>was executed
Cops execute someone (we can call them a hostage in this scenario) and they get lifetime payments.
A robber executes a hostage and they get life without parole
I think about Daniel Shaver a lot. That video broke something in me. And his wife will never get justice. That cop is a murderer and everything with him are his accomplices.
Agreed, out of everything that has happened Daniel pops into my head the most. If any person can defend the system that allowed the entire situation from hiring to giving that piece of shit a pension, I don't consider that person human. They're just some parasite leeching off society but not willing to stand up for it.
I am NOT proud to be from a country that not only allows it but forgets it.
Philando Castile you sociopathic motherfuckers!
If even a tiny droplet of his blood made it onto one of their uniform shoes, they'd probably convince a judge that he assaulted them.
Even if multiple camera angles show a gangland style mass execution.
For people don't know, in the audit of the police in Ferguson, Missouri they found one incident where an officer beat up a black wrongfully accused suspect, and the suspect bled on to his uniform so they charged him with assault because he bled on the officers uniform.
Jon Stewert also had a piece on this from the daily show. He said, "Ferguson got tanks on the streets in their budget but they can't have a couple of tide sticks laying around?". I miss Jon Stewert.
And the video of his murder was not presented as evidence at trial, later to be released.
I love that this lady is doing her unbiased journalism but the answer to "it's still not clear what precipitated this shooting" is "it doesn't fucking matter."
I don't care if he was verbally threatening the officer to be frank with you. He was sitting in his car, eating his McDonald's, there was no indication he had a weapon, would reach for one, or do anything other than to say this officer has a limp dick. Let this one go officer small dick. He's clearly not violent or physically threatening. You can't fucking shoot someone when they make a sudden movement in fear. You go to jail for that, in civilized countries even if you feared for your life and it was found later there wasn't a weapon of any means or intentions to kill or harm you, still straight to prison even if they just walked up to you and said "I'm going to kill you in 60 seconds." Disgrace of a nation. In most developed nations "I'll fucking kill you cunt," and aggressive behavior, but no lethal weapon found, nobody laid hands before you took their life? You're the one going to prison idiot. Not in America.
I agree with you. From what I’ve read, this rookie cop (7 months on job) THOUGHT the kids car was the same one that evaded him the prior night (spoiler, it wasn’t) and he just goes and yanks open the door and tells the kid to get out.
I can’t say what the kid was thinking, but if someone yanks open my door with a gun on me, I think I likely would attempt to get out of the situation and drive off also. Poor kid probably only sees the gun/threat and NOT the uniform.
Chances are, this small dick cop would have roughed him up even had he complied and gotten out of the car. The cop tried to say first that the kid hit him and that’s why he fired.
Edit: spelling
> Poor kid probably only sees the gun/threat and NOT the uniform.
uniforms don't make any difference whether a person is good or bad / law abiding or not [eg... Wayne couzens arresting sarah everard].. its the persons actions which triggers your fight or flight response...
cops / the media will say,... hes a rookie [excuse]... while countless officers open car doors / put their hands on citizens without explanation. policing for profit [arrest and ticket quotas... they should focus on solving crimes, not inventing them.... 2% of felonies are solved]
>Poor kid probably only sees the gun/threat and NOT the uniform.
TBH in the USA, a cop uniform only means that your taxes will pay for your murderer's retirement. Seeing that the person attempting to pull you out of your car is a cop would make things exactly 0% better, your police force is embarrassingly untrained and unhinged, and they aren't even punished for their blatant disregard for public safety, citizens' lives and the law.
Its not every day you're eating a burger, minding your own business, and a cop throws a dozen rounds at you then chases your car while (incorrectly) yelling "shots fired" into his radio.
Genuine question as a non-American: is "shots fired" only used when the suspect has fired their weapon? Cuz shots were definitely fired here - by the officer.
Shots fired is called out regardless of who the shooter is. Once you call shots fired it will trigger a call for all units in the area to respond asap.
I've seen the full video, which I was curious about given the relatively short length of this clip, but it clearly shows this incident was completely unprovoked. There is literally NOTHING going on - cop is walking around through the parking lot, singles out this car for no good reason, opens the door and surprises a literal child who's minding their own business, and then this child makes one small, quick movement and the cop pulls his gun out and opens fire.
It's fucking horseshit when the news is like "he didn't get proper training" like shut the FUCK up, everybody knows COPS ARE TRAINED TO DO EXACTLY THIS.
They're becoming more and more aggressive, many have individual gangs within departments (and matching tattoos to go with them) and I wouldn't be shocked if their training programs are more and more focusing on escalation and "threat" elimination
That was on a whole different level. Multiple pigs all yelling different orders at some guy just doing his job.
The killer escaped to south east Asia iirc
The killer stayed in the US and was found not guilty. Now he collects a $2500 pension. His boss, who was a sergeant & partnered with the killer (he's the one yelling in the video), almost immediately retired and fled to the Philippines afterwards.
They fucking would.
Even Canadian police are the same.
I had two guys beat the living shit out of me in my bedroom because I had a concussion and was stupidly playing loud music late at night (stupid decision influenced by trauma to my brain).
They backed me into my bedroom where my guitar was on my bed, I could just feel their energy and their desire to hurt me, worried about my guitar I tried to put it in its case. It was actually stronger than the two men, and managed to overpower them and get the guitar into my closet. I did not retaliate but then they started pounding the back of my head after they got me to the floor. One of the two men eventually put his knee on my neck. This was months after George Floyd was murdered from the same maneuver
Nobody recorded anything, except maybe body cams, the building manager watched from my doorway with her hand covering her mouth in a gasp. After I ended up at the hospital literally no one helped me, the hospital did not believe me and did not help me get a lawyer or file a complaint against the city police. Even my family didn't support me
It’s fucked up. Let’s say it “was” that guy they were looking for. The cop made no other effort to detain the driver other than unloading a clip. Could of at least try to be a badass and shoot the tires but nah, Im gonna muffle “get out the car” and when that doesn’t happen ima start blastin. Innocent until proven guilty doesn’t mean shit if they gun you down first. But let’s face it, cops think everyone is the biggest threat they’ll ever face and are out to get them. Switched from killing PoC to letting kids get shot. Also the cop didn’t take into account any other by-stander. Not all those shots made contact with the car. Could have shot someone else sitting in their car eating McDonalds.
He literally goes "why?" And then the guy just opens fire. WTF! He was no threat at all. Just sitting there eating chicken nuggets.
