The report is pretty comprehensive.
I don’t see how anyone can blame the officer at all.
The criticism is that the cops didn’t give the kid a chance to try and obey a lawfully given order. The cops gave the order and basically started unloading their weapons within a couple of seconds after the order. I’ve been yelled at by cops and I can tell you that it can take a second or two to process what you are being told to do, especially if you didn’t see the cops beforehand.
If the kid had raised the gun, apparently with the intent to fire, I wouldn’t be criticizing the cops. However, the kid knew he only had a pellet gun so it’s unlikely that he would have done that.
There was a time when officers put the safety of the public before their own. It was considered part of the job.
Not anymore.
Consider what would happen to you if you were the one who killed this kid because you thought he “had a gun”?
Why are you held to a higher standard than the police?
I bet you believe all those reports that the Obama administration puts out about how they investigate themselves and find nothing wrong,too.
The report is pretty comprehensive.
I don’t see how anyone can blame the officer at all.
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I have no firsthand knowledge of this case , but I know cops and bureaucracies , OF COURSE the report created by the cops covers all the legal bases needed to get the cops off the hook , that is the purpose of the report.
I don’t see how they could not.
“I don’t see how anyone can blame the officer at all.”
Of course you don’t. You probably also didnt see how anyone could blame the cops for shooting a couple of white women in a pickup truck of the wrong make, model and color when they were looking for a black male. They were also found to have acted correctly because they were scared.
A competent cop takes into account the demeanor of a person before shooting them. Is he angry, does he appear menacing, agitated, or just turning around to see who is talking to them? Was he in a position to fire the weapon or just holding it? By your account if someone buys a rifle from a neighbor and is walking back to his house and the cops pull up behind him he could be shot just for turning around.