On the face of it, this looks very bad - and the face of it, the video, may be all that matters given the current environment.
No, they canât. No policy resulted in this incident.
Thatâs fine if you donât support it, but it needs to happen. The current status quo is unacceptable.

GrandWazoo:
There really needs to be a national movement to get body cams on all cops. This â â â â has to end.
All it takes is money. For cameraâs, and for storage of all the video they record.
Thatâs the main problem for places that donât have cameraâs.
Then they can get a federal grant for cameras instead of tanks.
I recommend they just find a different job, since apparently very few people appreciate their work. So, let them all find new careers and see if that attitude changes in a few years.

I recommend they just find a different job, since apparently very few people appreciate their work. So, let them all find new careers and see if that attitude changes in a few years.
I donât agree with their work in several cases.

zantax:
I recommend they just find a different job, since apparently very few people appreciate their work. So, let them all find new careers and see if that attitude changes in a few years.
I donât agree with their work in several cases.
Then address it on a case by case basis. I have no use for a blame them all approach.
Some people just LOVE living under someoneâs heel.

If you walk away after a cop gives you an order than your death is your own fault.
No itâs not.
He had no weapon, his back was turned, the cop grab his shirt and shot him in the back at point blank range. You can say this dumb â â â â because itâs not one of your love ones.
One interesting thing to me is how these incidents are so wide-spread across different operating environments. City size, racial demographics, etc.
Of course policing is done mostly the same way in every place, so I guess itâs not surprising.

Oldandtired:
If you walk away after a cop gives you an order than your death is your own fault.
No itâs not.
He had no weapon, his back was turned, the cop grab his shirt and shot him in the back at point blank range. You can say this dumb â â â â because itâs not one of your love ones.
Right, not fair, they should wait until he gets a gun from his car first and points it at them, then they can fire and if that gets some cops killed, who cares.

Jamerican:
Oldandtired:
If you walk away after a cop gives you an order than your death is your own fault.
No itâs not.
He had no weapon, his back was turned, the cop grab his shirt and shot him in the back at point blank range. You can say this dumb â â â â because itâs not one of your love ones.Right, not fair, they should wait until he gets a gun from his car first and points it at them, then they can fire and if that gets some cops killed, who cares.
Better to shoot someone in the back seven times at point blank than to have the possibility that he may be able to obtain a weapon that may or may not exist.

WuWei:
zantax:
I recommend they just find a different job, since apparently very few people appreciate their work. So, let them all find new careers and see if that attitude changes in a few years.
I donât agree with their work in several cases.
Then address it on a case by case basis. I have no use for a blame them all approach.
The issue is systemic. It happened in a motel hallway in Arizona. On a playground in Ohio. In a street in Minnesota and now a residence in Wisconsin.
It happens in more states than not.

Becuase of the hoodlems.
No, because the cops keep using excessive force.

Jamerican:
Oldandtired:
If you walk away after a cop gives you an order than your death is your own fault.
No itâs not.
He had no weapon, his back was turned, the cop grab his shirt and shot him in the back at point blank range. You can say this dumb â â â â because itâs not one of your love ones.Right, not fair, they should wait until he gets a gun from his car first and points it at them, then they can fire and if that gets some cops killed, who cares.
They shouldnât have let him get to the car.

Right, not fair, they should wait until he gets a gun from his car first and points it at them, then they can fire and if that gets some cops killed, who cares.
If that is your logic, I wonder why I didnât get shot Saturday while getting a speeding ticket. After all, I may have had a gun in the glove box. Why should the trooper have waited to see if I did or not? Why wasnât I shot?

They shouldnât have let him get to the car.
Donât be silly.
Cops show up, they should just shoot. After all, the person might have a gun.
So you got shot at with a taser, then evaded them and went to your car, and they didnât in turn shoot you? Tell us more.
All the more reason for body cameras on âallâ cops all the time on duty

zantax:
Jamerican:
Oldandtired:
If you walk away after a cop gives you an order than your death is your own fault.
No itâs not.
He had no weapon, his back was turned, the cop grab his shirt and shot him in the back at point blank range. You can say this dumb â â â â because itâs not one of your love ones.Right, not fair, they should wait until he gets a gun from his car first and points it at them, then they can fire and if that gets some cops killed, who cares.
Better to shoot someone in the back seven times at point blank than to have the possibility that he may be able to obtain a weapon that may or may not exist.
Yes it is. And is easily avoided but following legal police orders.

zantax:
Right, not fair, they should wait until he gets a gun from his car first and points it at them, then they can fire and if that gets some cops killed, who cares.
If that is your logic, I wonder why I didnât get shot Saturday while getting a speeding ticket. After all, I may have had a gun in the glove box. Why should the trooper have waited to see if I did or not? Why wasnât I shot?
Did you disobey a lawful order or were you doing as directed? Big difference between going into your glove box when asked and going for it when told to keep your hands on the wheel. No idea why I have to explain this stuff to adults.