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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
Sorry about the video. It's a cop in Ohio who pulled over a double murder suspect. The suspect gets out of the car and charges the cop...cop has a body cam. Cop's gun is drawn. Cop runs backwards for a long time, falls over, still doesn't shoot the guy. Amazing video. Suspect eventually gives up. So, seeing that, the I would imagine the cops could have given the screw driver guy a bit more of a chance unless they were pinned in a tight spot....which they might have been.
I think it is...the guy just committed a double homicide. Michael Brown charged a cop and apparently it was a deadly force situation.
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You're entitled to your opinion, it is the internet afterall.
But I think that's part of the issue in threads like this. Posters tend to post their judgments having little understanding of what it is they are posting about.
Each encounter is treated based on a set of facts at the time of the encounter. Police can't shoot someone based on what the individual has done in the past (even recent past). Will it change the tactics of the encounter? Ofcourse. But police still must make a decision based on what they are presented with at the time of the encounter. If deadly force can not be articulated, it simply isn't an option.