True, but uh, they knew he had no gun, otherwise they woudn't have let him go walking around like that...I tws clear as day, that wasn't a gun...And since there is no audio, he could have been pointing and saying something, to make is point...But, his ass should have ut his hands over his head and lie down. but criminals are criminals, because they don't think like the rest of us.
What makes you think he was a criminal? Because he got shot in the back 8 times by police? What was his crime?
The man
is was Marquise Hudspeth, and his "crime", ...was going through a red light while talking on his phone. He'd lost his job a month earlier, and his wife had just kicked him out of the house due to his involvement with another woman. He was upset, distraught, and speaking with his wife on the phone at the time, crying for her to take him back, when got distracted and went through a red light. After pulling into the Circle K convenience store parking lot, he was confronted by police.
The officers blasted away, firing 15 bullets at Hudspeth's back in just a few seconds. Eight of the bullets found their target, killing Hudspeth. Critics of this shooting find fault with the police. To critics of the department, the fact that police fired only at Hudspeth's back highlights the department's most obvious failure.
"None (of the bullets) entered this man's body from the front. He was walking away," said state Rep. Ernest Baylor, D-Shreveport, who is black, as he watched the video from one of his offices not far from the site of the shooting.
Baylor acknowledged that Hudspeth acted in an "unusual" manner for someone surrounded by armed police officers, citing the way he brandished his cell phone. But Baylor maintains that the officers overreacted. "There could have been something used besides deadly force," he said.
According to Wade Schindler, criminal justice expert and adjunct professor at Tulance University, if a suspect is walking away from police officers, Louisiana state law says they cannot shoot.
