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Originally Posted by Rochard
My guess is that he was trying to pull his pants up. However, when a police officer tells you to crawl and instead you put your hand up to your back to the waistband where someone who have a handgun, well....
Here is a screen shot. The arrow points to his arm. He was told to crawl, and it's very easy to see how a police officer would think he was reaching for a firearm...
The guy was most likely drinking and paying attention to police orders wasn't too high on his list of priorities at that exact moment. |
I always thought the rules of deadly force dictate that it's only to be used against an equally lethal show of force. Was there a gun visible and pointed at anyone? No.
Cops are paid to be in harm's way and they can't shoot citizens because they think their life may be in danger in the next few seconds. This is another example of a cop, barking like a scared dog and then taking a life -- which inevitably was going to happen anyway, whether it was this guy or someone else. It was his destiny to shoot someone dead once he was given his authority as a police officer. He sounds like a high strung wreck of a man scared of his own shadow and shouldn't be in situations where can shoot a citizen with an AR15.