I could not and would not shoot a man begging for his life.
This suggests that it is entirely unprecedented and impossible for a suspect to feign cooperation before drawing a gun.
The cop didn't shoot a man begging for his life. He shot a man, credibly believed to be armed, reaching rapidly toward his waistband.
You are being extremely dishonest.
That the police assume this right away despite and are legally protected with it and use it to shoot down innocent citizens with assault rifles is beyond a joke and horrifying. I don't know why you're defending his actions.
If you can see why he would shoot the man, you can see why he failed horribly to ensure his own safety and that of his officers. You could see that his orders were contradictory and clumsy, and that his communication was ineffective. You could see why the guy who got shot begging on his knees and sobbing was put in a situation to fail. All of this culminated in a situation where he chose to infer that he needed to use deadly force. Unfortunately this is the standard.
Yet you think there's nothing wrong with any of what the police did? You think there's nothing wrong with laws that support shooting someone who could have been neutralized but was instead terrorized?
Need I remind you that shortly after they sacked the guy for sucking at his job? Is there nothing there that sheds light on any of this?
this, so hard
basically, in these situations people love to victim blame. but the cop is the one with high tension training. the victim is just a normal citizen. so why do people blame the victim when it happens? the cop is the one with the training and should be acting better