This is a sad situation. My guess is she's been sitting behind a desk for a decade or so and, due to the loss of funds and collegues quitting, she was out in the field without any type of retraining. Mistakes happen, but those tasers are yellow and fairly hard to not identify it as a taser, not a gun. She's toast and can kiss her pension (and safety and possibly her freedom) good-bye. He didn't deserve to die for fleeing an outstanding warrant charge. Do we know what the outstanding warrant was for?
Of course he doesn't deserve to die but what if he went speeding and caused an accident hurting or killing others. It's within the realm of possibility. Fuck him.
She must be feeling unreal levels of misery (if she's normal). She still pulled the trigger. I would wish for man slaughter.
He definitely has some responsibility here. Not saying he doesn't and no doubt the prosecutor will argue he recognized it was a gun and not a taser and fled for his life. This is not a situation I'd like to find myself in, as far as the officer is concerned. Will the mob decide her fate or not? This is why many police are changing careers or taking early retirement. I don't blame them.
This is a sad situation. My guess is she's been sitting behind a desk for a decade or so and, due to the loss of funds and collegues quitting, she was out in the field without any type of retraining. Mistakes happen, but those tasers are yellow and fairly hard to not identify it as a taser, not a gun. She's toast and can kiss her pension (and safety and possibly her freedom) good-bye. He didn't deserve to die for fleeing an outstanding warrant charge. Do we know what the outstanding warrant was for?
Of course he doesn't deserve to die but what if he went speeding and caused an accident hurting or killing others. It's within the realm of possibility. Fuck him.
She must be feeling unreal levels of misery (if she's normal). She still pulled the trigger. I would wish for man slaughter.
I think it was theft.
He definitely has some responsibility here. Not saying he doesn't and no doubt the prosecutor will argue he recognized it was a gun and not a taser and fled for his life. This is not a situation I'd like to find myself in, as far as the officer is concerned. Will the mob decide her fate or not? This is why many police are changing careers or taking early retirement. I don't blame them.
Completely agree.