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I'm the furthest thing from a cop defender.

But

After looking more into this and seeing the body cam footage, there were a dozen or so officers on ground. So if they all start firing once one does, then that's how you get a solid 90 shots at one fleeing suspect.

The police chief said in a press conference that all officers involved indicated (after being sequestered from each other immediately after the incident so unlikely they all got together to form the same story) that they all saw movement from Jayland that made them think he was about to attack them.

Considering he had already shot at them and they had no clear indication to that point that he wasn't armed, it isn't a stretch for them all to assume that an upward motion from his hip was him pulling his weapon to fire at them.

Sure, you can doubt the cops story but there's like 13 different POVs from the 13 officers on ground. You can kind of see what they're talking about, though the camera quality isn't the greatest.

Yes, it's easy to frame this as "unarmed man gunned down by big bad pigs" but the timing of him tumbling out of the car and the last shot being fired is roughly 17 seconds. That includes them deploying and missing with tasers. The 90 shots happen within roughly 10 seconds.

By their training they all responded rather appropriately. If a suspect demonstrates they are a threat, you respond appropriately. He'd already fired a shot, whether at them or not is irrelevant, and when he turns around in the body cam footage in the 2 seconds before he gets lit up, they had every reason to believe he was still armed.

I know CE has an endless hate boner for cops but this is one of those few times where cops did everything by the book. It just had a sad ending for Jayland