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5 observations:

1) The rush to judgement based on a single video is disgusting. While this doesn't look good at all, a video is not an objective documentary. There is no harm in waiting: waiting for all the information and evidence to come out, and waiting for the other side of the story. It does no harm at all to simply wait, and resist the temptation to rush to judgement.

2) The video shows no evidence of premeditation, or malice leading into the incidence. There is a huge difference between killing someone after planning to do so, and killing someone in the heat of the moment.

3) Rightly or wrongly, a non-police officer shooting someone after an altercation is generally not going to get the death penalty. Cops shouldn't be held to lower standards, of course; but they shouldn't be held to higher ones, either. It should be borne in mind that the only reason they are dealing with low-lifes, thugs, and criminals, is so the rest of us don't have to. He shouldn't be penalized more a non-police officer would be.

4) Throughout most of history, fleeing from the police has been a good way to get yourself killed. He may not have deserved death, but he was an idiot.

5) It doesn't look good for the cop at all. An example will be made of him, and it is an example that will probably lead to his death, either directly or indirectly. This will occur, regardless of any exculpatory or mitigating evidence. Disgustingly, this is because he is white, and the victim is not.

I will say, looking at the video, it doesn’t look good. I have a serious problem (I think I saw it right), but wasn’t the 2nd cop there when the taser was throw down near the victim. I want to see the police reports from the 2nd officer and see him too charged and fired.

But having said the above, I live in Texas and I do believe the “castle law” gives you the right to shoot a person who takes something from your person, car and home. I think Joe Horn shot those 2 guys in the back (I could be wrong) put he got “no billed.”

Oh my God that would drive the black community over the top, especially with that video.

The rush to judgement based on a single video is disgusting.

I might agree with you but for the reality that as the cop was finishing emptying his clip into the guy, the soon to be dead guy was, what, 15-20 years away with his back turned to the cop.

The video shows no evidence of premeditation

Agreed.

Rightly or wrongly, a non-police officer shooting someone after an altercation is generally not going to get the death penalty. Cops shouldn't be held to lower standards, of course; but they shouldn't be held to higher ones, either.

Agree that the cop will not get the death penalty. Quite disagree with the notion that a sworn officer of the law should not be held to a higher standard. I don't think we should hold them to the same standard as a murderer in the drug trade. JMO.

Throughout most of history, fleeing from the police has been a good way to get yourself killed. He may not have deserved death, but he was an idiot.

Thanks for your opinion.

It doesn't look good for the cop at all

Choices are a bitch, aren't they?

He shouldn't be penalized more a non-police officer would be.

Are you sure about that? A trained professional police officer shouldn't be held to a higher standard than Joe Blow?

I'm not trying to be snide, I'm sincerely asking the question. Seems to me police should be held to a higher standard because of the immense authority and power we grant them.

But I'm interested in an explanation of why they shouldn't be.