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Originally Posted by gerryann
The cover up was certainly awful and should not have happened.
As awful as the killing was, I can somehow understand how it happened. I feel that the officer was extremely frightened, felt his life was in jeopardy and justifiably shot the first shot.
After the first shot, I think he just freaked out...adrenaline kicked in and I feel he was temporarily in sane. He just went nuts and shot, and shot, and shot 16 times. Terrible and awful....but this is what I think might have happened.
I'm certainly not justifying his actions, just kind of understanding what may have happened.
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Sorry, but I have to disagree. The kid was nowhere near the police officer. As a matter of fact, he was walking AWAY from the police car. What, pray tell, was he afraid of? To come out shooting was inexcusable. To continue shooting after the first shot put the kid down was unforgivable and just plain inexcusable in my mind. This officer is a sorry excuse for a LEO at best and a racist murderer at worst, but probably falls somewhere in between the two.