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Originally Posted by Templar
It's not a good find IMO... How does that apply here? The assailant was still advancing on the officers, injured or not. Failure to comply with a lawful order aside, advancing on them still was still a display of a possible threat. Now if the video had captured him screaming "please help me, help me" as he was crawling, then maybe this would apply.
On a side note, I really like how people who have never been put in a life-threatening situation in their entire lives pretend like they know exactly how they would act... You have no idea how your emotions will wind up controlling your actions instead of your logic, no idea at all...
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Which is why I'm not a cop, and he is. While he may have been advancing, that is not at all procedure to shoot someone crawling towards you. Officer was told to hold fire, please address this side of the argument. Officer is also hiding behind "unintentional blindness", an excuse that if accepted through courts would give police authority an exploitation to shoot first and ask later.
As for other posts saying whether or not the cop struck with the chain had been killed or not, that question isn't even worth discussing. Because that did not happen and that scenario has no influence in what situation the cops were put Iinfront of: an injured man shot 6 times, disarmed by an officer, crawling in hands and knees and then executed with a head shot. If we allow the station where the cop DID feel threatened to the point where he felt his life was immediately on the line against a cripple, THEN WHY SHOOT THE HEAD?
FFS I really hope you guys understand the gravity of the situation. I have previously disclosed I'm not a cop hater and that I have, on several occasions, even helped the police force with leads and reports, however this behavior is intolerable. As a tax payer, I'm not complying with paying this cop's salary. Not sure why you guys are.