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Kloe_Rinz posted...

The cops shouldnt be firing unless their life or the life of someone else is in immediate danger. If he has a weapon but discarded it or started fleeing or whatever that isnt immediate danger anymore

They did not know he had discarded it.

And saying someone is no longer an "immediate danger" just because they're fleeing is how people (in this case, the police) get shot and killed.

Not saying Jayland was the surest and fastest shot but that's dangerous as fuck to go "Yeah he popped off at police but he's fleeing now so we can't treat him as dangerous". In the eyes of the officers he was still a threat to him and the community (wantonly shooting a gun out a window while driving is dangerous af to everyone around) and they treated him as such because there was no indication he'd disposed of his weapon.

The only thing questionable thing the cops did in this situation is the amount of shots they fired, but considering the amount of officers on scene they likely still followed their training (put a reasonable amount (in this case approx. 7 rounds each) into the threat until the threat is eliminated.

So while 90 shots with 30 misses sounds terrible, it becomes a tiny bit more understandable when you view all the factors in the case.

It's easy to read the headline and get riled up and angry about "Pigs shot another unarmed black man" but once you actually look at the facts and review the body cam and dash cam footage, you should be able to see why the officers did what they did.

There's so many cases to hold against the police. This isn't one of them. It's tragic what happened, yes, but the cops followed the book here a lot better than most cases.