[Caduceus]

Life is simple. Don't do stupid shit. Don't commit crimes. Don't run around with guns and you won't get shot by the police. And if they tell you to do something, do it.

[Lugia]

Originally Posted by Oonie ↗

I'm usually Team Blue, but this guy was on the verge of giving up. He wasn't even holding it in his arm in shooting position. Sometimes, cops panic. You can hear the stress in all of the cops' voices, so it was pretty much a given that the gunman was gonna die.

I'm the same. Some of the anti-cop comments people make are stupid (just shoot him in the legs, why not taze him?) but even though he was holding the gun, he was clearly giving up. He didn't raise the weapon to warrant being shot. I'm not too keen on this one. But no doubt it'll go nowhere.

[William May]

I can tell you that if I was on a jury, I would NEVER convict a cop who had faced a person with a weapon. When the cops show up, you either surrender or you die. No loss either way. No sympathy on my part if you don't drop the weapon and give up. That asshole is smarter now.

[ride]

Chandler?!? Nothing bad ever happens in Chandler...

This all happened the day before Thanksgiving last year. Maybe he wasn't looking forward to all the relatives coming over.

[upinthemountains]

Originally Posted by TenochtitlanPrincess ↗

i wish officers didn't cuss all the time, i will keep my kids away from those desensitized cretins

Welcome. You might be too sensitive for this website.

[upinthemountains]

To answer your question. Yes. He was armed and in the process of actively commuting a felony.

He was a threat.

Originally Posted by Lugia ↗

Just before noon on Nov. 23, police responded to a home on East Folley Place near Gilbert and Frye roads after reports of a possible break-in. A resident who wasn’t home at the time called 911 after his surveillance cameras alerted him to motion, showing an unknown car backed into his driveway and a man inside the house.

Officers arrived and heard noises coming from the garage, with the suspect then running through the house and out the back door. Officers surrounded the man and ordered him to drop the gun he was carrying.

"Drop it or I will put holes in you."

"I know you will."

*proceeds to put holes in him*

In the video we see an officer over the wall of the rear of the property fire two shots which appear to stun the suspect, before another officer dumps a mag into him.

Now, the big question. The guy was armed and refused to drop the weapon, but was there an immediate threat in the moment that the officer fired the shots that killed him?

[yuiibo]

Counter strike in real life

[rhubarb_king]

Light him up boys

[novirtue]

I get that police are under crazy stress when in these situations, but calling someone a fucker or saying “ill put holes in you” seems like poor policing.

[Guns N' Coffee]

Justified shooting, he already knew law enforcement was on the scene when he was in the garage and had plenty of time to drop the weapon and yet after many commands just kept holding on to it.