Or............
Jesus Spaz, the dude LITERALLY fell asleep at the wheel he was so drunk, he was about to kill someone. Those aren’t even remotely close comparisons you’re making because the probability of them happening are very low and there is no possible way to avoid them, whereas it’s DEFINITELY possible for a man to not resist arrest, fight with some cops, steal one of their tasers, and running away while firing it at one of them. That is solely the fault of the criminal here, it’s not some random quantum occurrence that just happens at random, these aren’t simply random what-if’s.
Using a weapon of any sort raises it to aggravated assault, which is a felony.
U r looking at the trees and as you grow older, experienced more, travelled, climbed the social ladder, made ur mark in the corporate world, you'll have a helicopter view of things and those trees are not the only thing you see.
I should be the one giving you that analogy lol you couldn’t connect how the dude possibly killing someone wasn’t just a ‘what-if’ possibility and sad it as completely unrelated from the incident at hand and why the cops had to do what they did lmao
Does anyone understands what this kid is trying to say here?
The guy was shot in the back as he was turning around firing a weapon at him. So if a guy stands with his back to you and turns and fires a gun at you, and you shoot him, that's murder?
I’m responding to you exactly as you responded to me. Spaz man, your posts have really gone down the ****ter in the past 2 years or so. Work on your social skills.
Let’s be honest here; he wasn’t reaching for the taser, he was reaching for the gun. He just happened to grab the taser instead bc he thought it was a gun. That dude had intent to kill.
Normally the cops get to blow you away for pointing a stick at them. Sometimes they kill people for answering the door with a remote control in their hand or an xbox controller. And thanks to police unions, they get away with it. But this time, they can't claim that they thought the taser was a lethal weapon, because it was their taser, and he had just stolen it from them. And watch the video, they shoot him in the back after he has fired the taser harmlessly over their heads, and then turned to continue running. That cop was angry he just got his ass kicked in a 2 on 1 fight and had his stuff stolen, so he killed the guy at the first very flimsy excuse that presented itself.
To arrest an intoxicated criminal. Who fought against him and his partner. Who stole his weaponry. Who intended to use it against them.
That's the first time I've heard anyone suggest the Brooks incident was more flagrant than the Floyd case. In the latter, Floyd continued to say he couldn't breathe and that they were killing him while Chauvin continued to kneel on his neck. It was almost like he was serving as his own witness. But Chauvin was more interested in being obstinate than any sort of harm that he was doing, and the guy almost singlehandedly destroyed the country.
Prisoners have been stripped of their constitutional rights by the court already, so it is a poor comparison.
Unless ole ted has a knife in his hand and a victim in his sights, then yes it is murder to shoot him in the back. The right of self defense is transferrable, but you have to have someone from whom it will transfer.
So if I rob a bank and the police come storming in, I can just turn my back to them and ran backwards and they technically aren’t allowed to do anything to me?
I am only speaking in terms of the law, and not morals. Law school beats the morals out of you, in an academic sense.
You'll want to raise your hands in the air, too. They'll probably still shoot you, but the hands in the air will help your relatives get some money later from your wrongful death lawsuit.
It’s not murder because he pointed a taser at them while fleeing. A lot of people on this forum seem to not mention the fact he was running away BUT also pointed a taser at them. That is considered a threat in my book. The only unknown I’ve been very curious about Is how many projectile cartridges where in the taser. Most tasers have 1 on the reload. Brooks wasn’t simply running away. He made himself a threat by POINTING a taser at cops. You can easily argue your life was in danger. 100 percent not murder in my opinion. Murder would of been if they simply shot him for NO reason whatsoever with no threat present. There was a THREAT present in this. Everyone here keeps saying he was simply running away, smh, if your gonna day that YOU have to mention he pointed the taser at cops because that is the meat and potatoes of this cop shooting in my opinion: how lethal could of that taser been? It could of easily incapacitated the officer, and based on Brooks’ behavior, wouldn’t be shocked if he took the downed cops firearm after that. Murder is ludicrous in my opinion. Maybe manslaughter but I think that’s even a stretch.