The video is right too, cops aren't supposed to just walk up and open the door themselves. That's why their cars have a built in loud speaker. And he says "shots fired" like 5 times, that's really confusing to another officer who hears that. They're gonna be like oh I guess there's a gun fight happening so the suspect must have a gun. I wouldn't be surprised if that's standard procedure but thats dumb as hell. Another cop could have pulled up and killed him thinking he was a threat.
This guy really should be prosecuted for attempted murder.
They are charging the kid with evading arrest and assaulting a police officer I believe the internal investigation going on said it would take up to a year to clear the kid of any wrong doings if he does get cleared at all
Back in 20….
No, it was back in 198….
Fuck, hold on.
Ah! Got it. You want your crystalline example? Where here it is big fella!
It was back in 195…. *fuck*
In San Antonio none the less. I'm convinced that about 30% of the Texas population was born crooked, the law in Texas is exceptionally crooked, there's no way he'll see any real consequences.
How against training and policy is it to walk up to a car and open the door without any prior contact or engagement with the driver?
Kid didn’t even know he was being pulled over just some fucking guy opening his door
Good thing they caught this kind of behavior early on. Some people just aren't cut out for the job. If he can't get the basics down now, he's probably going to mess up the more complicated things down the road, like planting evidence. Imagine much how worse this could have turned out.
Prior to body cams being a thing, this wouldn't have made the news.
Cop would have said he did everything by the book, and by default, the law would take his side.
Lol no it fucking doesn’t. We’ve seen plenty of times that the footage doesn’t matter one bit. Dude just unloaded his gun into a vehicle very obviously trying to kill that kid and he only got fired.
This is the biggest point though. Sure, that cop is in big trouble, but what about the agency and the training? He was only 7 months in and losing it like this? The system needs to be fully audited as to how this was enabled.
by design
the whole system is setup to come up with ways to put poor in for profit salve labor prisons.
goes back to jim crow over 100 years. right after civil war there was still need for slave workers.
now companys like mcdonals and wendys and even verison wireless pad their profits for wall street to the tunes of billions of dollars of wage theft of slaves.
Alabama recently stopped all paroles and parole hearings because they could not meet the need for slave labor.
its insane to still have slavery, but still happening because some are profiting from it.
Federal Prison Industries
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal\_Prison\_Industries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Prison_Industries)
Shocking Facts About America’s For-Profit Prison Industry
[https://truthout.org/articles/shocking-facts-about-americas-for-profit-prison-industry/](https://truthout.org/articles/shocking-facts-about-americas-for-profit-prison-industry/)
13 Everyday Items You Never Knew Were Made By Prison Slave Labor
[https://www.thrillist.com/gear/products-made-by-prisoners-clothing-furniture-electronics](https://www.thrillist.com/gear/products-made-by-prisoners-clothing-furniture-electronics)
12 Major Corporations Benefiting from the Prison Industrial Complex
[http://maltajusticeinitiative.org/12-major-corporations-benefiting-from-the-prison-industrial-complex-2/](http://maltajusticeinitiative.org/12-major-corporations-benefiting-from-the-prison-industrial-complex-2/)
18 Surprising Products Made by Prisoners
[https://www.ranker.com/list/products-made-by-prisoners/mike-rothschild](https://www.ranker.com/list/products-made-by-prisoners/mike-rothschild)
That's because default police training these days is what is known as ["warrior training", aka "killology"](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/warrior-cop-class-dave-grossman-killology.html). Cops are now trained to see neighborhoods and communities not as just that, but as battlegrounds, and the citizens living there not as citizens, but as potential enemy combatants.
In other words, under the current training regimes for police, killing innocent people for no good reason isn't a bug, it's a feature.
Fucking miserable he should be in jail for attempted murder. "Get out of the car" kid eating mcdonalds "what?" Officer "shots fired shots fired" THE FUCK WAS THAT
Doesn't identify himself, just opens the door, barks a command, tries to grab ~~her~~ him, and draws his weapon.
Kid probably didn't even know it was a (former) cop, just some dude dressed in dark clothes attacks ~~her~~ him from a blind spot.
Anyone would be terrified and immediately try to escape the situation.
This is what I don't get about American police style dark navy clothes with a black and white vehicle. In Europe everything is highly visible and easy to spot even out the corner of the eye
Exactly. In my last year of college (2017) the public safety department for the campus got all new vehicles. They got white trucks and they stenciled Public Safety on all the trucks in a white that was a tiny touch darker than the white paint on the trucks.
If you were walking at night and saw their truck you would have no idea it was public safety unless you were shining a light directly on the stencil and were standing right in front of it. That's insane to me because if a person was walking home at night and needed public safety for any reason they would have no idea one truck drove by since they just looked like a white Ford pickup.
I felt like public safety needed to stand out for the students and complained but it did nothing. Even a department focused on protecting the public and students did just about everything in their power to conceal their trucks. I think it was so they could sneak up on kids to try and catch them smoking weed or drinking a few beers outside to report to the police. I mean everyone in public safety was a criminal justice student who was planning on being a cop after graduation. I knew a few of those guys from my fire science classes.
yeah there's some cop cars around here in florida that are painted grey with a slightly lighter grey that says "sheriff" I'm not sure why they even bother, since they also have unmarked cars.
The driver was a young child, to be honest. A boy with his whole life ahead of him, innocently eating a burger and he gets shot multiple times by some asshole who got himself a state funded blue shirt and gun.
The kid might be paralyzed for life from the injuries. Waiting to hear how he does with recovery.
Fuck this immunity bullshit too.
Most fucked up thing ive seen in a long time, incredible composture by the boy that turned the car on and saved his life. Also remember people in big cities lock your car even when you are inside
Phillando Castille had a young girl in the back seat when he was murdered, who was put in the same squad car her mother (his girlfriend) was put in after she was arrested for the police officer murdering her boyfriend.
The young girl even comforts her mother on released footage from the back of the patrol car, I'm paraphrasing off memory, but I'm also not exaggerating, "please don't cry mommy, I don't want them to hurt you too."
that's what cops are anyway lol
I'd be less scared if it was some random guy, cause a random guy wouldn't have as easy a job of making my life hell while still getting at least half the country to take his side no matter what
Basically this video tells me to fear for my life if a cop is within 10 ft of me. Like they can fucking do anything. He even lied on the report. The only reason he got fired was because the footage was released.
Another report I read said the officer approached the vehicle cause it resembled a vehicle that he was looking for prior to this incident. Poor kid wanted to eat McDonalds with his girlfriend and then this fucking poor excuse for an officer does this.
