Police officer who fatally shot sobbing man temporarily rehired to apply for pension

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[–]copenseethe 14 insightful - 3 fun14 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Daniel Shaver. The cop that shot him was acquitted of all charges. Daniel Shaver was white so no cities were burned as a result.

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

beware, this is one of the saddest videos ever

[–]johnblack 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

this video is faked, no police officer issues commands like this..

[–]Red23 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Fuck off you idiot.

[–]johnblack 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

fake video..

[–]djhdlkguhaeil 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

it cuts out at the end, honestly with all the other videos I've seen I'm willing to bet that's where it goes from "oh no this is awful" to "oh... right, yeah that shooting makes sense"

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

You are well conditioned to see that video and somehow you still cling to the idea that had to somehow be okay.

[–]djhdlkguhaeil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnKYL7AWNQo

[–]NodeIndependent 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The kid executes a perfect gun grab once he crawls to within 'can't miss' range, but he was faking them out. He didn't really still have a gun.

The guns they had been exhibiting out the hotel room window - drawing police to a potentially active shooter scene - were still back in the room.

What he was probably doing was retardedly grabbing where his gun would be to pull up his pants. Unfortunate move on his part, because it looked like exactly how the gun comes out in all those police body-cam videos. You wouldn't think they'd just reach for and grab their weapon while the cops are looking right at them, but they do.

Kid could have walked away from that with a felony stupidity charge.

[–]Zapped 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Also, I think this guy was drunk, which never helps in decision making.

[–]NodeIndependent 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I still think some kind of 'immobilizing' alternative to shooting people should be possible, although there are a lot of people we obviously want to shoot.

Maybe a kind of sticky net? Or even a tranquilizer dart, where they need to be subdued, but not necessarily killed. Although cops wouldn't necessarily carry extra weapons or equipment as a matter of course. Plus, is this a problem we really want to solve.

[–]Zapped 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think anything used to subdue a person has the potential to be fatal in certain circumstances, but yeah, ideally something like a taser or pepper spray or an immobility device would be better than firearms.