Correct he was not, nor was such thing asserted. However it is clear that by walking away he did not pose ANY threat to anyone.
It sure appeared like you were asserting that he was shot for non compliance, and that is not true. And although, committing the act of walking away from an officer with gun drawn on you, while issuing commands to get down, take your hands out of your pockets, and freeze is NOT smart, (ask your Federal LEO friends) he wasn't shot for that....
Not for me, we are debating an issue and you are asserting something that I am questioning. I am asking for you to support it.
That is true, and I believe that I am backing it up not only video evidence, but common sense.
Great now we are making steps. He lowered his hand. It is not clear why but it does not appear to reach in his pocket and the helicopter video does not support reaching in his pocket either. Moreover the shot is fired around marker 0:28 so I ask what happened for those 10 seconds? Took him that long to take his hands out as you assert or took her that long to decide or that is when she could no longer control herself and fired?
Ok, the only thing I could do is speculate, because I wasn't there. But, in discussing this with the LEO friends that I have, the likely scenerio is that the entire way back to his car he was being told to stop, and get down. then while at his car he was likely told to place his hands on the car, to which he then dropped his hands to either his waistband, or his pocket, AGAIN, and after being told previously NOT to do that, at which point it is in the hands of each individual officer to make a decision in deference of protecting their own life, and that of the other officers around them. She decided that the unknown threat was too great, and fired...This is not only protocol, but it is a judgement call of every officer, every day on the street.
It is irrelevant, only the facts on the scene matter, but I have had to make threat assessments in far more hostile environments.
Ok, so you are basically saying that YOU wouldn't have done things the same way she did...Ok....I get that...But YOU weren't there, and I don't think it is completely fair of you to immediately condemn her, and judge her guilty without the investigation being done, nor ALL the facts known.
If you are going to make such damning statements as you have in here, then by God you'd better have more than "it's irrelevant."
Yes several, all federal.
Me too, several are Harford County, MD Sheriff's, and a couple are MD State Troopers.
That is what was asserted earlier.
No, at least not by me. But, I will say that something EVERY LEO is trained on, and employs is what is known as the "continuum of force"... So, while not complying is not an instant reason to have deadly force used on you, it is in the continuum of force so it will escalate the situation to that point.