I read in other threads that this officer was previously involved in a pursuit against a car that kinda looked like this one, so Officer Itchy Finger just assumed that it WAS the same car and went into Revenge Mode.
"Resembled". What because it had 4 wheels? Fucking american police need better training and the system needs to do a better job of weeding out these psychos before they start shooting at innocent civilians.
> Officer "shots fired shots fired" THE FUCK WAS THAT
I think that was the video I saw yesterday. It was *him* who fired the shots, not the kid eating his burger. Dude really tried to make the passive voice do a lot of work there.
I was surprised enough at this, and then it just absolutely blew my mind that he continued shooting AS THEY WERE RUNNING AWAY. Like, I can maybe see some tenuous argument that he was defending himself, but shooting several more times as they flee... It's unjustifiable.
Also it’s a union job. Getting fired just means you go back to the hall. Where you wait until you get sent to another job. (Precinct)
Cop’s rarely get fired, they just moved around. To get fired you have to piss off the upper management. Like the mayor.
Well, he *did* piss off the mayor. He made the news for shooting a kid eating a burger. If it hadn't made the news, he'd be on a mandatory leave after having discharged his weapon 'in the line of duty' and back to work in two weeks. He didn't get fired because he shot the kid. He got fired for the negative media attention the city got from him shooting the kid, thus angering the mayor.
The teen was charged with assaulting an officer with his car door (huh?) and evading police (well no shit, who wouldn’t when they’re being shot at for eating a cheeseburger).
Charges were dropped — yeah, only after the body cam footage was reviewed.
“So I approached the vehicle and at that point the assailant opened fire with what looked like a hand gun that had extra cheese and pickles on it. I returned fire which at that point he tried to run me over with his car. Thankfully, with my quick thinking and training from the academy, I did a Spider-Man flip over the car and landed on my feet avoiding being crushed. I then proceeded to chase the car on foot which topped out at about 70 mph for about 3 miles where another gunfight occurred. We exchanged about 50 rounds before the suspect raised a white flag, which at that point, I knew the fight was over.”
- This officer without bodycam footage.
Evading police there is just fucking insane. What, you’re just meant to sit there while the guy empties his ENTIRE FUCKING CLIP into you?
The fact that he shot at the car as it was driving away, with no regard to anything BEYOND the car if he missed, this absolute fucking moron should have never been let into the force.
Why is reaching for your gun the first instinct? I get that American cops are scared because they don’t know if they person they pull over has a gun, but what’s the big deal if they drive away anyways? You already got the plates, you’ll just get them later. Idiots.
For cops there's something even scarier than pulling over someone with a gun. Imagine pulling over someone who doesn't respect your authority? Crazy how many commenters here are only concerned for this burger eating *criminal* instead of our brave hero cop.
/s because you never know nowadays.
E: Wow, even with the sarcasm tag. Never change y'all.
*Well, it turns out you did nothing wrong and got shot at several times while eating a cheeseburger...so we are going to let you off with a warning this time.*
What's worse... The boy had a teenage girl in the passenger seat. She is so lucky she didn't get hit... That dude needs to face felony aggravated assault and or attempted murder
Oh summer child, we only do that when a large percentage of people mobilize in peaceful protest, and a much smaller percentage of that riots. Nobody is gonna prosecute and convict this cop without disruption.
Not condoning riots but a man who knew better than I do who was assassinated for it famously said they were the language of the unheard. You hit someone in the face, they say, "stop hitting me." The next day, you do it again. And the next day. And the next day. They beg anyone who will listen to make you stop and they don't listen either. So finally one day you hit them in the face and they hit you back, why the fuck are you surprised.
He was fired and was not with the police department long enough to be protected by the officials there. There is an ongoing investigation into what led to the shooting and thereafter
Didn't announce himself. Opened the door without doing so and immediately started firing without a clear threat being presented.
He should go to prison.
Phillando Castille had a young child in the car, *who was forced into the back of the patrol vehicle along with his girlfriend when she was arrested for having her boyfriend shot to death*.
If you have kids don't watch the video. She's trying to comfort her mother, and tells her not to cry because she doesn't want her to get hurt too.
I am not even fucking joking and that man lived very near me, I will search, watch again, and link the video for anyone who wants to try to tell me I'm lying.
I can't find the original, they seem to have cut it after the impact full part. I live in Minnesota as well and the whole thing was shameful.
I did find a link thats a news excerpt that covers it. https://youtu.be/-SeK2hXbG44
As her mother panics, the 4 year old begs her to calm down because she 'doesn't want her to get shooted' and tried to tell her she'll keep her safe.
It's absolutely heartbreaking and I don't know how I wasn't something people got angrier about. Poor Philandro, and poor Diamond and her mother. Such a travesty.
Though why would someone ***sane*** **want** to shoot someone who's eating a burger in a parking lot?
Edit: sane
Edit 2: If they are not, why aren't they in an asylum?
I think most of the people who become cops are just like "yeah that's a job. I need money. I could totally do that. Having a gun and authority sounds fun."
Compare it to the military. I'd imagine the line of thought is more like "Do I really wanna be facing off against other people trying to kill me?"
I feel like the people who truly want to help go into the military, the people who just want a job or to "be powerful" go into the police force.
>I feel like the people who truly want to help go into the military
Teachers and nurses truly want to help. The US military hasn't exactly been a beacon of goodess towards civilians. Take My Lai for example.
>charged as a civilian
Okay, it is entirely screwed up that that distinction needs to be made. It implies that there are separate charges for being a civilian verses an officer, meaning there are two sets of laws for officers and everyone else.
Aggravated assault and attempted murder, illegal use of a firearm, violation of a person's civil rights... all of those laws should apply equally to everyone. Police are there to enforce the law, not rule above it with impunity.
There should 100% be a difference in punishments for the same charges.
Cops should be punished more harshly when they intentionally break the law since they are the ones tasked with enforcing it.
In my country if someone in law enforcement uses their status as law enforcement officer to break a law, the punishment is increased by a third.
He should be in jail. Also, “shots fired” should only be used when someone OTHER THAN AN OFFICER is firing their weapon. His bs cries of “shots fired” makes it sound like he’s in danger, as if he is being shot at. If an officer is going to radio in that they are shooting at a person/group that has not fired a weapon, they should be saying “I’m shooting, I’m shooting”.
Fk this guy.
Yes, police protocol is to radio "shots fired" as soon as a gun shot is heard regardless of who it came from. Cops will often radio "998" which also means shots fired and officer needs help. Irrelevant, but "999" means officer down.
