Jeebus said:
He was pulling up his pants.
How do you know? Did you figure that out for certain the first time you watched the video? Remember The cop only had a split second and couldn’t replay what the guy was doing like you can with the video. Again, the first time I watched the video it looked like he could have been pulling gun. I certainly couldn’t be sure he wasn’t, and I wasn’t under and kind of stress when I watched it the first time, unlike the cop whose life was on the line if he guessed wrong. Keep in mind, we can analyze the video until doomsday if we want, that cop had only a split second to make a decision knowing that if he screwed up someone could die.
Why would he decide to pull out a gun as he’s being faced down by 2 officers with rifles?
for all the cops knew, the guy was crazy. I agree it is stupid to pull a gun out when faced with 2 cops with rifles pointed at you, but sometime people do stupid crazy suicidal things.
Why would he comply with their endless stupid demands if he intended to pull out a gun? If he intended to shoot, why not do it before surrendering?
Don’t know. But you are assuming people always do what makes sense. That is not always the case. Btw, I looked that at video multiple times and thought about it a lot and never considered why would comply with their demands if he intended to pull out a gun. Think about that. I had a lot of time to think about the shooting and I watched the video multiple times and I didn’t consider your point here until I read it. The cop in this situation didn’t have the luxury of sitting around thinking about the situation and pondering this point. He had a split second to make a decision, knowing that if guessed the guy did not have a gun and he was wrong he could end up dead.
Those cops got on the scene intending to kill someone.
You don’t know that.
They shouted confusing demands at him, hoping for him to slip up; as if to justify their cold-blooded murder.
Again, you are assuming. You don’t know that to be the case.
If they intended to arrest him, they would’ve done so the second he surrendered himself, but they wanted to play with their prey.
for pity sake. seriously? What makes you so certain of all of this?
Whether or not the cops genuinely believed he was reaching for a gun is immaterial,
no, it is not immaterial. If a person in that position is reaching for a gun, knowing there are rifles pointed at him, he is doing so for only one reason: he intends to use it.
because everything else surrounding the case shows that they’re totally unfit for the position.
maybe, I agree their attitude towards the guy seems strange. Again I don’t know why they didn’t order the guy to lay and search him that way. Maybe they are unfit. But the question before the court was whether the guy that fired is guilty of 2nd degree murder. If the cop that fired the shots believed the man had a gun, is he really guilty of murder? Bad policing maybe, but murder? You may have a good case for a wrongful death suit, but murder?
Like I said before, I want to know exactly what happened the led up to the beginning of what he see in the video.