‘Trigger-happy’ cops shoot 72-year-old Texas man dead inside his own garage

[The Straight Story]

40. Oh I read it - rookie cops who shot a man then claimed he would not put a gun down

Drop the gun! "What? Who are you?" Blam.

I have been a cop and I know damned well they lie to protect each other. Not all cops are bad, but there are things that permeate throughout departments like backing up each other when one does something wrong.

He might have been hard of hearing, there was an alarm going off as well, and most cops I know would not see an old man with a gun as being the person breaking into a home and sticking around when the alarm went off (but then, they were rookies).

Young, male, most likely needing money for drugs (so stealing to sell) - You come up on an old man with a gun at a house and chances are he is not there to rob it. I would bet dollars to donuts one of the cops overreacted, knew it, and his buddy backed him up.

Cops come upon the house, guy opens the garage door, cops are standing there and see his gun tell him to drop it, light comes on as door was opening and he didn't know at first they were cops. He hesitates and they fire six rounds at him.

You train for those sorts of things. They screwed up. They know it.