IIRC, this was the female officer who shot the black suspect who was going back to his car. Video was captured from a helo. Here partner was holding a taser, so they used her use of a firearm against her.
Wasn’t it only recently that we saw a suspect run around the car and retrieve a firearm and shoot at the officers?
You don’t get to go back to your car to get something. Ever.
“Wasn’t it only recently that we saw a suspect run around the car and retrieve a firearm and shoot at the officers?”
Yes, in Pennsylvania. https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Dashcam-Video-Shows-Near-Fatal-Shooting-of-Pennsylvania-State-Troopers-490496461.html
Both officers fired at the same time, so the perp must have done something to invoke such a response.
When you look at video from the incident... the obvious reason the idiot left his vehicle parked in the middle of a two lane highway was because he was drunk or on drugs. And of course it turns out that toxicology reports show that poor Terence was stoned on PCP and TCP, “angel dust” which causes all sorts of bizarre and dangerous behaviors. But his family says that Terence was in the process of turning his life around.
I once was on a call with a young lady who someone drugged hoping to get into her pants. She went bat-sh!t crazy instead; it took six of us to hold her down so she wouldn’t hurt herself or someone else. My crew and I had to go in the back of the ambulance with her to the hospital. At approximately 110 pounds Terence out weighed her by about 3 times.
In 25 years working on the street responding to calls with the police I saw them do stupid things many times. I am not convinced that this was necessarily one of those times, especially since a jury who examined the evidence found her innocent despite tremendous pressure to convict.