Sam Lowry said:
TinFoilHatPreacherBear said:
whiterock said:
TinFoilHatPreacherBear said:
whiterock said:
Forest Bueller III said:
Limited IQ Redneck in PU said:
All the videos cleary show both of his feet were to the left of the vehicle when he fires. He shot her as she was leaving. One bullet went in the far left of the windshield. The other two went through the left window and killed her. Why? It doesnt matter if she was a carpet muncher or an idiot or an aggie. She was a human.
Virtually nobody on her seems to be willing to accept this fact. She was a human being. The last 2 shots he was completely out of any harm's way and simply fired in anger as he called her a "****ing *****".
Not only that, those last two shots, endangered others, and put a vehicle completely out of control, accelerating when she slumped forward dead, which could have killed or injured others on the ground.
There are reasons there is police policy not to do things this officer did.
that argument is as full of it as the proverbial Christmas Goose. Not just wrong, but maliciously so.
The officer was in front of the car. Was struck by the car. Was hospitalized with internal bleeding. = a superhighway of legal precedent about that. A car is a deadly weapon. Any person who attacks a police officer with a deadly weapon is a threat the the community which must be stopped. What she did was no different, legally, than pulling a firearm/knife on an officer. The moment she hit the accelerator, she became a threat to the entire community.
This is as about as clear a case of justified shooting as it gets. Please quit the neverTrump nonsense. It's going to get more people killed, officers and public alike.
Leo's are trained to shoot to kill. If they fire their gun, it means their life or another's is in danger. They are trained to never aim for a leg because that would mean they shot when their life wasn't in danger. Shoot center mass, shoot to kill, or don't shoot.
We were talking about the Good head shot (completely justified, given the circumstances) and then you conflate it with the Venezuelan gang member shooting (also completely justified). That latter was shot in the leg reflects tactical reality - officer did not fire on a shooting range in a Chapman Stance. He fired in a real-life hand to hand struggle with a suspect, who was resisting, when 2 additional people emerged and started bashing the officer about the head and shoulders with a snow shovel. He had to attempt to disengage, retreat, and draw into a strong-hand retention stance (which protects the weapon from assailants) while instinctively trying to fend off blows from a deadly weapon. Accuracy would understandably be further compromised if if the officer was on the ground at the time.
Both a car and a shovel are deadly weapons. Not really debateable. A blow to the head with a shovel can kill you graveyard dead. Its a heavy metal object with a sharp edge.
I'm not conflating it with the recent leg shooting. You're the one doing that.
Clearly in a struggle it's anything goes. I was explaining that officers will not aim for the leg because they are trained repeatedly to only shoot at "kill areas". They don't point a pistol and aim to shoot a gun out of some bad guys hand, or shoot bad guys in the foot, etc, life is not like the TV. They are trained to shoot to kill (neutralize the threat per Florida). Once the lady rammed him with the car and he decided to shoot, training kicked in and he neutralized the threat. That's all that I was pointing out.
I'm not Sam, I'm the guy defending the cops here, the recent leg shooting was a struggle and clearly justified as far as we know right now. Very different situation than aiming to shoot someone from a distance.
ICE agents and LEOs in general are trained not to position themselves in front of a moving vehicle, much less with guns drawn, in order to prevent its escape. If they can safely move out of the way without firing, they must do so.
That's what would have happened if his training had kicked in.
Thank you...
We are talking immigration here, not criminal.
Why are we going full ballistic on illegal aliens or Green Card violations? If they are criminal, gang members or cartel, ICS shouldn't be apprehending show the evidence, get a warrant, get the Police or Federal Law Enforcement and arrest them. But, we are talking immigration violations here that are going south into shooting women driving away 4 times. And anyone that questions is the one that is looked at strange????
I am surprised at the Texas guys, like us in Florida, illegal aliens have been a part of life forever. Go to any Home Depot in the morning and you can hire them for day work.