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09-26-2014, 04:29 PM
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Re: Three Different Angles- the Camera
Dean...you've done it again. Outstanding video that I'll be showing in my classes. This happened before I retired and I've seen the video evidence before...but I forgot all about this case. Thank you...great post. Of course it'll do nothing to quell some of the rabid anti-police/conspiracy types that dwell here on DR. They'll just bitch about the bad guy getting shot in the back, or that he only had a cell phone, or that he was Black, or that he was an honor student or choir boy, etc. But this video goes a long way in showing folks how difficult dissecting use of force incidents are, even with quality video. Nothing is really what it appears to be at first glance. |
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09-26-2014, 06:33 PM
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Re: Three Different Angles- the Camera
Nice vid. Shit, that was extremely difficult to see what he was holding AND pointing at the cops. But when you turn around and point it AGAIN at the officers, man that would be tough, with adrenaline flowing, to calmly discern that.
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09-26-2014, 08:22 PM
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Re: Three Different Angles- the Camera
Outstanding...that's what I wish everyone would do...take a moment and honestly think about how difficult that decision to shot can be and how much might rest on your decision. Shooting someone, even when it's a clear cut case, is very difficult. No cop anywhere in the US or Canada would just willie nillie go around shooting taxpayers without a fairly good reason. If all these police haters could just calm down and critically think about each case, they'd see what really goes on. If you give the coppers the slightest benefit of doubt and really look at the evidence unemotionally, in just about every deadly force case, it's going to be justified...maybe not within that agency's policy, but it'll be legal.
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