There’s a guy right in front of the vehicle in this still image, who is the one who fired the shots. The vehicle started driving towards him, but I don’t think he saw that the wheels were turned in order to drive off towards the right?
Edit: alright, no need to pummel the down votes lol, I understand better now. I’d only seen the video itself with no more info than that. 😄
She’s not driving very fast. He positioned himself in front of her car.
She waved them past first seemingly to let them through, they then seemed agitated she didn’t leave and jumped out aggressively. When confronted with violently acting individuals she rightfully attempted to leave the situation.
She turns to not hit the car she would otherwise have drove straight into and then immediately cuts the wheel.
The shooter can make an easy argument that he had no idea she was going to turn vs run him over HOWEVER he didn’t need to position himself in front of her car in the manner he did.
His previous incidence of having been dragged by a car will likely be used to defend him, but to me it shows a repeated lack of judgement by the officer. He put himself in a similarly risky situation and because of his previous trauma he acted wrong.
She didn’t need to be shot, she didn’t need to be shot 3 times and she didn’t need to be shot in the face.
He murdered her in a situation of his own creation.
I’m of the opinion that it is formal or informal practice to deliberately position themselves in front of and behind the vehicle, so that if the vehicle moves at all they can claim self defense and start blasting.
Cops never fire just once. The theory being; A) if you need to fire, it’s because you are in life threatening danger and, B) you can’t fire once and wait to see if you hit and disabled your target because you are in immediate danger or you wouldn’t be shooting. So they fire multiple times to increase their odds of hitting and disabling or killing their target. A cop just being afraid justifies all their actions in response to the source of that fear.
It’s bullshit, of course, but the courts have swallowed this argument many times. A cop thought he was in danger so he emptied his magazine at a target that scared him. If the lawyers convince the judge the cop believed he had a reason to be afraid, it doesn’t matter how much lead he slung nor who was hurt or killed by it.
But that’s a really stupid thing, since a dead body actually is likely to make the car go even harder and faster. This one for example the car doesn’t stop, but rapidly accelerates and hits a car after death.
Law enforcement is trained not to fire into moving cars, because that replaces an in control vehicle with an out of control vehicle.
They’re not actually concerned about the safety of the public or even themselves (the danger is quite minimal), they just want to kill “radical leftists” who think they can interfere in police business.
There’s also another video with an angle showing that he walked in front of the vehicle after she had started to back up and change direction. He had no situational awareness and acted like a scared little bitch when he noticed it moving.
I’m not denying your claim, just saying that he was not in front of the car when she started backing up to move and he walked in front of a moving vehicle. People in the grocery store parking lot have more situational awareness to moving vehicles than this guy.
I’m mostly just venting because I’ve heard this like twelve times in the past couple days.
Coincidentally, they just released the video he was recording right before he shot her. Literally walking around the car like a fucking idiot with his phone out. You can even see when he puts his phone down to pull out his gun instead of, you know, taking two steps to his right.
There’s a guy right in front of the vehicle in this still image, who is the one who fired the shots. The vehicle started driving towards him, but I don’t think he saw that the wheels were turned in order to drive off towards the right?
Edit: alright, no need to pummel the down votes lol, I understand better now. I’d only seen the video itself with no more info than that. 😄
She’s not driving very fast. He positioned himself in front of her car.
She waved them past first seemingly to let them through, they then seemed agitated she didn’t leave and jumped out aggressively. When confronted with violently acting individuals she rightfully attempted to leave the situation.
She turns to not hit the car she would otherwise have drove straight into and then immediately cuts the wheel.
The shooter can make an easy argument that he had no idea she was going to turn vs run him over HOWEVER he didn’t need to position himself in front of her car in the manner he did.
His previous incidence of having been dragged by a car will likely be used to defend him, but to me it shows a repeated lack of judgement by the officer. He put himself in a similarly risky situation and because of his previous trauma he acted wrong.
She didn’t need to be shot, she didn’t need to be shot 3 times and she didn’t need to be shot in the face.
He murdered her in a situation of his own creation.
Absolutely agree. 👍
I’m of the opinion that it is formal or informal practice to deliberately position themselves in front of and behind the vehicle, so that if the vehicle moves at all they can claim self defense and start blasting.
They can try the self defense lie for shot #1. The other shots can’t be.
Cops never fire just once. The theory being; A) if you need to fire, it’s because you are in life threatening danger and, B) you can’t fire once and wait to see if you hit and disabled your target because you are in immediate danger or you wouldn’t be shooting. So they fire multiple times to increase their odds of hitting and disabling or killing their target. A cop just being afraid justifies all their actions in response to the source of that fear.
It’s bullshit, of course, but the courts have swallowed this argument many times. A cop thought he was in danger so he emptied his magazine at a target that scared him. If the lawyers convince the judge the cop believed he had a reason to be afraid, it doesn’t matter how much lead he slung nor who was hurt or killed by it.
But that’s a really stupid thing, since a dead body actually is likely to make the car go even harder and faster. This one for example the car doesn’t stop, but rapidly accelerates and hits a car after death.
Law enforcement is trained not to fire into moving cars, because that replaces an in control vehicle with an out of control vehicle.
They’re not actually concerned about the safety of the public or even themselves (the danger is quite minimal), they just want to kill “radical leftists” who think they can interfere in police business.
Oh wow, that’s a scummy tactic.
There’s also another video with an angle showing that he walked in front of the vehicle after she had started to back up and change direction. He had no situational awareness and acted like a scared little bitch when he noticed it moving.
I’m not denying your claim, just saying that he was not in front of the car when she started backing up to move and he walked in front of a moving vehicle. People in the grocery store parking lot have more situational awareness to moving vehicles than this guy.
I’m mostly just venting because I’ve heard this like twelve times in the past couple days.
Ah yeah, great explanation, thank you. I’ve not seen much else than the video itself, so this helped.
😂
Can you link that angle?
I’ve only seen the two there are from the rear.
Coincidentally, they just released the video he was recording right before he shot her. Literally walking around the car like a fucking idiot with his phone out. You can even see when he puts his phone down to pull out his gun instead of, you know, taking two steps to his right.
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3mbz3va3en22e