Teenager Alerts Police That They Left Their Brights on -- 5 Minutes Later They Shoot Him Dead

[ladjf]

195. Any sane adult who watched the video would understand exactly who the "Players"

were and what happened.

One of the participants was an adult professional policeman. The other, a young and perhaps not too bright civilian.

Within a few minutes into the tape, it was clear that this confrontation was headed toward a bad outcome for the young man.
The fact that he failed to recognize this suggests some form of impairment. The fact that the policeman didn't recognize that
the young man did not intend to cooperate in any way was a breech of judgment on his part.

I'm not going to start going through a list of "better" moves that could be made by the officer. I'm simply going to say that
the necessity of subduing him immediately due to his failure to show his driver's license did not reach the level of killing him.

But, the act his been done. The young man's life is over. The officer's life will be permanently damaged, regardless of the outcome of his hearings. One person dead, the other's life ruined due to disobeying the order to show license.

I do believe that due to the lengthy video evidence, the punishment of the officer is going to be more severe than he anticipated.
He was the trained professional guardian of the public. The boy was a young and apparently naive citizen who didn't deserve to die over the particulars of this incident.

The officer will claim that he feared for his life, but, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, he might be ruled innocent.

Meanwhile, incidents similar to this continue to occur all over America. We could do better than this.