TexasCHLforum.com

srothstein wrote: ↑Fri Sep 11, 2020 10:43 pm.

I cannot see a clear reason for the sergeant to have shot him in the beginning of the incident, but that was confused by the way Acevedo cut the videos together and narrated them. I don't see where Chavez left the officers any choice at the end but to shoot him.

srothstein wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 9:00 pm

C-dub wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 6:20 pm Wow!

Arm chair Monday morning response and only 48 seconds of information, but if all he had was a sharpened piece of rebar I gotta wonder how Mr. Gamaldi thinks that was justified.

I only watched a 16 minute video of the incident that was released by HPD and was narrated by Acevedo and spliced from the edited videos of the various body cameras. Since it was from a link where Acevedo announced that he had fired the officers for having such little regard for human life, I assumed it would show something that justified their firing.

After viewing the video from Acevedo, and from an ex-officer's point of view, I cannot see how Acevedo expects to make the firings stick. To me, it was a legally justified shooting. I can see where someone with no police training MIGHT question some of it, especially the first shooting. I can see where the anti-police media would say it was wrong. But the police and their lawyers can explain how it was justified pretty clearly, in my opinion.

Note, there may be something in HPD policy that I am unaware of that would make the shooting a violation of policy and justify the firings for that reason. I am going based on legal reasons as opposed to policy. With that proviso, I expect that HPD is going to start seeing some of the mass exit of officers that cities like Atlanta, New York, and Minneapolis are seeing.