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Did you look at the link?
Scene 1; Two innocent cops sitting in their car, someone walks up and 'executes' (aka muuuuurders) them.
Scene 2; A cocky idiot being non-compliant and behaving in a manner that could easily (by logical peeps) be construed to be reaching for a firearm around his waist, gets a lethal dose of lead. Unfortunate choices bring unfortunate consequences.
Sorry, but my sympathies are firmly aligned with the law enforcement officers attempting to do their dangerous jobs. Guess that makes me a bad person.
You do you, I'll do me.
I disagree. Being non-compliant is common in all forms of history. People resist arrest ALL the time. Protestors block roads and chain themselves to trees. Police don't shoot them. If the officers responded to a shooting or an armed robbery, I can understand being overly cautious but this was simply a BIKE theft. A 200 dollar bike is not worth shooting someone over.
Officers have multiple forms of non lethals. Obviously the suspect was confused as to why the police had their firearms drawn. Probably because they hadn't done anything wrong other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I've cleared houses in BAGHDAD with angry punching Iraqi's and my soldiers were never RATTLED like these cops were. You can't really tell from the video but there could have been language barrier, they could have been drinking, who knows. None of which is their fault. The guy should have kept his hands up.
This will lead to a wrongful death suit and most likely the city or town will be sued for a few million.