EyeBRollin
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Georgia law only lethal force if threat of serious bodily injury is imminent. Taser is a non-lethal weapon. The only threat was to this officers ego, having him and his partners’ ass beat by a drunk guy and the theft of His taser. There’s no face saving on this one. He shot a man in the back.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.