Houston PD Shoot, Kill Man While He Was on His Knees, Claims He Charged At Them

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[–]magnora7[S] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

For those who don't want to watch the 48 second video, here's what happened:

3 cops are gathered around a man on his knees about 15 feet away. They are facing each other. It's being filmed from inside a neighboring house. 2-3 cops open fire simultaneously and fire about 11 rounds in a short time. The man on his knees falls to the ground.

It looked far more like an execution than any sort of self-defense situation.

I am disgusted. This is dystopian. The police claim he had a piece of rebar and was threatening people, as if that justifies this nonsense.

[–]mharmless 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I figured this would be one of those waa waa some dirtbag got shot. It isn't. I watched this a couple of times, there are a couple of rounds early on about 5 seconds in that look justified. After getting shot trying to charge/run, the guy is on the ground on his kness, moving but not much. Then 25 seconds after those first rounds is the massive unload that kills him.

That second set of gunfire looks like an execution to me. I don't see anything to justify it, at all.