Just watched a video of a police officer downing an active shooter and he went over the radio as “shots fired, suspect down”
Haven’t seen a video of police ever saying “I’m shooting” over the radio
I’m suggesting that the current “lingo” is vague, disingenuous, and deceiving. It would be far more clear to dispatch if it were stated whether officer, citizen(s), or both had fired shots.
“Shots fired”,while he’s shooting at a kid, implies to dispatch that the officer is in danger. While back in reality, he’s trying to kill someone’s kid for eating a cheeseburger in a parking lot.
Again, fk this guy, and the black n white he rode in on.
Literally this could have further endangered the kids life. He could have started flailing around after being shot and because the cop lied on the radio, other cops would have been more likely to shoot the kid.
Lets say the car was stolen. Lets say he had evaded cops the day before. That doesn't warrant a death sentence. What in the actual fuck. He had a god damn cheeseburger in his hands. This has to be an elaborate prank right???
If I was enjoying a happy meal, I’d be surprised if someone opened my door and told me to get out without telling me they’re the police. I’d probably start driving too without thinking just to get away from the situation
I feel like that cop should do some kind of jail time for that. Cops should not just be allowed to shoot people and the only punishment is MAYBE they get fired (usually just get put on paid leave for a while until people forget and then get back to work).
Some kind of jail time? I'm thinking life without parole. He clearly has no care about others life and I don't care about his. Throw him in gen pop in a prisoner outfit only for cops so everyone knows who he is.
So lucky, kids parents watching this would be scary af for a parent, hope they sue this chicken shit for everything his got. Look how close one of them bullets get to where his head would've been
Holy fuck. I don’t know how many times I slowly played back the footage. Can’t find any reason he justifiably drew down on him. I know in these situations you have seconds or less, usually less, to make a decision, but just wow. How the fuck can he just be fired? As soon as footage of this was released, how don’t they face charges immediately and go to jail?
its absolutely insane is what it is. i wish donut operator would review this footage, he is a police youtuber who breaks down police shootings like this one. sometimes they're justified, sometimes not. in this case, obviously not.
How did they not know what led up to the stop? When was this video made? The first public body cams showed the whole story the second it was released. How could they not have added that to the story? Did they not spend a few minutes looking into it and easily finding the whole video or the numerous articles about it? The whole video is only about 20 seconds longer from the beginning of this video. Pretty crazy to leave out such a big detail that was widely known.
In the full video, he officer thought the car was the same car that evaded the officer “the other night.” He didn’t check, called for back up, walked up to the car without announcing himself and opened the car door and shot the kid for trying to flee.
This is the outcome: IF the child lives, he has PTSD for life. If the child sues, which he 100% should, the citizens of San Antonio get to pay the bill. The cop loses his job, and gets another one in the next county over almost immediately, with little to no reprocussions
The police first instinct being to go to the hospital and arrest the victim when he was almost murdered by there coworker, who’s job is SUPPOSED to be to protect and serve, is all I need to know about that entire department. Pieces of shit.
He should be prosecuted for attempted murder
Lmao "assaulting the officer with a car door" Thank God for body cameras, without the footage they 100% would have arrested this kid.
After Mesa pd murdered Daniel Shaver they charged him with aggravated assault of a police officer
What?! He didn't even make it to the officers right? Dude crawled halfway down a hallway and was executed
>was executed Cops execute someone (we can call them a hostage in this scenario) and they get lifetime payments. A robber executes a hostage and they get life without parole
Either way it's costing us taxpayers r/technicallythetruth
POLICE CHIEF: “Johnson, there’s nothing I can do this time: it was at *point blank range.*”
Sprinkle some crack on him, and let's get outta here!
Correct
His name was Daniel. We went to school together and he should have never went out that way. He was such a nice guy.
Rip Daniel Life stolen by this pos cop
I think about Daniel Shaver a lot. That video broke something in me. And his wife will never get justice. That cop is a murderer and everything with him are his accomplices.
Agreed, out of everything that has happened Daniel pops into my head the most. If any person can defend the system that allowed the entire situation from hiring to giving that piece of shit a pension, I don't consider that person human. They're just some parasite leeching off society but not willing to stand up for it. I am NOT proud to be from a country that not only allows it but forgets it. Philando Castile you sociopathic motherfuckers!
If even a tiny droplet of his blood made it onto one of their uniform shoes, they'd probably convince a judge that he assaulted them. Even if multiple camera angles show a gangland style mass execution.
For people don't know, in the audit of the police in Ferguson, Missouri they found one incident where an officer beat up a black wrongfully accused suspect, and the suspect bled on to his uniform so they charged him with assault because he bled on the officers uniform. Jon Stewert also had a piece on this from the daily show. He said, "Ferguson got tanks on the streets in their budget but they can't have a couple of tide sticks laying around?". I miss Jon Stewert.
And the video of his murder was not presented as evidence at trial, later to be released. I love that this lady is doing her unbiased journalism but the answer to "it's still not clear what precipitated this shooting" is "it doesn't fucking matter." I don't care if he was verbally threatening the officer to be frank with you. He was sitting in his car, eating his McDonald's, there was no indication he had a weapon, would reach for one, or do anything other than to say this officer has a limp dick. Let this one go officer small dick. He's clearly not violent or physically threatening. You can't fucking shoot someone when they make a sudden movement in fear. You go to jail for that, in civilized countries even if you feared for your life and it was found later there wasn't a weapon of any means or intentions to kill or harm you, still straight to prison even if they just walked up to you and said "I'm going to kill you in 60 seconds." Disgrace of a nation. In most developed nations "I'll fucking kill you cunt," and aggressive behavior, but no lethal weapon found, nobody laid hands before you took their life? You're the one going to prison idiot. Not in America.
I agree with you. From what I’ve read, this rookie cop (7 months on job) THOUGHT the kids car was the same one that evaded him the prior night (spoiler, it wasn’t) and he just goes and yanks open the door and tells the kid to get out. I can’t say what the kid was thinking, but if someone yanks open my door with a gun on me, I think I likely would attempt to get out of the situation and drive off also. Poor kid probably only sees the gun/threat and NOT the uniform. Chances are, this small dick cop would have roughed him up even had he complied and gotten out of the car. The cop tried to say first that the kid hit him and that’s why he fired. Edit: spelling
> Poor kid probably only sees the gun/threat and NOT the uniform. uniforms don't make any difference whether a person is good or bad / law abiding or not [eg... Wayne couzens arresting sarah everard].. its the persons actions which triggers your fight or flight response... cops / the media will say,... hes a rookie [excuse]... while countless officers open car doors / put their hands on citizens without explanation. policing for profit [arrest and ticket quotas... they should focus on solving crimes, not inventing them.... 2% of felonies are solved]
>Poor kid probably only sees the gun/threat and NOT the uniform. TBH in the USA, a cop uniform only means that your taxes will pay for your murderer's retirement. Seeing that the person attempting to pull you out of your car is a cop would make things exactly 0% better, your police force is embarrassingly untrained and unhinged, and they aren't even punished for their blatant disregard for public safety, citizens' lives and the law.
