Originally Posted by dconstrukt

i get the whole scenario? from reading the testimony released today?

no one in their right mind does what he did to the officer initially. Had he acted like a normal, rational person this would have been avoided.

but? we as taxpayers? the police spent millions of our dollars on non-lethal arms.. like stun guns? the officer said in his own words, i didn't carry one because it was too heavy and uncomfortable.

if he had? perhaps the kid would have been zapped?. unconscious and arrested? as he should have been.

Or maybe the cop shoots in the leg or something?

aren't they trained to use a weapon?

but shooting 10 times?

i mean, that doesn't strike you as a wee bit excessive?

And where's the backup? I mean where I live, and get a traffic ticket there's 2 cop cars up your rear end?