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

[Ghost in the Machine]

81. "It's obvious that the officer believed it was a long barreled gun"... Are you serious?? WHO the

hell could mistake that for a gun? Where is the forearm or the pump? Where is the wooden butt stock?? He never even had two hands on it, pointing it at the officer like it was a weapon.

I don't know about where this happened, but where I live in Tennessee, and when I lived in Florida and Georgia, the cops called in your plate number before they stopped you... and waited until info for the registered owner, including name, address and D.O.B. to come back, along with any wants or warrants, then the officer would initiate a stop, telling dispatch if the tag matched the vehicle, and also gave the location of the stop in case anything happened during the stop. At least they'd know where to start looking if they didn't hear back from the officer never responded back and they couldn't raise them up. They started this in most, if not all States, a long time ago, after too many officers were shot during routine traffic stops and dispatch didn't know their exact location.

I don't care *how* "distraught" the officer was after the fact, either. The main fact is that he was too trigger happy in the first place. He shot first, then yelled "drop the gun!" Of course, the pig has already been cleared of any wrong doing and it was deemed a "good shoot" by his superiors. I think they should have a citizens panel to review shootings because the "thin blue line" protects their own. they think they are better than us and are above the law.

Peace,

Ghost