[HIGHTECHDUDE]

A-hole decided he'd rather get a death certificate instead of a traffic ticket...

ARLINGTON, (February 8, 2024) — Sean Daniel McKay was pulled over by a motorcycle officer on Thursday, Feb. 8, because police say he was driving erratically across I-20 and had an illegal covering on his license plate.

Arlington PD says the 8-year department veteran, who has yet to be named, and a Lancaster PD officer both took part in the stop. Only McKay and a dog were in the vehicle at the time. The volatile back-and-forth escalated quickly.

The motorcycle officer pulled over McKay’s Cadillac after he drove across several lanes of traffic and stopped on the left shoulder. The officer approached him.

"Keep your hands on the steering wheel," the officer said in his bodycam video. "You don’t do that kind of bull crap with me!"

"Listen, I’m so sorry. I’m here to help her," McKay said.

"I don’t care! You don’t cut across the highway like that," the officer said.

"I apologize, sir. I apologize," McKay said.

Coincidentally, McKay was already planning to pull over to that spot to help a friend who was parked in a Mitsubishi with a flat tire. She watched it all play out.

The conversation between McKay and the officer continued while a second officer from the Kennedale Police Department, who was in the area, stopped to assist.

The officer can be heard in the video speaking a series of commands to McKay, and McKay disobeyed every one of them.

The officer attempted to pull McKay out of the Cadillac, but he refused.

"You got a gun in the car? Quit reaching around," the officer said.

Video shows McKay climbing over the passenger seat and grabbing a gun.

"Don’t do it!" McKay said.

"I’ll kill you! Put the gun down!" the officer told him.

"I know you will!" McKay said.

McKay did not point the gun, but he never dropped it. He slightly leaned forward while pointing his free hand at the officer, and the officer fired three shots.

Chief Jones acknowledged the weapon was not visibly pointed toward the officer before the officer fired. He says, at that point, there was not time for de-escalation tactics.

"When they saw that gun, that became a deadly force situation. There is really not that much room where they could have de-escalated or moved back," he said. "They were like three feet away from this guy. We don’t have to wait for someone to point a gun at us before we take action. By that time, it’s too late."

McKay was a convicted felon.

#OIS

[Roosta]

[Trucked up]

By the included pic he looks like someone of high intelligence.

[kellyhound]

McKay’s friend with a flat tire, Taylor Royster, witnessed the shooting and felt that the officer could have handled it differently.

“I’m just speechless,” she told.

Neither the two officers nor McKay’s dog, which was in the backseat of the Cadillac, were injured.

McKay was a 49-year-old with a prior conviction for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.


Cops don't wait around for someone with a rapsheet to point a gun at them at such close distance.

[Mr.NoCredit]

Deserved. Stupid fool..

[mothmon]

Just a garbage person dying a garbage death in a garbage world. Excellent non-compliance death tho

[kushie18]

motorcycle cops are the silliest of all cops ngl they look stupid too

[houseoftechno]

What a mouthy a-hole. I can only imagine the 1000s of people he made miserable before fate caught up with him.

I noticed his initial delay in answering the question, "Do you have a gun."