(06-16-2020, 11:48 AM)mikesez Wrote: An officer should only shoot to end an immediate threat to his own life, or a bystander's life.
when Mr Brooks ran off with that non-lethal weapon in his hand, by definition, he was not a threat to anyone's life.
It is a big stretch to insist that because the police officer had a gun, the suspect might use the taser to take the gun.
But there were two officers there. If the suspect managed to tase one of them, the other one would have been able to prevent the suspect from closing in and taking the gun, by using his own taser, or his own nightstick, or even by drawing his own pistol and shouting "don't move!"
Each of these choices gives the suspect another chance to live, without endangering anyone else's life.

Give it up man, the cops had no other choice than to use his back as target practice. The cop even seemed proud that "he got him".

This cop has had12 charges including charges of excessive use of force with a firearm. Averaged 2 per year ... He was probably going to kill someone sooner or later (we are ALSO allowed to makeup accusations, and possibilities).

Quote:Those charges include five vehicle accidents, four citizen complaints, a firearm discharge in August 2015, and an allegation of excessive use of force with a gun in 2017 that resulted in him only receiving a reprimand.

https://thegrio.com/2020/06/16/atlanta-c...omplaints/

So bad cop. Maybe I missed it, but how many charges has the victim had before his death by cop?

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