• Hillock@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    The guy that got shot was part of a car chase that switched to a foot chase after the cars tire blew out. The guy didn’t just walk down the road with a gun. In the video you can also see the guy making a strange movement with the gun just before the cop shot. It most likely was to throw the gun away but the cop couldn’t have known that. And given the overall circumstances shooting at this point seems reasonable.

    But the cop is still a piece of shit that shouldn’t have been a cop by this point anymore. He is a cop since 2018 and has been involved in now 5 shootings (far higher than the average). And he was part of the badge bending scandal. Where cops bent the tips of their badge to mark fatal shootings. Any cop who does that, shouldn’t be a cop.

    Luckily the guy survived, unfortunately the cop will stay a cop.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      He threw a gun away right in front of the cop. It would be a weird move to throw one away and shoot with the other one.