It doesn’t matter what your perception of what you took from a video. Put yourself in the cops mindset. Officers were in a physical struggle with an armed suspect when a gun was perceived and the word “gun” was shouted. Under settled self-defense law, officers are entitled to rely on fellow officers’ reasonable perceptions. They do not have to personally confirm the threat.
Once a firearm appears during active resistance, the legal standard is simple: reasonable perception of imminent deadly force. That standard was met here. Freeze-frame activism doesn’t override real-time dynamics, and the law does not require officers to wait to be shot. This was a tragic—but lawful—use of force.
They instigated the altercation, they removed his gun.
This is such an insane take that you think this situations outcome is reasonable. It went from him helping a lady up to getting manhandled from behind to executed.
There was zero threat of deadly force, where was it? if thats the case anyone they try to arrest that legal carries could be shot. Have you not seen the protests against covid? guys screaming in cops faces with guns in their hands.
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