You know we now have software that will write a simple news story. Just fill in the variables like – taDah! – who, how what when where why, eh, voila, another police shooting story. I’ve seen examples. Can’t tell the difference between a human written and SW written.
Officer Tiller: “Ooh wee . . . .Just like the silhouette at the practice range. Point blank. Bam Bam can’t miss. Oh . . . . . that was a live person. . . . . .so, what’s your point.”
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Another loser who is psychologically unfit to be a police officer. America is full of these creeps/
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Exactly, he kept dancing further and further out in front of the car creating danger where there absolutely was none. He could’ve let the kids drive off, given pursuit, and stopped him on down the road. He didn’t give the kid an opportunity to rethink his actions and he manufactured the opportunity to kill him. What a putrid human being. I hope the kid’s family wins a huge judgment against him personally, the city, and the department.
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Entrapment with immediate summary execution. How efficient.
Only in America …
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I’d be interested to know the appearance of the cop who sold the weed. Was he a small town Frank Serpico because the shooter looks like 90% of every Southern cop I’ve ever seen.
While he didn’t need to shoot the kid (shooting the tires would have done the trick), why was the kid so stupid as to try to drive away when a cop had a gun pointed at him? Had he learned nothing about how violent most police officers are over the last year or more with almost daily reports of police shooting and usually killing unarmed people?
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Why did a kid who had done nothing wrong try to get away from some violent nutjob pointing a gun at him and his friend? Given that he was executed his fear of being executed seems pretty justified.
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This. As soon as a police officer escalates a confrontation by drawing a weapon these days, the person being confronted would seem to have a reasonable fear of being a victim of unlawful homicide. And from the anecdata attempting to comply with the gunman’s orders is not necessarily safer than trying to escape.
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Shooting tires rarely works, although with a car moving this slowly it might have worked. As for driving away, we’ll never know, but if someone runs at me with a gun, screaming and yelling, I might have the instinctual reaction to get the hell out of there.
Now, as for how it was possible for this kid – or anyone, for that matter – to run over someone on the side of hte car, I have no answer. None of the cars I’ve ever owned have had the ability to drive sideways, yet this is a common defense for homicidal police officers, along with “he reached for something!” or “he charged at me!”
It will probably be a while before we start to demand more of our law enforcement, a long time before they actually “serve and protect.”
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Oh yeah. That was clearly justified. That cop might have died of annoyance if he’d had to get back into his car and chase a scared, confused kid some more.
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We have to make cowardice, stupidity and homicidal meanness felonies. It’s the only way to charge these worthless cowboys who are in constant fear for their lives.
Conservatives do not consider murder inappropriate.
Yes, he was shown to be a violent nutjob. However, he was obviously a policeman nutjob and not some random armed citizen nutjob as he came blazing into the parking lot with his lights flashing and he was wearing a uniform. While shooting was not the right response in this situation, flight was not the right response either. Do you make it a point to hit the gas if a cop is behind you on the road with his lights flashing? The kid wasn’t fleeing a random armed man, he was trying to flee a cop because his date had just bought some dope.
That being said, I hope the Justice Department proceeds against the officer since the locals are apparently worthless scum and he used lethal force in a situation that did not warrant it.
I’d be all for instituting the British practice of most cops not carrying guns. I’d rather a criminal get away than this sort of thing keep happening.
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Another cop gets away with murder.
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What is this trend towards posting video of people getting their heads blown off? It would make Charlie Brooker blush.
Justice Department should be sizing this up under civil rights violation(s)-- no?
The SC legal eagles who have closed this case are in for a sh^tstorm IMHO.
The family should be looking for large $$$ in damages.
This is the only way to convince cities, towns, and counties to police their LEOs-- or pay dearly.
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Killing the driver of a moving car is always a good move. Nothing bad can come of that.
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It appears its an unmarked police car…and he only turns on the lights after he pulls up behind the car…the lights being in the grill.
So its entirely likely the kid freaked out when some guy comes speeding up on him and jumps out of the car screaming and waving a gun…Fight or Flight mode takes over and the kid started to fly. And the cop only identified himself as a cop seconds (if that long) before he pulled the trigger.
The really scary part of all this police violence is how quickly people go to blaming the victim in an effort to justify the killing. Its like if the can keep up the facade that if they do nothing wrong, no cop will ever shoot them. But the lists of wrong doings which cops use to justify violence and summary executions is way too long for that to work. Its not a matter of you doing something wrong…its only a matter of the cop thinking you did something wrong.
Yet here in Oregon we are allowed to have an ounce of weed on our person when we are outside our domicile.
The dichotomy between the laws here and other states is frightening. A kid lost his life over a dime bag? The cop felt a need to escalate a stop over a dime bag?
Why does this fucking insanity even need to exist??
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