Quote:Do you have any facts saying that he did think the driver was impaired? Because all the article says is that he was "driving erratically", and that's a routine traffic stop. Yes, he should have waited for a marked car to catch up.

 

I wouldn't expect a former LEO to make any real effort to understand (or even acknowledge) the major problems facing police departments today--problems created by the unchecked actions of their own officers--finally being brought to light through platforms as simple as a YouTube video of an officer lying his way through a traffic stop, or as major as national news proceedings about yet another white cop murdering yet another black man. The talking points you've thrown out there about judgment and split-second decisions are the same talking points that the police apologists use, ignoring that at the end of the day, one party in the dispute has a gun and the other does not, and drawing and using that gun against an unarmed man is always, <i>always</i> the wrong decision for a police officer to make. If fear of being the next big national news story was enough to keep the detective from pulling his gun on an unarmed man, good. A life was saved, it's just not the life you wanted spared.