If I'm that guy's partner, I am never riding with him again. What if he had leaned forward to get a better look at the lady at the exact moment the other guy pulled the trigger?
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I'm gonna go WAY out on a limb and say you'd probably have a toe tag at the morgue.
I keep just hoping there's some rationale here, but just like on the basis of what I know with the Castile case in the same state, I literally cannot find any. I worked a year as LEO on a military installation. I understand that you get 'startled,' but that's NOT justification for this. You can't just shoot because you're startled. I mean at least in most of these cases - whatever folks thought - one could make the argument of danger for the officer (the Ferguson case in particular).
And fwiw CNN finally got with the program several days late, finally reporting who did the shooting multiple days after everyone else was already telling us.
I have no particular reaction on the basis of the color of the people involved because that literally shouldn't be our concern anyway. The woman is still dead, nothing indicates she acted in any way inappropriately, and what this cop did I cannot make sense of in any sort of way. I think some of the hateful stuff I read online ("he was invoking Sharia") is incredibly unfair. Does anyone really think this is the first time he had to deal with a white American woman given he was on the police force in a large city for over two years?
This appears to me to be one of those cases where the officer could unquestionably be held for...well, I'm not a lawyer but perhaps manslaughter or negligent homicide (whatever the distinctions in those laws). I try to support LEO because God knows we need them (society without them would be far worse), but cases like this make it very difficult.
I'm led by the evidence thus far to conclude the officer was totally in the wrong (and reserve the right to change my mind if other evidence comes to light).