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Arcanine2009 posted...

The only evidence we have is that body cam when they got out and chased him, and we know he was unarmed when he fled. He's dead and can't defend himself. I find it hard to trust cops in situations like these as they can easily fabricate shit and get away with it, including planting drugs or guns. It's happened far too many times. They will protect their own before anyone else.

But lets just say they did seea flash like gunfire coming from his car, before he stopped his car. Did they hear the gunfire. Did he shoot through the window or open his window and shoot out? Do they have any cameras like dashboard cameras to record that?

And if he did.. should cops really shoot to kill suspects that are fleeing (not posing a danger)? It's one thing if he was a mass murderer, but hey.... white mass murders just get handcuffed and free fast food on their way to jail.

We have dash cam footage preceding the on-foot incident and we have like 13 different body cam footage.

You can clearly see a flash out the driver side window. It is arguable if he was aiming directly at police but at that point its irrelevant. He's armed and he's demonstrated he is dangerous. If he had only flashed the weapon and initial pursuing officer called it in as a weapon without being certain then this conversation changes. But they even went back to the scene and found a casing consistent with the gun found in Jayland's car.

So yes, he did fire a shot during the chase.

We know, post fact, that he's unarmed. The pursuing officers did not and even if one of them had checked the car as soon as he tumbled out the passenger side door, there was no guarantee he wasn't armed.

They only shot at him once he turned round and made a motion, with both hands, from his hips while under the presumption he was still armed (because they had no reason to presume he wasn't armed). This is all from the body cam footage. Not an officers account.

If you don't want to watch him get gunned down, I understand, but it's all on tape. You can infer the knowledge each officer had on hand and see what they saw and understand why they would have acted the way they did.

Yes, 90 shots is overkill but by my own timing they started firing and were done within 10 seconds. Now that's a long time for us watching but when the adrenaline is pumping, that's basically no time.