I simply cannot believe you are defending that absolute piece of shit cop. Have you even watched the video? What is wrong with you!?!
No, what is wrong with you?!
I watched the terrible video and read up on the facts of the case.
Another officer told Shaver that if he made a false move, they’d shoot him.
Shaver had a blood alcohol level over 3 times the legal driving limit.
He pointed what others would take to be a gun with a scope out a hotel window. A couple called the police.
The officers didn’t have the benefit of hindsight.
Do you admit that Shaver’s own recklessness in large part brought what happened to him on himself?
An update on a lawsuit over the man’s death:
https://www.courthousenews.com/arizona-officers-dodge-wrongful-death-suit-over-fatal-hotel-shooting/
This contains audio of the 911 call of hotel staff reporting that someone was pointing a rifle out a window, and people were scared.
And this from the Heavy article:
“The woman told police Shaver and the other man were pointing the rifle outside the hotel window before police arrived, and she told them to stop because they were drunk.”
The woman was in the room with them, and became concerned that the two men were pointing a rifle outside the while while drunk.
What’s really morally inexcusable is how so many people have described Shaver’s death as an execution, as if he hadn’t created the situation. In a climate where mass murders with guns take place pretty regularly, pointing a rifle outside your hotel room could indeed get you killed by police. They didn’t come in firing at them, but it’s a dangerous situation still once police arrived.
I just recently witnessed the aftermath of an escooter accident. A heard a crash and saw a young man lying the street unconscious. I called 911 while others stayed with him. Later the police called me and tried to see if I’d see anything of the accident, especially if a car had been involved. I’d never considered that, and reported the accident as a man falling off the scooter, but when asked that question, I realized that I was so focused on the young man lying in the street unconscious that of course I could have missed cars that were pulling away just at that time, as the accident happened right near the entrance to a bridge. There easily could have been cars, and one could have cut him off or bumped him. But I simply don’t know, and never thought of it until questioned by police. In the moment, it can be hard to interpret small things completely accurately, and in very dangerous situations, a little misinterpretation or not having some answers can make all the difference.