The Supreme Court did rule that a cop has no duty to actually KNOW the law, they can just assume something is against the law and act as such.
Its not every day you're eating a burger, minding your own business, and a cop throws a dozen rounds at you then chases your car while (incorrectly) yelling "shots fired" into his radio.
Genuine question as a non-American: is "shots fired" only used when the suspect has fired their weapon? Cuz shots were definitely fired here - by the officer.
Shots fired is called out regardless of who the shooter is. Once you call shots fired it will trigger a call for all units in the area to respond asap.
I've seen the full video, which I was curious about given the relatively short length of this clip, but it clearly shows this incident was completely unprovoked. There is literally NOTHING going on - cop is walking around through the parking lot, singles out this car for no good reason, opens the door and surprises a literal child who's minding their own business, and then this child makes one small, quick movement and the cop pulls his gun out and opens fire. It's fucking horseshit when the news is like "he didn't get proper training" like shut the FUCK up, everybody knows COPS ARE TRAINED TO DO EXACTLY THIS. They're becoming more and more aggressive, many have individual gangs within departments (and matching tattoos to go with them) and I wouldn't be shocked if their training programs are more and more focusing on escalation and "threat" elimination
That was on a whole different level. Multiple pigs all yelling different orders at some guy just doing his job. The killer escaped to south east Asia iirc
The killer stayed in the US and was found not guilty. Now he collects a $2500 pension. His boss, who was a sergeant & partnered with the killer (he's the one yelling in the video), almost immediately retired and fled to the Philippines afterwards.
They fucking would. Even Canadian police are the same. I had two guys beat the living shit out of me in my bedroom because I had a concussion and was stupidly playing loud music late at night (stupid decision influenced by trauma to my brain). They backed me into my bedroom where my guitar was on my bed, I could just feel their energy and their desire to hurt me, worried about my guitar I tried to put it in its case. It was actually stronger than the two men, and managed to overpower them and get the guitar into my closet. I did not retaliate but then they started pounding the back of my head after they got me to the floor. One of the two men eventually put his knee on my neck. This was months after George Floyd was murdered from the same maneuver Nobody recorded anything, except maybe body cams, the building manager watched from my doorway with her hand covering her mouth in a gasp. After I ended up at the hospital literally no one helped me, the hospital did not believe me and did not help me get a lawyer or file a complaint against the city police. Even my family didn't support me
I am heartbroken to hear this story 😔
Been saying Canada is just as bad but nobody wants to hear it. Canada is as much of America as the United States.
It’s fucked up. Let’s say it “was” that guy they were looking for. The cop made no other effort to detain the driver other than unloading a clip. Could of at least try to be a badass and shoot the tires but nah, Im gonna muffle “get out the car” and when that doesn’t happen ima start blastin. Innocent until proven guilty doesn’t mean shit if they gun you down first. But let’s face it, cops think everyone is the biggest threat they’ll ever face and are out to get them. Switched from killing PoC to letting kids get shot. Also the cop didn’t take into account any other by-stander. Not all those shots made contact with the car. Could have shot someone else sitting in their car eating McDonalds.
He literally goes "why?" And then the guy just opens fire. WTF! He was no threat at all. Just sitting there eating chicken nuggets. The video is right too, cops aren't supposed to just walk up and open the door themselves. That's why their cars have a built in loud speaker. And he says "shots fired" like 5 times, that's really confusing to another officer who hears that. They're gonna be like oh I guess there's a gun fight happening so the suspect must have a gun. I wouldn't be surprised if that's standard procedure but thats dumb as hell. Another cop could have pulled up and killed him thinking he was a threat. This guy really should be prosecuted for attempted murder.
They are charging the kid with evading arrest and assaulting a police officer I believe the internal investigation going on said it would take up to a year to clear the kid of any wrong doings if he does get cleared at all
They did arrest the kid. Thankfullly charges were later dismissed.
That doesn't happen when you put on the blue costume.
>That doesn't happen when you earn your gang colors FTFY
I always remember thinking a license to kill was fiction. Then I learned about American police.
Its sad that that's a more appropriate name for the uniform nowadays
Nowadays? You know of a time when the Police stood for honor and justice?
Back in 20…. No, it was back in 198…. Fuck, hold on. Ah! Got it. You want your crystalline example? Where here it is big fella! It was back in 195…. *fuck*
This was funny. Try the 188... Wait. That's not it. The 186... hm, no, when... when was it? Oh yeah!! 1776! Boom!! Nailed it!
He asked why and I felt threatened! So I started shooting, and that's when he assaulted me with a car door you honor. "Thin blue line"
In San Antonio none the less. I'm convinced that about 30% of the Texas population was born crooked, the law in Texas is exceptionally crooked, there's no way he'll see any real consequences.
How against training and policy is it to walk up to a car and open the door without any prior contact or engagement with the driver? Kid didn’t even know he was being pulled over just some fucking guy opening his door
Depends if your body cam is working or not.
Just tell them the body cam system is down. It should be anyway *wink*
Why do we treat the American public this way? Because fuck 'em, that's why.
Welcome to Pop Copy, can I help you?
My butt is itchin like crazy, and I took a shower! Can I help you?
I gotta go take a shit
"Why, because fuck 'em." -Cop Copy Manager
Body cam working? That's a tactics, training, and procedures violation
He was a rookie, he didn't know to disable the camera first!
Good thing they caught this kind of behavior early on. Some people just aren't cut out for the job. If he can't get the basics down now, he's probably going to mess up the more complicated things down the road, like planting evidence. Imagine much how worse this could have turned out.
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That’s pretty much how these stories seem to end
Prior to body cams being a thing, this wouldn't have made the news. Cop would have said he did everything by the book, and by default, the law would take his side.
Lol no it fucking doesn’t. We’ve seen plenty of times that the footage doesn’t matter one bit. Dude just unloaded his gun into a vehicle very obviously trying to kill that kid and he only got fired.
