LAPD Chief Discusses Investigation Of Corvette Driver Killed By Police

CBSLA.com) ^ | December 16, 2013 7:27 PM | Dave Lopez

[Kickass Conservative]

I think I counted a dozen Cop Cars right after the Corvette hit the other car.

Imagine if the Corvette driver was one of Obama’s Sons instead of a Creepy Cracka. This would be the above the fold Headline in the NYT.

[TChad]

This would be the above the fold Headline in the NYT.

And the rioting would have already begun in Watts. Because the ONLY reason the cops would ever shoot a suspect is RACISM!

[Panzerfaust]

This link seems appropriate:

http://youtu.be/QR465HoCWFQ

[PapaBear3625]

How is this situation different from Rodney King? We had riots and outrage because a man who led police on a chase was beaten by police, and in this case we have them openly assasinating a man who led police on a chase.

This situation is VERY different from Rodney King.

The shot person is a white military veteran. Possibly a registered Republican.

[mabarker1]

Before an officer discharges a bean bag the protocol is for them to loudly state, ‘Bean bag ready. Bean bag ready,’ so that everybody knows that the detonation they hear is not a gunshot,” Beck said.

So the bean bag is "detonated" out of the shotgun, but it's NOT shot out?

Maybe it's sent out the end of a giant Blowgun- yeah that's the ticket...

[sport]

You left out, “If he had never been born.”

[OldPossum]

One of that cult’s charter members got the ZOT last month.

Just curious. Who was that?

[Venturer]

Pack syndrome.

One guy fires and they all think they have to unload.

[Venturer]

I watched the video and I didn’t see a high speed chase.

Looked to me like the guy just wouldn’t stop.

Of course the video was kind of limited.

But how many police officers do we need in a pursuit anyway?

Does a pursuit mean that every officer within a hundred miles has to get involved in it?

[sport]

Alaska Wolf, I presume.

[BenLurkin]

For years blacks complained about being gunned down like this white guy was — and whites had no sympathy for them.

Now that LEOs are shooting whites the way they shot blacks for years — maybe the scales will fall from white eyes.

[zeugma]

I don’t believe they were mistaken, but I can imagine the other cops reacting impulsively to the sound of the initial gunshot. I suspect this happens frequently.

Thank God us normal citizens don't just open fire indiscriminately when we hear what sounds like a gunshot. Oh, right. We'd go to jail for that. If you're firing a gun at someone doesn't it make a little bit of sense to actually look at what you're firing at? If you see no gun, shouldn't that make you hesitate a little?

 

[Eagles6]

I’m sure there’s a video or an app or something.:-0

[SgtHooper]

It’s difficult to say at the exact time of the collision, but at about the 21:00 mark, it clearly shows the light red for the vet’s direction of travel.

[SgtHooper]

“This may be pre-planned, premeditated murder.”

Or smart police tactics. Let’s not forget that one.

[SgtHooper]

What was most annoying in watching the video were the embellishments by the news people. I did not see what I would expect in a “high speed” chase. I saw possible speeding on the streets, maybe 50 in a 35, 45 in a 25, etc., kind of stuff. But there were moments of red-light running, near misses, enough to injure others to the extent he needed to be shutdown.

[null and void]

Yes. As I noted, at 20:55 you can see a green light in the vette’s direction of travel, I also note that you can see the signal turn yellow.

Guess what happens next?

See post #37, re-watch the video, and get back to us, m’kay?

[Venturer]

He got shutdown all right.

[SgtHooper]

The “trap” you are falling into with most of these bloggers is to bring in the crash victim(s). They do not want to consider this in the totality of the circumstances. They want to isolate everything from the final act of shooting the driver. So you will be forever facing that here, as occurred on other threads about this.

[SgtHooper]

You are correct.