Posted on 07/29/2015 9:26:25 AM PDT by barmag25
If the poster I was responding to wasn't justifying the shooting, he came pretty darn close....
I could care less if the victim was black, white, hispanic, asian, whatever. His race has nothing to do with the officer’s unjustified, criminal shooting.
I don’t see anyone actually justifying the shooting...
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Hi there. I’m Responsibility2nd. And I think it was a justified shooting. So do many others. Scroll up.
Watch the pedestrian walk down the hill on the sidewalk passing the traffic stop. When the officer put a bullet through the drivers head, the vehicle rolled down the road uncontrolled, right where the pedestrian was walking. This could have ended much worse. This is a university, lots of walkers on foot.
They not only shot this guy to death for no reason, they then lied about it in an effort to coverup what actually occurred.
I agree with your statement.
If the driver had not been so coy and evasive, mumbling nonsense while ignoring repeat commands to show his DL and trying to start the car, he wouldn’t have had the cop on full alert with his gun apparently drawn.
As to what the cop was supposed to do, I wound say perhaps shoot out a tire?
It’s being reported they have another video. Likely from his partners body cam.
You have to remember, both cops lied on their reports, to create a legitimate motive for the shoot. Anything further from them can and will be totally impeached.
For what it's worth (and I don't think it is really relevant to the ultimate issue of whether the shooting was justified), after another look at the video, you are 100% correct that the bottle had been opened. But the reason is even more simple than a gap between the cap and the seal. Here is a screenshot of the bottle:
And here is picture of a bottle of Barton Gin:
Notice anything?
Whatever was in that bottle, it wasn't gin (well, at least it wasn't Barton Gin).
More realistic to just get rid of all those silly minor traffic laws altogether. The only people you'll apprehend are the fools dumb enough to obey them.
Right, right. As you noted earlier in the thread, you think it was a justified shooting because.....he put the car into gear. OK.
It might have been urine.
So is your contention that the officer is being charged for no reason?
I heard the same argument concerning Michael Slager from a few freepers too....didnt make them right.
Pay the rioters $5000 each!
Anyone thinking this is simply wrong. In addition if it were a legitimate/justified shoot there would be no reason for the officers to falsify their reports/statements.
“Whatever was in that bottle, it wasn’t gin (well, at least it wasn’t Barton Gin). “
Yes, my coworkers were commenting on that being the first bottle of yellow gin they’d ever seen.
My call on this one: Driver starts car, puts car in gear. Cop reaches in to stop him. Driver maybe grabs cop’s hand/arm (hard to see for the convenient blur). Cop anticipates going for a 60mph drag and shoots.
I might be mistaken in my interpretation but I could see that going through a person’s mind in the split second one has to think about it.
No, there are many reasons why a report may contain a falsehood. It could be a deliberate mistruth or a sincerely held misconception. The motivation could be to get away with a crime or simply make the truth easier on the deceased's family. Although as I explained earlier, I don't think there is sufficient evidence to conclude that Officer Tensing misrepresented anything in his report.
In a city controlled predominately by Democrats and liberals, everyone you mentioned is likely more motivated by their own selfish political interests and the satisfaction of certain demographic electorates than in finding a fair and just resolution. The truth in a matter like this can only come out in fair and open trial.
Falsifying their own reports is now the least of their worries/charges.
That remains to be seen as well as whether there was actually any falsification at all.
Trust me here.
No one reading this thread has any reason to trust you based on what you have written here so far. Your rush to judgement and group-think mentality is bordering on libel. The real truth will eventually come out and it will almost certainly be far more than what is depicted in a short, jumbled, one-angle video. The interests of justice, order, and civil peace would all be better served if people waited for the judicial process to proceed rather than to spout off with a near endless stream of rash and presumptive conclusions.
Absolutly correct. Now this thug, who had determined that traffic offences deserve a shot in the head, chose the wrong summer to pop a mere civilian.
The sweet part is that the thugs aren't aware they are thugs, and have gotten away with being JBTs their whole life, since they were stealing lunch money in 3rd grade.
Now, with body cams, they are going to be all hurt and long faced about how everyone is picking on them, and no one understands that the Badge has been a license to kill for years. It's not fair! He's been doing BS reports, like he was taught by his superiors, since his first day. Why are they suddenly checking them for verity? It's got to be some liberal black thing.
Hot flash: There are hundreds of thousands of peaceful, conservative Old white Guys that still remember getting a BS traffic ticket from some leather gloved 'roided badge heavy Farkwad. And coughing up $150 bucks for a burned out license plate light. Does anyone really think we give a rat's ass if you go home at the end of shift? We check the papers, with hope, to see if you got a load of #4s in the forehead, when you stopped a van with Saltillo plates doing 56 in a 55.
Wake up, all you JBTs. Nobody loves you. No one even respects you. Keep strolling around with a SWAT tag on your black body armor, with bloused boots, skin head, wrist length black gloves.
We've noticed that no-knock, flashbang, machine pistol drug raids where the dog and kids get shot have dropped off, big time.
I wonder why?
What specific conclusion or judgement rush are you referring to?
They have the videos, they have the cops verbal statements and they have the cops signed reports. What rush to judgement?
Are there unknown facts or witnesses?
Will the officers not support or standby their own statements and reports which were completed after the event?
What rush to judgement?
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