Fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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.

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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.

A good defense lawyer would never, EVER argue that, especially in this case, because;

1. You can’t possibly defend killing someone for some act that a person might commit at some future point, and

2. Unless his partner did a runner and went for a doughnut, the likelihood of Brooks tasering cop, then walking up to take his weapon approaches nil.

Boru