Mjl wrote: ↑Sat Jun 13, 2020 8:39 pm
He tried to tase a cop.
Is the presumption that the cops wouldn't have shot him if he was white?
Trying to tase a cop is inexcusable...but to become a cop you get tased to know what it is like, so he knew he would survive if in the unlikely event he deployed the taser and actually got the prongs (or whatever they're called) to hit the cop .....the cop could have retreated. Not every arrest that is resisted needs to escalate to the point of death by being shot. He could have stopped chasing so that he didn't get tased and then reassessed the situation. It was a non violent crime originally. He shot him in the back. He knew it was a taser. Cops need to stop shooting people who don't absolutely deserve to be shot. They should deescalate until its absolutely necessary to use deadly force. There was no need to use deadly force against a drunk guy.
If someone tried to tase me, but didn't, and was running away, and I shot them in the back, I would be in big trouble most likely. The laws on shooting people shouldn't be that much different for police imo.
And I'm far from anti cop. I've got multiple family members in various forms of law enforcement.
