Cop on texags defends the SA cop above
InfantryAg1:30a, 10/7/22
In reply to Quincey P. Morris
Quincey P. Morris said:
I've watched the video. Numerous times. Within a two second time frame the cop tells him to get out of the car, the kid asks why, the cop grabs at him, and the car starts to move. There's no blame for this situation anywhere but the cop. The cop made a dumb decision in how he initiated contact and then gave zero time to even comply. Listen to the cops is fine, but this situation that doesn't fly.
You asked where the kid disobeyed the cop and that he started running when the cop shot him. These are factually incorrect.
Then you moved the goalposts by changing your statement to what you posted in my quote above.
You watched the video drunk? because there is time in the video, and there is a pause button.
The sequence of events (time is from the video posted in the OP):
8 sec: kid looks back surprised at the door opening
9-10 sec: kids has observed and oriented (mentally processed) that there is a uniformed police officer there and decided he is going to not comply, but instead escape.
10 sec: kid places hand on shifter, pushes button and moves shifter into reverse, moves hand towards steering wheel
11 sec: kid says "what or why" and accelerates the car backwards as the cop is moving into the doorway
12 sec: cop grabs at kid, while having to move to his right to avoid being knocked down by the door
12-13 sec: cop draws gun, while moving back out of the doorway
13 sec: cop aims gun (he is out of the doorway and no longer in imminent danger)
14 sec: cop starts firing gun
The cop was dumb, but if the kid had complied the lawful order, he wouldn't have gotten shot, so he does bear some blame. The kid, based on his actions of proactively placing the car in reverse and accelerating back. He may have not intended to hit the officer, but he intended on escaping.
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