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The NYTimes conveniently puts their disclamer banner in a crucial spot just prior to the officer drawing and shooting.
While I think based on what I viewed, that the officer could have ran after, or somehow physically subdued the suspect, we don't know all the facts surrounding this, and they will come out.
So, I guess all the cop haters, and anarchist can now proceed to gather their lynch mobs, and Sharpton, and Jackson can make more money with lies and ginned up outrage.
Sad really.
If you look on youtube you can find the raw footage from the incident (and I would assume on live-leak too).
What we do know is that:
1. it was not a violent offender
2. his crime was a broken tail light and not paying his child support
3. trying to get away
None of these things warranted the death penalty and that is what he got when an officer gunned him down from a distance in the back (with 8 bullets).
And I do not want lynch mobs, why would I? The officer seems to be having to pay for his offenses (if found guilty) and that is all anyone can ask from the legal system. Sharpton and Jackson can rightfully complain that this is yet another unarmed colored person being gunned down but they can do that from a position of weakness because in this case the wheels of justice are working at the correct speed.
And the really sad thing is that now instead of not getting child support the children of this man are now fatherless. That is what is really sad. The officer choose his own path, I feel sad for his family but I am not that sad for him. He killed a man without there being a justification for it, he was not in danger, he was not justified to gun that unarmed man down like that.