.

You'd think after all these kinds of shootings, the dumb perps would get the idea that they are not going to survive a confrontation like this with the cops.

I've got two boys who are cops, and they go for their guns, right away, in a tense situation like this.

This was a "suicide-by-cop" situation, anyway.

Watch the videos or check out the stills. The guy got shot 8 times for acting like he was trying to shoot somebody else. He enters into a classic two-handed shooters pose and in that lighting it looks like a stubby chrome 9-mil in his hand and he's pointing it right at one cop. Then when the other cop makes a grap for him he splits to the convenience store but he still keeps arching around holding the phone like a gun and point it at the cops. You can tell the cop closest to him (the one getting pointed at most often) honestly thinks he's going to be shot at, he's crouching and ducking and weaving doing everything he can to minimize his target profile.

Regardless of what happened before the second the guy start acting like he had a gun and intended to use it the situation became valid self defense. Things like this are exactly why cop cars have video cameras, to make it not the cops word vs nobody elses because anybody but them is dead. You can review the situation from 3 different angles (3 cars responded). Until I saw it I was with you, now that I've seen what was going on I must admit I'd shoot him too and I'd vote to aquit if I was on the jury whether it's cops or citizens doing the shooting.