The city will probably settle, they usually do. Pay day for the lawyer.
Why not?
Baby thug playing stupid games: “tagging” graffiti - vandalism, while carrying a gun. Baby thug won the appropriate prize for that game. I’m okay with the outcome (and, no, I didn’t notice and don’t care whether this baby thug was Hispanic, black, Asian, white, or whatever).
’ give chase down Cesar Chavez Avenue.’
Lived in Boyle Heights for three years. The public and the cops were equally savage. No one was safe. Ever.
Fourteen year old boy.
Armed.
Committing vandalism.
Running from the police.
Had to have had his hands on the gun in order to throw it.
IMHO this is a 100% justifiable shooting and I’m normally critical of the police when they overreact.
In this case they did their job.
Well done, officers. Thank you!
“Jesse tossed it before he was shot”
possible sequence:
1)perp fires shot behind him towards corner and turns forward, facing away from corner
2)cop rounds corner
3)perp turns around to face corner again w/gun still in hand
4)cop fires.
Only problem I see is cop says “get down” after he fires.
Nevertheless, can’t say good/bad shoot w/out seeing actual orientation of perp when shots fired. W/o know anymore I’d take the cop’s word on this one because of the shot first fired.
He had a gun and was running from the police
Benefit of the doubt goes to the police.
Modern weapons do not fire accidentally when dropped. Case closed.
They always make it Job One to get that body camera footage out to clear the air, huh.
Some real Columbo-style cogitation going on there.
Yes, the city will settle and the tax payers will be on the hook for another stupid thuggette. 1) don’t play stupid games. 2) kids shouldn’t have illegal guns. 3) don’t run from a cop. 4) obey cops’ orders. This was 100% the kid’s fault.
Running shows desperate action and that desperation only increased with the chase.
When an animal is trapped, it will strike out.
The officer acted as expected in a dangerous encounter with a desperate criminal.