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Originally Posted by blackmonsters
I think the point is that the coroner didn't rule it an accidental death which would make it
virtually impossible to charge anyone with the death.
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Calling it homicide just means death at the hands of another, it makes no assumptions about criminality of the act. Homicide is a very different word than murder.
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Originally Posted by bronco67
Ok, but they had him gunned down within 3 seconds of stopping the car.I'm surprised they didn't shoot out the window while the car was still rolling. What ever happened to assessing a situation before taking a life?
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And that's the fault of the cop driving the car, when he pulled up so close to the kid he didn't give the cop who shot any time to make an assessment, the cop was in the open with no cover close enough to get to in a few seconds as he sees a hand go for a gun in the waistband, what did you expect him to do just stand there? I think being so close he could have run towards the kid and maybe tackled him before the kid could get the gun out, but that's just me second-guessing I wasn't there.
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Originally Posted by bronco67
Black person. Possible gun. Shoot.
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You are making an assumption that race had anything to do with it.
I watched a very interesting story on CNN about a study using real cops in shoot/don't shoot virtual situations and a curious fact emerged during the study, a very high percentage of white cops tested hesitated to shoot when the suspect was black.
But that doesn't fit the narrative that says that cops are trigger-happy racists, no story there.
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Originally Posted by bronco67
And the officer who shot him is a known shitbird who kicked off another police force for being immature during the handing of firearms.
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Yeah I agree with you on that the guy should never have been a cop, and there are lots of bad cops that police departments are aware of but can't get rid of them because of powerful unions.
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Originally Posted by Tom_PM
Maybe it's time to consider the possibility that changes in training and procedure need to happen.
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