(06-17-2020, 10:10 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(06-17-2020, 09:44 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote: That's ridiculous and incorrect.

It's apparent you have no real intent to debate in good faith. I'm confident you only want to be a contrarian. You can disagree with whether or not it should be legal, but it absolutely is by-the-book legal. The officer reacted and shot in just over a second. Google says it usually takes .25 - .3 seconds to react. That leaves just about .75 seconds for the officer to fall into the vehicle, remove his weapon, and shoot. What exactly do you think he was thinking?

I promise you, I will never sync up all the available video, slow it down, and break down the reaction times.  I won't even watch most of them. Call that bad faith if you want.

I just think when bullets hit a fleeing suspect in the back and also hit a car with bystanders in it, there's no room to debate that one of two things happened: either the cop acted outside of the law, or the law needs to be changed. Which one of those things is true depends on in-depth study of the video, and I leave that to others. You acknowledge the second possibility, that the law needs to change, and that is to your credit.
But each of us should also have our minds open about the possibility that these officers broke laws already on the books, because, now there's going to be a jury trial about it.

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(06-17-2020, 10:09 PM)JagJohn Wrote: You're a piece of [BLEEP].

He loves it when you say that.

I did open my mind to the possibility that they committed a crime until I watched the videos. I know what the law states, and the officers didn’t violate state or federal law. The only possible argument that the DA can use is that Brooks didn’t initiate the fight and thus the officers started it. So, then the officers couldn’t use deadly force against someone defending themselves. Or, the taser isn’t considered deadly force. Otherwise, the officers’ actions didn’t violate law. 

Since we know Brooks started it, it can’t be the first one. The state law specifically mentions tasers as a deadly weapon, and Howard just a couple weeks ago called it one, we know it isn’t that. This is absolute malicious prosecution.

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(06-17-2020, 04:08 PM)JackCity Wrote: https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/12...19328?s=19

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The officer who stood on his shoulders is actually testifying against them too (to save his own bacon obv)

Turns out that isn’t true. The officers attorney, Don Samuel, said he never agreed to anything. 

After taking to several Atlanta PD guys, and from hearing from other that have too, several precincts worth of officers have called in sick. Mayor Bottoms was begging surrounding jurisdictions to help, but everyone except State Patrol refused, and all they’re doing is picking up accidents.

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