Unarmed man killed by police who fired 20 rounds at him

I know there are certain things the police need to do (like go after suspects who seem to be breaking into people's houses) but, do we really want to be passing more laws?

Every additional law is creating a potential for something like this to happen.

Law enforcement basically = sending people with guns to go after someone and confine them against their will

If Liberals really don't like this, why are they passing so many laws? Police, like any other human beings, are not perfect. It's not realistic to demand or expect perfection 100% of the time.

 

He didn't resist. They never touched him.
He ran. You are saying that is worthy of killing him. It isn't.
Don't follow commands? That, in and of itself is not enough to kill a suspect.
Advancing on a police officer? The body cam footage doesn't show that in this case (maybe it happened, but the footage didn't show it). And that alone is not enough to kill someone.

Your attitude that petty criminals deserve to be killed is, frankly, disgusting.

 

“Kid”?? Seriously?

 

Running is resisting arrest.

Yes advancing on an officer is a threat to their life. Inside of 20 feet or so you're in stab range.

You have the benefit of looking at this after it happened. Go join the force and then tell us how you feel about it after a couple weeks dealing with the dregs of society.

 

When the police come you lie on the ground and beg for mercy.

 

how do they know he’s a petty criminal?

Its dark

The guy could have a gun so that makes him a lethal threat in the cops mind

The best thing anyone cam do in that situation is to freeze and very slowly obey the cops onstructions down to the smallest detail

 

Almost pitch black, several time committed felon, running from the cops, something in his hand.

Dunno, we will see how this goes, but you can tell from the body cam that the cops were scared as heck.

It is instances like these though where you can truly see the partisan divide of people who immediately jump to defend the cops vs those who immediately jump to defend the criminals.

And yes, this guy was a criminal.

Did he deserve to get shot? Dunno, we will see as more evidence comes out. But if it is my father out there on patrol in the pitch black and a guy has something in his hand and start coming towards him, I would hope my dad would shoot first and be able to come home alive every time.

Be interesting to see where this goes as mroe comes out. I am curious as to what his previous felonies were

 

The best thing he could have done was not run in the first place and allowed himself to be arrested.

Had he done so, he'd still be alive.

 

Unless you want to commit suicide by cop

Then you mimick the dead guy in this story

 

You walk around in america, you're guilty, all up to the scaredy cat cop.

 

Perhaps. Perhaps not. As current events attest to.

 

I dunno either

But if someone gets really drunk and decides to sleep it off on the railroad tracks does he “deserve” to die?

Probably not

But the train will run over him just the same

 

I guess I have led a sheltered life

I never tried to shoot a cop and they never shot me either

 

As long as it's only other citizens.

 

Some snowflakes lack the nads to live in an open free society preferring instead the authoritarianism of the corporate state.

 

If this cat burgler is representative of the “other” citizens I wont lose any sleep over them

Criminals bring this on themselves

 

Your criminals are celebrated and bequeathed positions in your political and economic system. Your poor are criminalized.

 

That call to mute is not a good thing. Even if they were not trying to hide anything they sure as hell did give the impression that they are.

 

Thanks for proving you have no clue what due process is (even when a definition was provided to you). The "chronology" of an "arrest process" is not due process, it's just a chronology of an arrest process. Furthermore, none of that took place when the cops murdered an unarmed man, not due process and certainly not an arrest process.

 

It's ok, I'm sure they were "afraid for their lives".

 

Nothing to see here, just Sacramento's finest protecting and serving

 

Yeah well, americans no longer have a guarantee of Habeas Corpus, so there!

 

Well they do by the Constitution but apparently not by the US government. So Bush was right, it is just a gdm piece of paper.

 

Yes the chronology of being arrested is due process.

You clearly don't even know what "due process" is.

Here, let's look at a definition:

due proc·ess
d(y)o͞o prəˈses/
noun
noun: due process of law

1. fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a citizen's entitlement.

Due process is fair treatment through the normal judicial system.

The judicial system doesn't begin until you're placed under arrest.

 

Yup, and Obama didn't do anything about it either. Fweedumb is pre-Magna Carta baby.