RE: Fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks
June 17, 2020 at 5:52 pm
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2020 at 5:53 pm by LadyForCamus.)
(June 17, 2020 at 5:33 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(June 17, 2020 at 5:27 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: This whole incident can be boiled down to a police officer’s hurt ego after letting a suspect get away with his weapon. Misdirected anger, plain and simple.
^^^^^^^^^ BINGO!
Far too much of police training nationwide is to assume the worst and dominate first.
I will tell you though, any good defense lawyer will try to argue, "If he was willing to grab at my weapon, and assault me, who is to say if he got away he wouldn't take someone hostage or harm someone else?"
Doesn't wash with me regardless, but that is what his lawyer might argue. If I were a prosecutor I'd point out the 47 minutes where they were getting along before the attempted arrest. I'd also point out other cases where people resisted and still made it to jail.
And the rebuttal to that defense would be that the officers were the ones who reached for the taser first, and maybe Brooks simply didn’t want to be tased. I see no reason or evidence to think that he wanted to do malicious harm to anyone.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
