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he was avoiding the punishment of being arrested by resisting arrest. At some point he was struggling for a gun that was on him. The cop said GUN GUN.. don't Fing move and he kept moving for the gun and boom shot. THE PUNISHMENT IS BEING ARRESTED UNLESS YOU RESIST TO THE POINT YOU PUT THE LIVES OF THOSE COPS AND ALL AROUND AT RISK BY GOING FOR THE GUN AND THEN DEATH IS THE PUNISHMENT


An officer has the right to defend themselves when someone they are trying to arrest is resisting. In this case that someone had a gun and by all reports was going for the gun. You can debate this all you like but the camera angles we are provided with do not show the whole story because the car hid the mans right arm. What we do know is the cops don't have complete control of him, and we know this because the right side of his body is basically under the car.



(2)When necessarily committed in retaking felons who have escaped; or

(3)When necessarily committed in arresting felons fleeing from justice. However, this subsection shall not constitute a defense in any civil action for damages brought for the wrongful use of deadly force unless the use of deadly force was necessary to prevent the arrest from being defeated by such flight and, when feasible, some warning had been given, and:

(a)The officer reasonably believes that the fleeing felon poses a threat of death or serious physical harm to the officer or others; or

(b)The officer reasonably believes that the fleeing felon has committed a crime involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious physical harm to another person.


There is a law backing it up. When this case is investigated they will see if it was a wrongful use of force. Considering the suspect had a gun, threatened people, had a long rap sheet, had resisted as far as he did at that point, we can't be sure his right arm wasn't going for the gun, and finally was warned not to FING move.


source : <a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0700-0799/0776/0776.html'>http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0700-0799/0776/0776.html</a>



Don't get me wrong I don't want Cops going around killing people. What I do want is people to realize this person dug his own grave by his lifetime of actions that lead him to illegally possess a firearm, then he threatened someone with it. When the police came to arrest him he resisted to the point of struggling on the ground, when he was obviously beat instead of giving up he goes for the gun while the officer says not to move.

You paint the picture that the cops had to shoot him (mind you multiple times at point blank range) while simultaneously admitting the footage is inconclusive regarding him actually going for the weapon. Then you cite law about a fleeing felon when the perp was not fleeing. You are not a lawyer. Either the video is clear or it is not. You also have no proof they knew he was a felon.

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