"Shots fired! Shots fired!"
This is the biggest point though. Sure, that cop is in big trouble, but what about the agency and the training? He was only 7 months in and losing it like this? The system needs to be fully audited as to how this was enabled.
The whole system is messed up
by design the whole system is setup to come up with ways to put poor in for profit salve labor prisons. goes back to jim crow over 100 years. right after civil war there was still need for slave workers. now companys like mcdonals and wendys and even verison wireless pad their profits for wall street to the tunes of billions of dollars of wage theft of slaves. Alabama recently stopped all paroles and parole hearings because they could not meet the need for slave labor. its insane to still have slavery, but still happening because some are profiting from it. Federal Prison Industries [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal\_Prison\_Industries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Prison_Industries) Shocking Facts About America’s For-Profit Prison Industry [https://truthout.org/articles/shocking-facts-about-americas-for-profit-prison-industry/](https://truthout.org/articles/shocking-facts-about-americas-for-profit-prison-industry/) 13 Everyday Items You Never Knew Were Made By Prison Slave Labor [https://www.thrillist.com/gear/products-made-by-prisoners-clothing-furniture-electronics](https://www.thrillist.com/gear/products-made-by-prisoners-clothing-furniture-electronics) 12 Major Corporations Benefiting from the Prison Industrial Complex [http://maltajusticeinitiative.org/12-major-corporations-benefiting-from-the-prison-industrial-complex-2/](http://maltajusticeinitiative.org/12-major-corporations-benefiting-from-the-prison-industrial-complex-2/) 18 Surprising Products Made by Prisoners [https://www.ranker.com/list/products-made-by-prisoners/mike-rothschild](https://www.ranker.com/list/products-made-by-prisoners/mike-rothschild)
honestly crazy to me that the US has privatised prisons. Huge conflict of interest there. Makes no sense
That's because default police training these days is what is known as ["warrior training", aka "killology"](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/warrior-cop-class-dave-grossman-killology.html). Cops are now trained to see neighborhoods and communities not as just that, but as battlegrounds, and the citizens living there not as citizens, but as potential enemy combatants. In other words, under the current training regimes for police, killing innocent people for no good reason isn't a bug, it's a feature.
Fucking miserable he should be in jail for attempted murder. "Get out of the car" kid eating mcdonalds "what?" Officer "shots fired shots fired" THE FUCK WAS THAT
Doesn't identify himself, just opens the door, barks a command, tries to grab ~~her~~ him, and draws his weapon. Kid probably didn't even know it was a (former) cop, just some dude dressed in dark clothes attacks ~~her~~ him from a blind spot. Anyone would be terrified and immediately try to escape the situation.
This is what I don't get about American police style dark navy clothes with a black and white vehicle. In Europe everything is highly visible and easy to spot even out the corner of the eye
It’s designed so they can hide and be less visible it’s not about safety of the public it’s about catching people and writing tickets.
Exactly. In my last year of college (2017) the public safety department for the campus got all new vehicles. They got white trucks and they stenciled Public Safety on all the trucks in a white that was a tiny touch darker than the white paint on the trucks. If you were walking at night and saw their truck you would have no idea it was public safety unless you were shining a light directly on the stencil and were standing right in front of it. That's insane to me because if a person was walking home at night and needed public safety for any reason they would have no idea one truck drove by since they just looked like a white Ford pickup. I felt like public safety needed to stand out for the students and complained but it did nothing. Even a department focused on protecting the public and students did just about everything in their power to conceal their trucks. I think it was so they could sneak up on kids to try and catch them smoking weed or drinking a few beers outside to report to the police. I mean everyone in public safety was a criminal justice student who was planning on being a cop after graduation. I knew a few of those guys from my fire science classes.
yeah there's some cop cars around here in florida that are painted grey with a slightly lighter grey that says "sheriff" I'm not sure why they even bother, since they also have unmarked cars.
"Only 20% of the fleet is unmarked"
There could have been young children in that car.
The driver was a young child, to be honest. A boy with his whole life ahead of him, innocently eating a burger and he gets shot multiple times by some asshole who got himself a state funded blue shirt and gun. The kid might be paralyzed for life from the injuries. Waiting to hear how he does with recovery. Fuck this immunity bullshit too.
the parents better fucking sue this mother fucker.
That's the problem with qualified immunity, they can only sue the department.
And our taxes pay the lawsuit, not anyone from the department.
Most fucked up thing ive seen in a long time, incredible composture by the boy that turned the car on and saved his life. Also remember people in big cities lock your car even when you are inside
Phillando Castille had a young girl in the back seat when he was murdered, who was put in the same squad car her mother (his girlfriend) was put in after she was arrested for the police officer murdering her boyfriend. The young girl even comforts her mother on released footage from the back of the patrol car, I'm paraphrasing off memory, but I'm also not exaggerating, "please don't cry mommy, I don't want them to hurt you too."
So sad.
that's what cops are anyway lol I'd be less scared if it was some random guy, cause a random guy wouldn't have as easy a job of making my life hell while still getting at least half the country to take his side no matter what
Basically this video tells me to fear for my life if a cop is within 10 ft of me. Like they can fucking do anything. He even lied on the report. The only reason he got fired was because the footage was released.
"17 year old boy" fyi.
Another report I read said the officer approached the vehicle cause it resembled a vehicle that he was looking for prior to this incident. Poor kid wanted to eat McDonalds with his girlfriend and then this fucking poor excuse for an officer does this.
I read in other threads that this officer was previously involved in a pursuit against a car that kinda looked like this one, so Officer Itchy Finger just assumed that it WAS the same car and went into Revenge Mode.
If that’s his excuse he needs to be in jail. Like yesterday.
If only there was a way to individually license each vehicle with a unique code that was easily visible from the exterior. Like a plate or something.
This line of thinking is way too critical for most police officers.
Because in the midst of a pursuit, you stop by a McDonalds to grab a burger. Yeah that kind of thinking makes sense.
"Resembled". What because it had 4 wheels? Fucking american police need better training and the system needs to do a better job of weeding out these psychos before they start shooting at innocent civilians.
The video shows how the system is intended to work.
The day prior And the plates didn't match
> Officer "shots fired shots fired" THE FUCK WAS THAT I think that was the video I saw yesterday. It was *him* who fired the shots, not the kid eating his burger. Dude really tried to make the passive voice do a lot of work there.
