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KD5NRH wrote:

gljjt wrote:This guy may be one as well. Even so, I think he made a poor call.

One could say Jim Jones was a nice guy who just happened to make a poor call with the Fla-Vor-Aid.

How bad does someone have to screw up before it negates whatever else they've done?

Frankly, I don't care if he was Mother Teresa's personal attendant and bodyguard; when he shot an innocent man over such a tenuous perception of a threat, he left the realm of even possibly being a good cop.

If you read the entirety of my posts, you would see I agree. You took my statement out of context and misinterpreted it.

I hope it doesn't appear I am cop bashing. I am not. I believe the overwhelming majority of cops are good people who want to do the right thing. This guy may be one as well. Even so, I think he made a poor call. Unfortunately it happens and there are consequences to actions.

The driver did move too fast for the situation, but not abnormally fast. Watch COPS. Many people do the same. I'll bet the vast majority who move as this man did would also only be getting their license or whatever they were asked to get. You can't shoot someone acting normally because they might have a gun. Should the former officer get the 20 years. Not in my opinion, but it looks like a bad shoot to me.

C-dub wrote:I think that is enough for me and for the police to shoot. Bobcat, at what point would you wait to shoot? Would wait until fired upon first? What if it was a gun?

But it wasn't. And if you had shot in those circumstances you would also be going to trial.

BobCat wrote:
The driver moved way too fast! First time I watched the video it looked to me like he went for a weapon and came up with one. That should not be enough to get him shot but it was a mistake for him to move so abruptly with the policeman pointing his pistol at him.

It was also a mistake for the policeman to have drawn and moved *toward* the driver instead of back toward cover.

The driver should have told the officer what intended to do. He should have moved slower.

However, that is proactive self protection. I thought the driver moved at normal speed. It appeared to me that he was doing exactly what he was told, to get his license. I didn't sense he was going for a weapon.

From what I saw, this was not a justified shooting. It appears to me the process is working correctly.