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Liberty wrote:The cop was screaming, conflicting and confusing orders. The young man was scared and seemed to be doing his best to comply. The Officer kept saying he was gonna kill the boy for the slightest infraction.

Back in the day our drill sergeants would get in our faces and scream at us. We all figured out that it required a lot more concentration when the emotions ran high. I am not an LEO but I was left wondering right at the beginning why they didn't secure and cuff the guy as soon as he was face down. Instead the guy was hollering telling him to do all kinds of silly things. I know if it were me I would have had a hard time following his instructions and I wouldn't have had anything to drink. This guy was sounding like he was real anxious to kill himself a badguy.

Part of the case apparently hinged on the fact that the cop had “[expletive] You!” printed on his ejection port cover. The prosecutor used that fact as part of his indictment of the cop’s frame of mind. Just a bad deal all the way around. I don’t care what a LTC chooses to carry, or what kind of long gun one chooses to have in one’s vehicle - but as private citizens, we are allowed that luxury. Police are not. NO cop should be using anything except either an issued weapon, or a individually department-approved weapon.......not because I think it is morally wrong, but because it opens up the officer to a liability that was actually used against him in court. In this case, it was obviously not a righteous shooting; but even if it was righteous, it would not look good in court, before a jury, if the cop was using some kind of tarted up privately owned weapon, with “inflammatory” sayings printed or engraved on it. It’s why I won’t even use something like a receiver that’s engraved with “live free or die” on it, or one of those Warthog lowers or the one with the magwell in the shape of a skull. They might be interesting “art”, but an overzealous prosecutor might use them to call question to your mental or emotional state when you use that gun on a real human.