I am disappointed on the posts I am seeing. I have read several other much more compete and less biased reports on this particular incident.
What was not mentioned here is that the guy who was shot was blind stinking drunk and had a revolver that he pointed at his neighbors and threatened to shoot them. They were cleaning up the garbage can that the drunk kicked into the street earlier and told them they were unhappy about that. That is why the police were called. In addition, there was a history of violence with the guy who was shot. There was also a loaded handgun and loaded shotgun just inside the door that he was going back in through.
I would rather have him dead than holding a baby and the loaded handgun (and shotgun) that they found just inside the door and later using the kid as a hostage.
And, NO, I am not a “police can do no wrong” kind of person. In this case I am not joining the call for this officers head. But go ahead and join the chorus based on a very biased news story if you want to.
thanks Jim...
How do you square that with "Detectives found no weapon on Loxas following the shooting" ?
I don’t see anything that required the police to execute the man.
If they really wanted to take the man into custody without hurting him or the baby, why not use a tranquilizer? Why execute him without a trial?
They are SWAT. Why don’t they have ‘Special Weapons and Tactics’ that actually save lives? Or is SWAT used only for killing?
Instead, he was just murdered.
And, yes, we the people are the ‘oversight’ in our community, so it is our duty to question everything.
This was quite obviously a residential situation ~ and absent actual gunfire earlier there's little justification for shooting up the place.
In the end the man did not have a gun. Somebody lied about that. FRY HIM!