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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
I watched the video of this tonight and what I saw was the cops stopped a car. They felt that the driver was under the influence so they gave him a field sobriety test. It looked to me that they were about to give him a breathalyzer. He grabbed the officers taser and started running. The officer gave chase and at one point the man turned and fired the taser at the officer. The officer returned fire and killed the man.
Was that shooting justified?
The police chief has resigned, the officer has been fired and his partner suspended.
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Actually, the offender had placed a drive-thru order at Wendy’s and fallen asleep behind the while before he picked up his food. Perhaps he had placed the car in Park or turned it off. Other cars in line were driving around his car to pick up their orders. That’s suspicious. Especially when it does on for ten minutes. However, I’ve fallen asleep at traffic lights a couple times in mid afternoon. It’s scary and dangerous. I can sympathize.
There’s no excuse for resisting arrest, attacking the cops, knocking them to the ground, or stealing a Taser about to be used on one, or trying to shoot it at one of the cops. That was a really stupid move. I believe in law and order. I don’t like to see that. The man’s actions should be taken into account as mitigating circumstances.
However, it is hard to be seriously injured much less killed by a man armed only with a just fired taser who is running away. The lives of these cops were no longer in danger, even though they were in danger seconds before and facing a reprimand for losing a Taser to a person resisting arrest. They had the man’s car, keys, address, access to his family. Picking him up later or having other cops pick him up later would be the logical choice. This was not a man who had just shot someone and was carrying a firearm. The danger was minimal.
I know adrenaline flows and people get carried away and make mistakes, but this was NOT a clean shooting.
As for the people who burned down that Wendy’s, though, I hope they are caught and receive long prison terms for arson, perhaps aggravated by it being a hate crime.