[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by valo403

I'm not sure I agree with that. Video of the incident is probably the best non-opinion evidence we'll ever see. There will be testimony that sheds some light to aspects of the video, but I can't think of anything that comes close to the evidentiary value of the video itself.

I don't see the problem with people coming to conclusions based upon available evidence where they explicitly say 'this is based on available evidence and may change when more evidence comes out'.

His first summation:

Originally Posted by polak

Yeah, I don't buy that the guy was a serious threat to anyone unless he had something else with him and considering that they continued to yell "drop the knife", I don't think that was the case.

The guy had a knife. A knife. You can't harm anyone with a knife unless they're within arms reach. Considering he was far from within arms reach and on an empty bus, he was not a threat that justified lethal force.

Just a trigger happy cop that will most likely be protected by the system.

As for the kid, I have absolutely zero sympathy for him. He's the idiot who put himself in that situation.

There will always be information that comes out and if the officer acted outside the bounds of accepted response then he should face the appropriate consequences.

I just feel that both the deceased and the office deserve a proper investigation.