I don't know a lot about US law, but according to westerns if you shoot someone in the back you're guilty of murder.
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No, no it is not
It really is though.
not very likely I'm afraid. Come live here a while, not long before you begin to get an idea of the problem of institutional racism
He had the gun drawn. It happened in the space of 5 seconds. If he holstered the gun, that time lost means a potential bullet in his head.
I'm not making excuses - you are for an idiot who ignored police orders. You'll be the one shocked when the cop gets completely exonerated for acting perfectly within reason, which I'm absolutely certain will happen.
There's no racism in that incident. You're making an assumption based on no evidence whatsoever.
George Floyd was clear as day racism. Excessive force against a helpless suspect because of clear prejudice. This is nothing like it, not remotely comparable.
no, it's not.
Tubey, you really think it's ok to empty a clip into an unarmed man from behind? really?
Mate, if you're behind someone and think they're reaching for a gun shoot their shoulders, shoot their arms, disable them from using the gun.
Shooting someone way more times than needed to kill in the back is not the answer.
The reason he was resisting arrest was down to institutional racism
The reason the cop didn't try to de-escalate the situation is down to institutional racism
I hate to say this but you cant fully understand it till you see it.
If he shoots, catches a shoulder with one bullet, then the suspect isn't incapacitated and can still grab and fire.
The decision to shoot is to incapacitate. Totally. Hence more than one shot. One bullet, seven bullets, fifty bullets - doesn't matter, it's simply as many as it takes to incapacitate.
The officers life was in clear danger given the circumstances. When he's cleared of all wrongdoing, people will still wring their hands and scream injustice instead of looking at the situation logically. Because that's the world we live in.
Fact is, that situation doesn't happen if an idiot isn't an idiot.
I'm not getting into the legality of the shooting that's took place, but as I've said before this is really not the way it happens nor is it how you're trained.
You don’t shoot to kill: you shoot the largest body mass, which is the chest, as it is the safest thing to do in the wider context for all parties.
You have absolutely no evidence of any of that. Literally none.
So a police officer has no training/ability to incapacitate someone from a couple of feet away that isn't 7 shots to the back?
Or, if you've been called for a misdemeanor at a kids party.
Maybe try and not arrest anyone, or tazer anyone or any of that.
Maybe try and talk the people down.
Ignore the verbal taunts, think of the bigger picture.
If there is grounds to arrest someone and you think it might be difficult to arrest on site,
monitor the situation, you have their license plate numbers, you know who they are
You can serve a warrant later or stall for backup or get in community volunteers etc to help de-escalate.
If you have to shoot an unarmed person in the back seven times, you have no place being a cop.
That's the problem, too many have no place being a cop.
The system is racist and broken.
you have no evidence he was going for a weapon. Doesnt stop you.
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