the perp was 10 ft from the police with a knife and spun around at that time he was shot 16 times you can see the shots hitting the pavement when the kid is on the ground ive been here a long time but i cant believe people can honestly excuse this
Absolutely.. as an expert on law enforcement shootings you should probably join the police or rewrite their use of force manuals.
Way fewer than used to. I can remember when these out of control cops stories first starting hitting the wires. We who protested, tried to look at each incident with a neutral eye, were in the minority. Reflexive defense of the cops was the norm.
I don’t excuse this. The first two shots were not necessary but the cop would have gotten away with that much for sure. The fourteen coup de grace shots were first degree murder, pure and simple.
That little hesitation between the first two shots and the remaining shots? Yeah, that’s the moment where the cop decided to kill the suspect.
Now what makes me more angry is that the CPD and Mayor Rahm Emanuel spent over a year trying to destroy and suppress evidence to cover up a murder and they’re not being held accountable for their crimes.
If that Mayor was a Republican then Obama would be on this like black on coal. But the mayor is Obama’s bath house buddy so we won’t hear anything from the White Hut.