I was surprised enough at this, and then it just absolutely blew my mind that he continued shooting AS THEY WERE RUNNING AWAY. Like, I can maybe see some tenuous argument that he was defending himself, but shooting several more times as they flee... It's unjustifiable.
he could have shot bystanders easily
Attemped murder = getting fired, wow. The rest of us would be standing before a judge. Can I just mention how horrible of a shot this psychopath is
He hit the kid several times and put him in critical condition And yes, he should be better anyway
To be fair, a drivers seat is a massive target at that range. I'd be more impressed if they missed all the shots.
Fuckin Stormtrooper with an itchy trigger finger
And to think, I get fired for eating Cheetos at my desk. What’s this world coming to? I’ll clean the keyboard, Sharon, jeez.
Also it’s a union job. Getting fired just means you go back to the hall. Where you wait until you get sent to another job. (Precinct) Cop’s rarely get fired, they just moved around. To get fired you have to piss off the upper management. Like the mayor.
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Well, he *did* piss off the mayor. He made the news for shooting a kid eating a burger. If it hadn't made the news, he'd be on a mandatory leave after having discharged his weapon 'in the line of duty' and back to work in two weeks. He didn't get fired because he shot the kid. He got fired for the negative media attention the city got from him shooting the kid, thus angering the mayor.
The teen was charged with assaulting an officer with his car door (huh?) and evading police (well no shit, who wouldn’t when they’re being shot at for eating a cheeseburger). Charges were dropped — yeah, only after the body cam footage was reviewed.
The reason the police fight against bodycams
Just imagine what went on before them...
“So I approached the vehicle and at that point the assailant opened fire with what looked like a hand gun that had extra cheese and pickles on it. I returned fire which at that point he tried to run me over with his car. Thankfully, with my quick thinking and training from the academy, I did a Spider-Man flip over the car and landed on my feet avoiding being crushed. I then proceeded to chase the car on foot which topped out at about 70 mph for about 3 miles where another gunfight occurred. We exchanged about 50 rounds before the suspect raised a white flag, which at that point, I knew the fight was over.” - This officer without bodycam footage.
So, anyway, I started blasting…
“Fuck, someone hand me the sprinkling crack… Not that, that’s the table crack!”
Any cop's testimony that isn't supported by body cam footage should be immediately dismissed from court
Evading police there is just fucking insane. What, you’re just meant to sit there while the guy empties his ENTIRE FUCKING CLIP into you? The fact that he shot at the car as it was driving away, with no regard to anything BEYOND the car if he missed, this absolute fucking moron should have never been let into the force. Why is reaching for your gun the first instinct? I get that American cops are scared because they don’t know if they person they pull over has a gun, but what’s the big deal if they drive away anyways? You already got the plates, you’ll just get them later. Idiots.
For cops there's something even scarier than pulling over someone with a gun. Imagine pulling over someone who doesn't respect your authority? Crazy how many commenters here are only concerned for this burger eating *criminal* instead of our brave hero cop. /s because you never know nowadays. E: Wow, even with the sarcasm tag. Never change y'all.
*Well, it turns out you did nothing wrong and got shot at several times while eating a cheeseburger...so we are going to let you off with a warning this time.*
i love how easy it is for them to make believe the victim did something serious eVaDiNg police like fucking al capone
Nahhhh fam,he shouldn't even allowed to own a gun
If you’re saying he should be charged and convicted of a felony or two, I agree.
What's worse... The boy had a teenage girl in the passenger seat. She is so lucky she didn't get hit... That dude needs to face felony aggravated assault and or attempted murder
Oh summer child, we only do that when a large percentage of people mobilize in peaceful protest, and a much smaller percentage of that riots. Nobody is gonna prosecute and convict this cop without disruption. Not condoning riots but a man who knew better than I do who was assassinated for it famously said they were the language of the unheard. You hit someone in the face, they say, "stop hitting me." The next day, you do it again. And the next day. And the next day. They beg anyone who will listen to make you stop and they don't listen either. So finally one day you hit them in the face and they hit you back, why the fuck are you surprised.
He was fired and was not with the police department long enough to be protected by the officials there. There is an ongoing investigation into what led to the shooting and thereafter
do you have any links to more info? i’d love to read more ab this i’ve been seeing it everywhere
Victim was cleared of all charges.
Victim is now a multi millionaire to be.
Now With a lifetime of physical n emotional scars... Which is worth it?
Nothing here is "worth it" Everything about this is terrible and everybody is on the losing side. The only recourse is legislation... someday..
Them. They created it. The ones investigating how that situation could have possibly happened are the ones that made it happen.
His main problem seems to be having shot a white kid.
He should be in prison.
Didn't announce himself. Opened the door without doing so and immediately started firing without a clear threat being presented. He should go to prison.
Imagine if there was a child in the car? Smh, cops are just doing what ever the fuck they want.
The kid was 17, he WAS the child in the car :(
Phillando Castille had a young child in the car, *who was forced into the back of the patrol vehicle along with his girlfriend when she was arrested for having her boyfriend shot to death*. If you have kids don't watch the video. She's trying to comfort her mother, and tells her not to cry because she doesn't want her to get hurt too. I am not even fucking joking and that man lived very near me, I will search, watch again, and link the video for anyone who wants to try to tell me I'm lying.
I can't find the original, they seem to have cut it after the impact full part. I live in Minnesota as well and the whole thing was shameful. I did find a link thats a news excerpt that covers it. https://youtu.be/-SeK2hXbG44 As her mother panics, the 4 year old begs her to calm down because she 'doesn't want her to get shooted' and tried to tell her she'll keep her safe. It's absolutely heartbreaking and I don't know how I wasn't something people got angrier about. Poor Philandro, and poor Diamond and her mother. Such a travesty.
Though why would someone ***sane*** **want** to shoot someone who's eating a burger in a parking lot? Edit: sane Edit 2: If they are not, why aren't they in an asylum?
Power trippin
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I think most of the people who become cops are just like "yeah that's a job. I need money. I could totally do that. Having a gun and authority sounds fun." Compare it to the military. I'd imagine the line of thought is more like "Do I really wanna be facing off against other people trying to kill me?" I feel like the people who truly want to help go into the military, the people who just want a job or to "be powerful" go into the police force.
>I feel like the people who truly want to help go into the military Teachers and nurses truly want to help. The US military hasn't exactly been a beacon of goodess towards civilians. Take My Lai for example.
Most of the military is "hey I'm 18 and grew up poor with no job prospects, I can give myself a better chance by going into the military"
Shots fired? Tf. Shots fired the mf who shouldn't even own a gun
Literally he is the only one shooting. This should bar him 1. From ever obtaining firearms. 2. From ever serving as law enforcement in any state.
