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Watch the first 30 seconds of this clip
https://abc30.com/videoClip/18864625/
The mans body language, choice of words, and decision on what was appropriate are absolutely chilling.
I dont agree with anyone shooting anyone else, ever. But I totally disagree that cops should decide to be judge, jury, and executioner while in a state of panic.
EX500rider
(12,620 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 10, 2026, 02:12 PM - Edit history (1)
And any return rounds the police fire that miss him could also kill an innocent civilian, running him over was probably safer.
Redleg
(6,947 posts)unlike the many sham investigations that follow a killing by the police. It may very well be the case that the officers took the least harmful approach but I am not going to take the officers' word on it.
EX500rider
(12,620 posts)He killed a deputy trying to serve a eviction notice, barricaded himself in the house and kept shooting out at the police even after tear gas was deployed, escaped the house and was running through backyards while still returning fire.
Not sure what else have investigation would find.
riversedge
(80,960 posts)And some wonder why cops have a bad reputation--or that some can not be trusted to keep ALL safe.
EX500rider
(12,620 posts)But he's shooting at police after killing one and they run him over that's not okay? Don't see the difference other than that safer for the neighborhood not to be shooting around houses with people in them
CozyMystery
(736 posts)"I dont agree with anyone shooting anyone else, ever."
Then I listened to the entire clip and discovered that I could understand how and why things went down as they did.
taxi
(2,727 posts)there really isn't much that can be politely said.
usonian
(25,630 posts)Do ya remember Oswald and Ruby? That "street justice" destroyed fact-finding and accountability,
Roman gladiators threw a net to immobilize.
While there are legitimate self-defense arguments to be made, way too often someone in combat armor kills someone holding a sandwich. or a bag of chips. I grew up reading "Fearless Fosdick" comics and the facts today make him look like a "parking enforcement officer".

The only cop who ever sent a chair to the chair.

When police are militarized, the rules of war, not "justice" prevail.