Bluedreaux is as confused as ever, so nothing has changed there...I can see where reading aloud is a benefit to him.
There are a lot of unanswered questions and if this was so cut & dried like many here are espousing, why are other police officers troubled by the video?
Did they have a legal right to shoot to kill him? Maybe. That doesn't make it any less irresponsible- I'm still waiting for the answer as to why they acted when they did...
The video clearly shows he wasn't attempting to approach them. He was standing there holding up his hands.
WE don't know what was being said and will now get only one side of that story. He must have been really good at telling scary tales, because his body language at the time of the shooting doesn't indicate he posed an immediate threat to those officers or anyone else.
I like cops. I really like responsible ones.
So given the above mentioned statement from a witness that he had already attacked one of the deputies with a knife. How would you, in all of your vast law enforcement training handled the situation given what we know that
* Tasers had been used and were ineffective
* he had already attacked one officer with a knife
* already assaulted the mother of his child, which was the catalyst for the police responding
* it is the accepted standard that anyone within 21 feet of you armed with a knife is a legitimate lethal threat to you
