As someone who realizes the police have a tough job and am willing to cut them a break in many circumstances, this isn’t one of them. So what if he was on drugs, mentally ill people act in similar ways. He was unarmed and posed no immediate threat that required that officer to shoot him. It could have easily been handled better. That some are trying to justify this particular shooting boggles my mind.
The shootupee should have been enjoying his drugs while just hanging out in the backyard with his dog. Parking in the middle of the street is a bad plan.
You do realize he was a big man, had been convicted of using and selling PCP (which the cops may have known if they ran his plate) and was acting erratically. He went to reach in a car (if you watch the video, you can see the police might not have been able to tell if the window was open or closed) and who knows if he was going to pull out a gun.
The fact that the taser and the gun were fired at nearly the same time tells me it wasn’t just one cop with a itchy trigger finger.
That is an easy statement to make by someone who has never wrestled with a person on pcp.