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A witness outside the hotel called and reported a man was pointing a firearm out a hotel window. After the Las Vegas tragedy. The police consider him armed and dangerous, not having had a chance to identify the firearm for themselves. He makes a motion to reach for something at/around his waistband. The cop has no choice but to assume he's reaching for a gun, having already been reported as armed and pointing a firearm out the hotel window.
Not quite as cut and dried as everyone had assumed from the brief clip shown on the news.
You post that & now you're trying to say "the trial was after Las Vegas". You had no idea what you're talking about & now you're trying to move the goalpost. You were wrong & we all know it. Quit posting.
I cannot believe there are people who think this murder was justified. You guys make me sick.
Anyone who doesn't know that making a movement consistent with reaching for a weapon under such circumstances is an idiot. Sorry, but that's the truth. LEO is trained to shoot suspects reaching for a weapon. Standard self-defense protocol.
The murdered man was drunk and attempting to comply with the officers bizarre commands when he tried to pull his shorts up. Secondly the officer fired multiple shots when one shot would have been sufficient.
The officer was not acting as a real police officer. He was acting out of fear. He was a "little miss sissy pants" and should have never been hired by any police force. Fear is the motivator in most of these senseless killings committed by police.
All police departments should be held responsible for their officers. This was an act of murder plain and simple. I expect the widow will win a settlement at the loss of her husband and father of their children. The killer will go free.
The prosecutor in Cleveland was at least voted out of office.
True, but even when the put someone new in there, I wonder if the job is inherently subject to the pressure from the DA and the town to cover for the police?
The officer was not acting as a real police officer. He was acting out of fear. He was a "little miss sissy pants" and should have never been hired by any police force.
Can you please show us where, in any police manual or job application, it states cops must never, ever feel fear or any other human emotion? Can you? Are they robots?
They are human. Of course they feel fear.
DOH!
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