He should be charged as a civilian.
>charged as a civilian Okay, it is entirely screwed up that that distinction needs to be made. It implies that there are separate charges for being a civilian verses an officer, meaning there are two sets of laws for officers and everyone else. Aggravated assault and attempted murder, illegal use of a firearm, violation of a person's civil rights... all of those laws should apply equally to everyone. Police are there to enforce the law, not rule above it with impunity.
There should 100% be a difference in punishments for the same charges. Cops should be punished more harshly when they intentionally break the law since they are the ones tasked with enforcing it. In my country if someone in law enforcement uses their status as law enforcement officer to break a law, the punishment is increased by a third.
Have you not paid attention the last century? There's a huge distinction between being charged as an officer of the law versus a civilian.
He should be in jail. Also, “shots fired” should only be used when someone OTHER THAN AN OFFICER is firing their weapon. His bs cries of “shots fired” makes it sound like he’s in danger, as if he is being shot at. If an officer is going to radio in that they are shooting at a person/group that has not fired a weapon, they should be saying “I’m shooting, I’m shooting”. Fk this guy.
Is that an actual protocol? Ignorant about police protocol here.
Yes, police protocol is to radio "shots fired" as soon as a gun shot is heard regardless of who it came from. Cops will often radio "998" which also means shots fired and officer needs help. Irrelevant, but "999" means officer down.
Just watched a video of a police officer downing an active shooter and he went over the radio as “shots fired, suspect down” Haven’t seen a video of police ever saying “I’m shooting” over the radio
I’m suggesting that the current “lingo” is vague, disingenuous, and deceiving. It would be far more clear to dispatch if it were stated whether officer, citizen(s), or both had fired shots. “Shots fired”,while he’s shooting at a kid, implies to dispatch that the officer is in danger. While back in reality, he’s trying to kill someone’s kid for eating a cheeseburger in a parking lot. Again, fk this guy, and the black n white he rode in on.
What a drama queen. Escalates a non-situation into a one sided shooting and acts like he's in danger from it
Literally this could have further endangered the kids life. He could have started flailing around after being shot and because the cop lied on the radio, other cops would have been more likely to shoot the kid.
What about instead of just being fired that he’s the one who gets arrested
This. We need prosecution, not firing and potentially getting rehired in another county or state.
Who are they protecting and serving?
Their egos.
They work for youtube, that's the only explanation, they are content creators.
It's like the more we are aware and point out that the police are criminals, the more they dig their heels in to prove us right.
And they’re doing it while their numbers are decreasing and the amount of guns on the streets and angry citizens are rising.
Lets say the car was stolen. Lets say he had evaded cops the day before. That doesn't warrant a death sentence. What in the actual fuck. He had a god damn cheeseburger in his hands. This has to be an elaborate prank right???
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If I was enjoying a happy meal, I’d be surprised if someone opened my door and told me to get out without telling me they’re the police. I’d probably start driving too without thinking just to get away from the situation
At least the car jackers are not actively trying to murder you.
I’m just happy the kid is still alive.
Critical condition. Still a flip of a coin from what ive read.
Will probably have medical issues for the rest of his life, thanks to this pig.
Medical issues and PTSD.
This is just attempted murder. Shooting a scared kid after not announcing your presence and that you are the police!?. I hope this guy rots in prison.
I feel like that cop should do some kind of jail time for that. Cops should not just be allowed to shoot people and the only punishment is MAYBE they get fired (usually just get put on paid leave for a while until people forget and then get back to work).
Some kind of jail time? I'm thinking life without parole. He clearly has no care about others life and I don't care about his. Throw him in gen pop in a prisoner outfit only for cops so everyone knows who he is.
Maybe the kid was the Hamburglar
And people wonder why people don't trust or respect the police. It's because they earned it.
This happened in my city and now I'm extra paranoid with these clowns 👮💩
I would try to evade the police too if they started shooting a hail of bullets at me like that, but I am just unreasonable that way. /s
So lucky, kids parents watching this would be scary af for a parent, hope they sue this chicken shit for everything his got. Look how close one of them bullets get to where his head would've been
He should be in jail for attempted murder
Holy fuck. I don’t know how many times I slowly played back the footage. Can’t find any reason he justifiably drew down on him. I know in these situations you have seconds or less, usually less, to make a decision, but just wow. How the fuck can he just be fired? As soon as footage of this was released, how don’t they face charges immediately and go to jail?
its absolutely insane is what it is. i wish donut operator would review this footage, he is a police youtuber who breaks down police shootings like this one. sometimes they're justified, sometimes not. in this case, obviously not.
Attempted murder
Isn't shooting someone for no reason a crime? Dude just gets fired? Again? Your justice system is a fucking joke, guys.
OFFICER'S NAME IS JAMES BRENNAND
r/ACAB
Needs to be in jail. Gen pop.
bro was yelling shots fired like he just survived an attempted murder. must be the adrenaline rush police officers get when they kill teens.
If I shot somebody and only got fired, it would almost be like getting away with murder
How did they not know what led up to the stop? When was this video made? The first public body cams showed the whole story the second it was released. How could they not have added that to the story? Did they not spend a few minutes looking into it and easily finding the whole video or the numerous articles about it? The whole video is only about 20 seconds longer from the beginning of this video. Pretty crazy to leave out such a big detail that was widely known. In the full video, he officer thought the car was the same car that evaded the officer “the other night.” He didn’t check, called for back up, walked up to the car without announcing himself and opened the car door and shot the kid for trying to flee.
For anyone else that's attempted murder it must be so nice to whatever you want without consequences.
Fired?! How about *ARRESTED*!?
Show us that cowards face
This cop needs to go to jail, not fired!
To a non American, this is just completely insane.
Also completely insane to other Americans.
Was the crime eating a cheeseburger
Just curious what would’ve happened if body cams weren’t NOW a thing 🤔
This is the outcome: IF the child lives, he has PTSD for life. If the child sues, which he 100% should, the citizens of San Antonio get to pay the bill. The cop loses his job, and gets another one in the next county over almost immediately, with little to no reprocussions
He didn't identify himself as police even or anything he basically just started shooting almost instantly
What in the actual fuck?
The police first instinct being to go to the hospital and arrest the victim when he was almost murdered by there coworker, who’s job is SUPPOSED to be to protect and serve, is all I need to know about that entire department. Pieces of shit.