This Arizona Police Officer thing is blowing up

What are you talking about? Want "thing"?

Even when you murder them and kick your taser towards their dying body in effort to frame them, you only get 20 years. Our legal system that lets them slide is just as fricked as the actions we see.

Cop was looking for a reason to kill him. He escalated the situation from the get go.

"If you fall, fall on your face or were gonna shoot you." It's a fricking ingrained reaction to put your hands down when youre falling.

"Cross your legs and crawl toward me"

At that point you're waddling on your knees. How many people can pull that off sober, much less drunk, crying and with 4 ARs pointed at you with a guy screaming he'll kill you.


The suspect is down and cooperative. They had every opportunity to move in on him. Or like most departments, they could have had him stand and walk backwards with his hands behind his head. Instead, this murderer created a situation where there was going to be no fluid movements for thr suspect and nearly guaranteed he was going to stumble and make a quick movement that startled a trigger happy cop.

Jesus, that is sick. That cop should be on death row for that. At minimum, he should never ever be in possession of a weapon, ever again.

What the hell was the guy reaching for????

I forgot about this. Officer that shot the guy had this on his gun. Not exactly a good thing to have and makes me question why this man was allowed to have this on his rifle. Department shouldn't have let someone that had this be an officer.

I’m as pro cop as a person can get and that is murder. It is inexcusable.

This was murder plain and simple. I can’t believed the cop walked.

I'm going to post this here too.

This is much more problematic than this isolated event.

In case no one has said it yet:

The shooting officer had been on the force less than two years and he was given swat tactical gear and an AR15 and sent in as point man to a public hotel to lead a raid in a situation with no Intel.

That's it terrifyingly insane.

It takes 3-5 years and 2 separate training stages to become a licensed plumber in this county but with less than 2 years police training well give you an AR15 and set you loose on the public.

Forget the racial aspects and the did he out his hand behind his back nonsense. Just focus on how this situation clearly and precisely shows how grossly negligent and incompetent our police departments are.

Then consider the fact that his police chief and superintendent testified that he was a perfect example of their training and he followed it to a tee.

Further, the officer who literally (yes this is the correct use of that word) commanded the crying and drunken victim, who was begging for his life, to:

"put his hands straight in the air and cross his left ankle over his right ankle and then crawl on his knees while keeping his hands up and his ankles crossed while ignoring all instincts to balance himself and I'd he faultered or moved his hands he would be shot dead immediately"

Was also testified to be following department protocol effectively.
TL;DR:

I today's America you aren't qualified to unclog a toilet with 3 full years of plumbing training and apprenticeships, but you are completely qualified to handle an AR15 in a dangerous blind swat tactical event.

When did cops start shooting you for losing at Simon says, I woulda been confused as hell