Dashcam Footage Released of 70 Year Old Man Shot over Expired License Plate

[TorchTheWitch]

6. I think it's sad

It's obvious that the officer believed it was a long barreled gun, and it's also how distraught he is once he finds out it wasn't a gun. Why did the man get out of the truck in the first place? Why did he then reach for something that appeared to be a long barreled gun out of the back of his pick up? Had he just stayed in the truck as anyone pulled over by the police knows to do he wouldn't have been shot. And the officer DID shout out to him to stop reaching for what he thought was a long barreled gun, and he didn't. He actually started shouting before the man ever reached into his pick up bed and when he noticed the guy had gotten out of the pick up and started walking in his direction. I'm having a hard time believing that someone who needs a cane to walk would keep it in the bed of their truck in the first place and not in the front.

How anyone can listen to that and not see how upset the officer was and his crying once he found out that what he obviously sincerely believed was a long barreled gun was only a cane wasn't listening. It's sad all the way around, and I can't fault the officer believing his cane was a long barreled gun, and it's obvious that he did believe that it was.

Here's a guy that inexplicably got out of their vehicle when you aren't supposed to, was shouted at by the officer to stop yet still walks to the back of the truck and pulls what appeared to the officer to be a long barreled shotgun out of the bed of the truck. Sadly, the object in hindsight turned out to be not a gun but a cane, and the man would have been just fine if he'd just stayed in the damn truck when he was pulled over as anyone knows to do and what officers tell you to do, not ignored the officers shouted warnings and continued on to the back of the truck to pull out a thing that appeared to be a long barreled gun.