Posted on 07/06/2016 3:31:12 PM PDT by Trump20162020
I just ran across this judge’s two videos. The first one is actually below the one you will see first. God bless this woman. She has most likely turned many a wayward teen toward something better:
http://www.11alive.com/news/bibb-judge-surprised-video-of-her-went-viral/119964147
That's murder. Police apologists can spin it any way they want. I saw what I saw. Guy gets pinned to the ground, and a cop casually draws his weapon and shots him in the chest.
Not justifiable. I don't care what color anyone is. The cops f---ed up.
A totally uncalled for escalation. That's all cops do nowadays: look for an excuse to escalate things, and then try to justify their use of deadly force based on the escalation.
What was this guy's crime again?
Maybe when some law abiding concealed carriers get shot the same way, and they will, then People will understand that there's a problem here.
This shooting was not justified. The guy was not any kind of lethal threat.
Cop just pulls out his gun and kills the guy while he's pinned to the ground without the use of his arms.
We don't need cops who just kill people when things get a little squirrelly.
No way, no how is this proper procedure in the United States of America. It looks like the kind of thing that would happen in a police state.
There's just no proportionality anymore. It's all about escalation, and then blaming everyone but the cop once their escalation reaches its logical conclusion.
That’s not what you see or hear on the video. What you hear is that one officer says the man has a gun. Then you see one of the officers draw his weapon and aim it at the man’s chest and he fires.
Afterwards a witness reported one of the officers took the gun out of the dead man’s pants.
With that much established it will be an interesting investigation.
I saw the video. I think the perp was trying to reach for his gun but with both holding him, it looked like an execution. I rhink here there was a lapse of judgment.
It looked like the officers were content to hold him down until they saw something on the man’s right hand side... Then the officers responded abruptly.
I would surmise these officers were going to pat him down, he resisted that, it turned into an arrest situation, he resisted that as well.
They got him down on the ground to get him into position for non-compliant handcuffing. He resisted that. The officer straddling him felt the weapon and/or Sterling was reaching for the pocket the weapon was suspected to be in, an overt action that demanded an overt response.
Those officers gave him an opportunity to save his own life. He chose not to. Adult decisions have adult consequences.
With this new video, it can’t be said they planted the gun, or didn’t have cameras on, both of which can be seen dangling off of them.
Good shoot. CVS pays the tab.
I've watched the video at least 5 times. You say the guy reached for his gun, with both arms pinned? I don't see that, and neither will any jury.
Possibly, but with just two police officers and a man fighting them, all it would take would be for him to get an arm free for a split second while an officer changes positions to try to cuff him or tase him, for example, and he could potentially grab either his own gun or one of theirs and shoot one or both of them, or land a good punch. Two officers should be able to subdue one man resisting arrest, but not necessarily. At this point not enough seems to be known about what happened.
Good points and for me, I saw an officer clearly distressed after the shot that took the man’s life. You can hear it in his reaction.
There is no winning with this BLM movement, they are rabid and determined. I am so angry that white cops deal with this crap ALL DAY LONG.
You may be right. It was hard for me to see what his arms were doing. The bottom line is that the officer seemed to use deadly force unnecessarily.
Can’t see his other arm, but it looks like he either tried grabbing the cop’s gun or he shot first from what little you can see. Hard to tell...
“U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is leading an investigation into what happened” and after what we have seen and heard from the US Justice department in the last week would any “reasonable” person believe anything they say?
Using your logic, any cop shooting any CCW licensee would be a "good shoot".
Gee, I wonder what city will burn this time around?
I'm sorry to say that, if this guy were white, and the police officers were black, the same crowd that says this shooting is justified would instead be screaming to high heaven.
Double standards are no good for anyone. This was an execution, IMHO, plain and simple.
Maybe a jury will think otherwise, however. But a video is powerful evidence, and most reasonable people, black, white, or purple, will make the same observations I've made, IMHO.
Justified or not, the optics are this are bad, IMHO.
A lot of it might have to do with the genesis of the call in the first place, but everybody knows how this is going to play with the minority population, and, given the actual history, the results won't be good for either side.
This guy was not a law abiding citizen. A convicted felon, child molester. There is evidence that he pointed a gun at someone and the police were called to investigate. They were legally and lawfully present, he was not and when it was evident that they intended to discover if he was armed, he fought and died for it.
Don’t be mistaken, this guy did not die for gun rights, or against tyranny. He died as he lived, a criminal, fighting the police.
All of the things he did fly in the face of what responsible gun owners stand for.
Executions happen when you are completely helpless and unable to resist. He resisted,and in such a way that made the officers believe their lives were in danger. It’s a shame that he put himself and them in that situation.
I have yet to see a video where a white guy fought black officers and they had to kill him...maybe its out there.
I watched the video also. It is horrible. Something I noticed and wonder about is what was going on with the officer on top of Sterling. The view of him is mostly blocked by the officer who ended up shooting, but just after he says that Sterling has a gun, it appears like that officer is possibly struggling with Sterling. You can see his arms moving around, so it doesn’t seem he has Sterling under control and pinned at that moment, and possibly from what it looks like, he and Sterling were wrestling at that moment.
And we should note, too, that after the officer who shot reports that shots were fired, he does exclaim the “f” word. At this point it doesn’t seem like something he wanted to do and thought nothing of.
Have to wait for Paul Ryan’s take on this.
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They did some serious editing of that video. Something happens between the time the cop’s on top of him and then on the ground shooting him. Probably the guy had a surge of energy and threw the cop off... maybe went for his gun... who knows.
There was a few moments betweem the time he took out his gun and he fired. It seems to me he could have easily used that free arm to keep him pinned to get cuffs on or get backup.
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