"The officers have been identified as Officer Shawn McKenzie, who has been with the campus public safety office since 2002, and Officer James Dewey, who’s been there since 2014. Both became armed sworn officers in 2016. The school’s board of trustees voted to allow their campus officers to carry firearms two years earlier.
A witness also told Oregon Public Broadcasting that the man wasn’t fighting and was shot after a holstered handgun he was carrying fell onto the ground and he appeared to be trying to pick it up.
After the officers yelled that there was a gun, there was no apparent hesitation before the gunfire, the witness said."
"The officers have been identified as Officer Shawn McKenzie, who has been with the campus public safety office since 2002, and Officer James Dewey, who’s been there since 2014. Both became armed sworn officers in 2016. The school’s board of trustees voted to allow their campus officers to carry firearms two years earlier.
A witness also told Oregon Public Broadcasting that the man wasn’t fighting and was shot after a holstered handgun he was carrying fell onto the ground and he appeared to be trying to pick it up.
After the officers yelled that there was a gun, there was no apparent hesitation before the gunfire, the witness said."
Maybe there is more to it.
[/quote]Well, at least this much of the story is completely false. At least one of the officers clearly and loudly yells, “drop the gun, drop the gun” twice.
The video doesn’t really make anything else clear but you can see one man dressed in black picking something up a few seconds prior to that hear the curb.
Too early to judge for sure either way but this may well prove not to be a justified shooting.
