dave is ok
aztek is ok
He probably panicked when he realized the car started moving and he was being dragged and pulled his gun out. I'm guessing he wasn't the most seasoned officer considering he was campus police.
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Police officer shoots unarmed man to death in Cincinnati traffic stop
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Amory
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Hadn't followed the reply thread back far enough, thought you were talking about the man himself.
Its entirely possible that the shooting is justified. If the struggle to get the door open resulted in the officers arm or part of his uniform got caught in the door when the guy shut it and started to drive off with the cop stuck in the door it would be perfectly justified to shoot the driver.
If the struggle was at the window and the guy held onto the door and inadvertently pinned the officers arm on the window as he pulled away it would still be justified.
The fact that he only shot once could mean he shot and fell backwards or was falling backwards as he fell. After he's on the ground and the car is going down the road it is no longer a lethal force situation so he should have stopped shooting like he did.
But on the other hand it could be a completely unjustified shooting as well. Once the video comes out we'll see. But people need to understand that there are reasons that it could be justified instead of spouting the typical cop-murderer bullshit that these threads always have by drive by posters that don't even bother to look deeper into it.
Yes there is a huge problem with inherent bias and racism in policing. It is finally coming to the forefront of training within the police community. Its not the solution but its a start. But rolling your eyes and having outrage when we don't even have the facts yet only makes things worse.
If the struggle was at the window and the guy held onto the door and inadvertently pinned the officers arm on the window as he pulled away it would still be justified.
The fact that he only shot once could mean he shot and fell backwards or was falling backwards as he fell. After he's on the ground and the car is going down the road it is no longer a lethal force situation so he should have stopped shooting like he did.
But on the other hand it could be a completely unjustified shooting as well. Once the video comes out we'll see. But people need to understand that there are reasons that it could be justified instead of spouting the typical cop-murderer bullshit that these threads always have by drive by posters that don't even bother to look deeper into it.
Yes there is a huge problem with inherent bias and racism in policing. It is finally coming to the forefront of training within the police community. Its not the solution but its a start. But rolling your eyes and having outrage when we don't even have the facts yet only makes things worse.
boiled goose
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Stop shooting us.
Who do you protect?
Who do you protect?
You don't want to jump to conclusions and would rather wait for evidence yet you are making up shit out of thin air in this thread to justify the killing and make the cop look better?
Ziltoidia 9
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Seems like the situation where that cop shot the man running away from him...only this time the suspect was driving away. Just a lot less bullets.
I'll wait for the video.
I'll wait for the video.
quickwhips
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You have no clue what your talking about I know campus officers that go through the same training academy as other state officers. They also work the job 20+ years.
Actually most of the campus police officers get more training than most other police departments because they have better budgets and school shootings are something that campus officers would be the first responders to, so it becomes even more critical that they are properly trained and trained often.
boiled goose
good with gravy
Amazing.
Because it wasn't on the TV show COPS
dave is ok
aztek is ok
Even if campus officers are trained the same (or better) than your typical city cop, their day to day job is much different and involves much different types of calls.
eot
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Holy shit dude, the police's job isn't to fucking gun down anyone who is being disorderly.
kame-sennin
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This is Neogaf, there's at least one thread on incidents like these. Here's 2.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1080563
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1080950
Velcro Fly
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hahaha are you fucking serious
pick up a fucking history book, read about the holocaust, and feel bad for trivializing it by trying to make a sarcastic point.
then write me a 500 word essay on how you won't ever compare anything to the Nazis or Hitler again and why doing so is always a terrible idea
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Yeah, not like we should hold our cops to a higher standard or anything.
Amory
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Obviously police should be held to a high standard. Not sure how this is related to what I said.
HP_Wuvcraft
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Is that why the officer was just charged with murder? You should really read up on news before posting next time.
Edit: Watch the video for yourself. It's straight up murder.
DrForester
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You assume he's drunk, so did I. But nowhere is it stated that the office thought he was drunk, just that he was handed a bottle of gin (and the bottle looks to be sealed).
I also have to imagine if the police know the Blood Alcohol Level of the man by now, and if he were drunk, it would have been stated he was drunk. Because I would even agree, a drunk guy who is about to take off in a car is a danger to others. But that does not appear to be the case at all.
There really is no other way to word this:
You're a fucking idiot, and you know jack-shit about the law.
I can't tell if you're trolling in terrible taste.
old manatee
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Yeah guys, we have a video of him murdering a guy in cold blood for no reason, but let's
not rush to judgement. Let's sit back and wait for the system to work its magic.
Fixed the URL.
This is straight up murder. The victim is black, of course. There was no reason for the police to attempt to open his car door let alone struggle with him.
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