The guy starts the car. The cop leverages himself in a manner to keep himself in front of the window while he draws his gun and executes the driver. Simple as that.
in front of the window....on the side of the car?
keep in mind he was moving to arrest the guy, who was totally at fault for escalating the interaction attempting to flee. I mean people need to step back and examine all the facts and who is escalating the conflict and take a hard look at the timing of things.
Really? Are you trying to use the potential imminence as a justification for of an action that has legal precedence specifically stating that officers cannot use deadly force for it? While at the same time not stepping back and examining the recent national context of police officer conduct on our communities? In what world is anything that young man did equatable to the escalation of an immediate execution? GTFO
You think you're being reasonable, but it's really only bias. Every time this happens, and it happens a lot, people try to over-analyze the situation to justify the officer's actions when cumulative data tells us there's a larger, real problem going on in America and it's not terrorism or some farming community living on a large oil deposit in the Middle-East...it's our own policing culture (among others).
*Note: Out of all the officers I've met in Kansas, 98% were good people. Hell, one is a good buddy, but he has kind of echoed this same thing to me...there's a culture of "us vs. them".
