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Originally Posted by Zulu29
What reputable evidence have you seen?
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Sorry, I've been gone a couple days.
1. He was unarmed.
2. The cop fired 10 rounds.
3. The autopsy revealed that the shots were not close range, which I understand, means at least 12''. Impossible to determine range outside of that, whether it was 2 feet or 50 feet. CSI has apparently been lying to me.
4. There was no incident report.
5. The police force completely militarized to react to a protest, which escalated the situation way more than was necessary.
Now, I'm not saying that the cop is obviously guilty of race-based, rage induced murder. But I am saying that he's guilty of incompetence leading to the death of an unarmed man, which I believe should be at least manslaughter.
I talked to my buddy the other day, who is a cop that primarily works in downtown Edmonton, so he sees a lot of things. I asked him if he could imagine a scenario where this could have happened with him, and he said their procedures would never have allowed the situation to escalate to the point where he would have to empty 10 rounds into someone. The video that Flash showed earlier also shows a competent takedown in Canada, which IIRC included one shot. In that case I don't even think it was a real bullet, but that's irrelevant to my point.
Competent officers are able to assess a situation before placing themselves into it, they're able to control a situation once they are in it, and by and large they are able to perform their duty without emptying 10 rounds into an unarmed man. The actions of this one officer as well as the police force in responding to protests illustrate to me that we have both an incompetent officer and police force as a whole.
This was just an escalation of a mess that should have been avoided.
I don't know what worries me the most though. The fact that this happened and seems to happen way more than it should in the states, or the fact that so many here are fine with the fact that a police force is free to act this way.