Some commentary from Free Republic regarding this incident.
To: Citizen Zed
Once he’s running away what does it matter? He wasn’t armed and he wasn’t endangering anyone at that time.
If one of our troops shot an ISIS member like this they would go to jail.
2 posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2015 3:08:07 PM by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Citizen Zed
Resisting arrest isn’t smart.
It can get you killed.
But even if you’ve just had an altercation with police if you’re running away unarmed, shooting you in the back is a bloody crime. It should NEVER happen!
5 posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2015 3:10:56 PM by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
To: Citizen Zed
It was murder. Nothing more, nothing less.
7 posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2015 3:11:33 PM by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
To: Citizen Zed
This cop should fry. From what I see.
10 posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2015 3:13:03 PM by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
To: Citizen Zed
There’s no more to the story. The unarmed guy was running away and the cop shot him in the back repeatedly. There’s no excuse for that. Case closed.
13 posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2015 3:13:46 PM by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: Citizen Zed
Yes, but what could possibly justify shooting an unarmed man in the back who is running away from you?
Not to mention carrying over the taser and dropping it near the victim’s body, so there would be evidence to support his claim that the man threatened him with a taser.
No excuse or justification for this. None. Am I wrong?
15 posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2015 3:14:12 PM by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender! REMEMBER NEDA)
To: Citizen Zed
No, there as no excuse for this. The guy was running away, he had no accomplices, and even if he had had a weapon, he didn’t have it when he was running. And he was no immediate threat to anybody.
I’m totally pro-police, but this was wrong and the police officers or police related people in my family agree.
17 posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2015 3:14:22 PM by livius
To: Citizen Zed
Executed the man. Shot him in the back running away.
No defence.
19 posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2015 3:14:45 PM by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
To: driftdiver
I agree 100%. Having grown up in the days of the old black and white TV westerns, one thing I learned is that nothing justifies shooting somebody in the back. The “good guys” just don’t do that.
25 posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2015 3:16:31 PM by FlingWingFlyer ("I want to be America's first, historical, male first lady." - Slick Willie)
To: Dutchboy88
Yes, you can see he does not have a weapon in the video. You can also see the cop coldly shoot him eight times in the back, and then casually walk over and plant a weapon on the victim.
CASE CLOSED.
27 posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2015 3:16:59 PM by dinodino
To: Citizen Zed
The suspect/victim appears to have been fleeing and unarmed. Unless those alleged facts are in contention, I am having a hard time seeing how what might, or might not have occurred before this has any bearing on the issue.
31 posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2015 3:18:45 PM by NRx (An unrepentant champion of the old order and determined foe of damnable Whiggery in all its forms.)
To: Dutchboy88
If he dropped a weapon then he didnt have it.
He was running away, his hands are in plain view.
Anyone could be running for a weapon at any time. Should everyone be shot?
32 posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2015 3:19:07 PM by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Dutchboy88
You sure like the taste of boots, don’t you?
The cop’s initial testimony (before the video came out) has already been made public. He claimed that he had to shoot the victim because the victim had his taser and the cop was in fear for his life, so he shot in self-defense.
What the video shows is that the cop is lying: his life was not in danger, the victim did not have a weapon, and the cop murdered him.
33 posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2015 3:19:08 PM by dinodino
To: Osage Orange
You want civilian union cops shooting people in the back for running away from a traffic stop?
How about what appears to be the planting of a weapon?
35 posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2015 3:19:45 PM by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
I wonder what the Liberals are saying about this incident?
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