Columbus cop shooting

[WRnative]

Originally Posted by Natural510

Carelessness leading to harm is different from forcing the threat of violence on another, but otherwise I agree we should let the situation play out.

Incurring injury from having someone else's car smash into you due to the other driver's criminal negligence is a form of violence. The difference from this episode is in intent, but someone with a BB gun does not intend to harm someone, just threaten violence in order to carry out a robbery. In decades past, impaired drivers were tolerated because the lack of intent was the governing standard. No longer.

Admittedly, the officer in this case had no way of knowing whether this was a BB gun or an actual gun, and was operating under a report of an actual armed robbery, one actually committed by the deceased individual. This is a much different factual pattern than in the Tamir Rice case.

The officer's culpability, if any, likely is most at risk if the victim actually was shot in the back.

[WRnative]

Bryan Mason, the police officer involved in this shooting apparently is a decisive officer, who seems to find himself in difficult situations, which is a good thing IMO.

Ohio cop who fatally shot Tyre King once helped saved life of boy - NY Daily News

[WRnative]

<<“Based on the location and the direction of the wound paths it is more likely than not that Tyre King was in the process of running away from the shooter or shooters when he suffered all three gunshot wounds,” the examiner, Dr Francisco Diaz, said, according to a statement from the family. Co-attorney Sean Walton told the Guardian in an email that Diaz conducted his examination of Tyre’s body on Sunday. The attorneys didn’t immediately respond to a request for a copy of Diaz’s report.>>

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...olice-examiner

The Guardian is a major British newspaper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian

IF this article is accurate, the Diaz report may conclude that King was shot in the back while running from the police.

When it reported on the Diaz examination, the Dispatch apparently left out the Diaz conclusion, apparently reported in a statement from the King family's law firm, that King "was in the process of running away from the shooter or shooters when he suffered all three gunshot wounds." Instead, the Dispatch quoted an eye witness that King was shot in the front of his body:

<<[Demetrius Braxton] said he saw King shot in the front of his body “four or five times.” >>

Tyre King companion to stay in jail after lawyer waives bail | The Columbus Dispatch

It would be interesting to know if the Dispatch has as of yet received a copy of the Diaz report, and if and when the Dispatch became aware that the family's medical examiner had concluded that King was running from the police when fatally shot.

[WRnative]

This Reuters article reports that Francisco Diaz, the medical examiner hired by the Tyre King family to examine King's body, concluded that the entrance wounds were on the left side of the body, not the back.

<< He found the boy "suffered three gunshot wounds with entrance paths on the left side of his body, any of which could be determined to have been the cause of death,” the attorneys said.>>

Teen killed by Columbus, Ohio, police was shot while fleeing: family's attorneys | Reuters

[WRnative]

What did Tyre King’s family know the night he was killed? | NBC4i.com

[HPY1]

Originally Posted by Buckeye614

The teenager used that bb gun to rob a liquor store for cash. Then proceeded to flee the scene and then draw that bb gun on an officer once he was apprehended. It was dark out, the officer had mere seconds to react and likely wanted to see his wife and kids again.

I think this story is more indicative of the issues on The Near East Side of Columbus than issues with CPD officers. No matter your race or age you can't draw a weapon on an officer of the law and expect nothing to happen.

I agree completely. It is sad. Everyone, even kids, know you do not point Guns, even fake ones or BB guns, at police. Or touch or handle a weapon near police without doing so at their direction.