The police shooting of an unarmed 17-year-old eating in his car at a McDonald’s parking lot last week was “not justified” and authorities expect to file criminal charges against the officer by the end of the week, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said Tuesday.
“The video was horrific,” the chief told CNN’s Brianna Keilar. “There is no question in anybody’s mind looking at that video that the shooting is not justified.”
McManus said he recognized an issue immediately upon arriving to the scene of the October 2 shooting, based on the location of the bullet holes. -snip
Re: San Antonio police shoot 17yo armed with a hamburger
I saw the same video you did.
What he was holding isn't the issue, the driver behavior is. It looked to me like the driver was making a sudden movement.
Officers tell people to put their hands where they can see them for a reason, that reason being they won't risk you pulling a gun on them.
Doesn't matter if it's a phone or wallet or burger, there are people who DO pull guns on cops; and they have no way to tell who's who, which is why you follow instructions.
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The San Antonio Police Chief disagrees with your laymen's assessment of the situation. The 17yo driver is the victim here, not the police officer who tried to murder him.
Could end up being murder, as the kid is still in critical care.
Re: Re: San Antonio police shoot 17yo armed with a hamburger
That might be your experience with policemen, but it's important for you to realize that a person of color does not have the same experience with police with you do at all. They do not have a history of following directions saving them from violence.
I don't remember, you weren't one of the ones saying Ahmed arbery shouldn't have tried to fight the hillbillies chasing him in a truck were you?
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I don't think cdtm was one of the Trumpers who tried to spin justifications for Arbery's lynching/murder, while inventing fiction that Arbery was fleeing from a crime.
That was DDM, Surt, Ethneo and then later Broly reversed himself and joined in.
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Cop never actually told him any instructions except "get out of the car". Never told him to show hands, and the driver was switching his car off.
I still say he could reasonably have been going for a weapon, but the cop didn't manage the situation.
So yeah, this is entirely his fault.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
I admit I do have a bias towards law enforcement, if only because most ignore the reasons they act as they do.
Those reasons being the fact we live in a society that likes to argue and refuses to listen, which just makes it impossible to tell who's about to flip out on you. It's an unfair standard that nobody on earth can get right 100% of the time.
And while they chose a job puts them in danger, they won't want to get shot any more then we do. But they roll the dice far more often, and all those cop killings that get reported hit them harder then us.
I know I sure couldn't do their job.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Oct 11th, 2022 04:34 PM
