If the cop had reason to think the guy was dangerous, the first volley was a by-the-book discharge. You just can't tell, maybe it looked like the suspect was reaching for his own gun or something like that. The video is too low quality, too far away, and at a bad angle (the guy is mostly obscured when he's shot so you can't really see what he's doing directly prior).

If there was no supervisor and the guy is looking like he will come at the cops or shoot them, the first volley is by-the-book. Because would you rather have the cop try to disarm the guy hand to hand and risk having to tell his family their dad is dead because he totally thought he could take the kid with the knife

If after the first volley the guy looked like he was still reaching for his own gun, the second volley is fine..


I said "if" a lot because again you cannot tell from the information currently available. You should not default to "obvious excessive force" when you don't have the facts.

This post was edited by dxlightning on Aug 3 2013 05:20am

the "it could happen to you" argument is hilarious

who calls cops pussies and cusses at them and ignores order to drop your knife?

1 less retard out of 7 billion humans on 1 planet out of 8 planets in one star system out of 100 billion star systems.

igaf...

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now if it was someone i know or was related to, i'd be very mad at both the way it was handled but more importantly that the victim didn't comply putting himself in a terrible situation.
i wouldnt forgive both the cop and the victim.

Don't do stupid shit or you can get killed. He didn't deserve to die, not even close. But you have to be smart to live in this world

People watch too much movies, these cops aren't jackie chan or jet li. They can't kung fu the knife out of his hands

This post was edited by h4bs on Aug 3 2013 08:26am

You mean the average beat cop isn't an emotionally dead fighting machine who is trained in Krav M'Ga (sp?) with no regard for his or her life?

The dream is shattered T.T

I'm sorry

dx going hard in this thread

yeah jeez guys hes not robocop

The bus was completely empty... He had no hostages, that is one detail which is fact about that entire thing

This post was edited by Meatstick on Aug 3 2013 08:56am

either way
if he woulda just put the knife down everything would have been over he wouldnt have gotten shot
guys an idiot and i dont see the big deal in him being shot.. he had a knife on a public vehicle its not like he had a shoe in his hand

This post was edited by dragoneth on Aug 3 2013 08:59am