Its incredible how these police shootings take on a life of their own. They make it sound like the “suspect” (the cops had already tried and convicted him and determined summary execution was the appropriate response) “fired a shot” at the cop when he was outside his car door writing a ticket. Uh-huh. From the video at CBS you see Jayland Walker wing a single shot out his car window as he speeds down the freeway. He wasn’t going to hit jack.
Then when they get to residential streets you see the cops insanely out of control (with their whoopee whoopee lights and sirens going full bore) just yelling at the guy at the top of their lungs, making damn sure the situation doesn’t deescalate and that they get the shooting they want. You can see from the bodycam footage the cop in the center scares the hell out of the cops in front of him.
He’s just firing as fast as he can (‘a mag dump’) and cops are at most 2 feet from his line of fire. They lookj back at him like “what the hell are you doing?” It doesn’t matter a damn to the cops that the gun is sitting in the car. And that the running suspect is unarmed. They’re already making excuses “he was reaching towards his waist”.
Over 50 years of continuous war our soldiers were put under more and more restrictive “rules of engagement”. You couldn’t just see the enemy and start firing. They had to be a threat or have weapons. To they had to be firing at you. To it couldn’t just be random firing it had to be directed and be a threat to you. These cops are taking a random shot out of a speeding car and making it out like he was still a threat when he was running away unarmed.
Most people aren’t wearing a ski mask at night in late June in Ohio, so there’s a real good chance Tyrone was up to no good. Chances are he wasn’t just jogging home from choir practice. But just because he had a Glock 17 on the car seat, does not mean he is a direct threat to you or anybody else when he is running away unarmed. I don’t care if your heart rate was 160 and your adrenaline glands were dumping buckets into your bloodstream. At the time you executed him he was unarmed. You’re cops not executioners.
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