re: Man killed in SPD officer-involved shooting was not armed

Same post as I put on PT...

That body cam video was exactly how it was described to me a few days ago.

Bagley was posted up around that corner trying to be slick and Tyler ran right into him. They were face to face instantly.

Really tough call and super quick decision, but not malicious at all.

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Really tough call and super quick decision, but not malicious at all.

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That’s why the negligent homicide is an appropriate call here. Cop acted with criminal negligence firing a round, but didn’t seem to have the intent to shoot him needed for a higher charge.

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officers just run up to armed perps and allow themselves to be shot first

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But he wasn’t armed..

Like every other one of these if he had complied he would be alive

It was dark and the man came towards him and his weapon that was drawn at close range.

His reaction was probably that the last thing an officer wants to do is shoot someone no matter right or wrong.

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As far as the shoot, if multiple cops can’t handle a unarmed drunk, without shooting him, they don’t need to be cops. It’s murder plain and simple. Because if I had or you had shot him, we would’ve gotten Murder charges.

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I somewhat agree with your premise, but you and I aren't put in these situations regularly for our career. It's not our job to respond to these calls and protect the innocent, so by definition a police officer will be put in this position a million times more than any layman would. (It should be noted that I'm in law enforcement and I'm only making this statement as a "regular citizen" here)

They should be held to a higher standard due to the authority and power they hold, but they also should be allowed the same leeway in true mistakes that they clearly regret and did not intend. You and I might be put in a situation where deadly force is on the table once in our lifetimes, as average citizens. These guys do it every day, usually multiple times a day.

The officer was clearly instantly remorseful and has probably been harder on himself than any outside source at this point. I'm not saying that this absolves him of any wrongdoing, but at some point you have to look at the training and positions these guys are put in regularly instead of the individual. He clearly did not WANT to end the perp's life and I'm sure he would take it back a million times over now, but this was a mistake that could've happened to any individual in his heightened awareness and reactive position - police or not.

As a federal law enforcement officer myself, this one gives me mixed emotions and feelings. It was obviously a bad shoot, but at the same time I feel like it could've been a mistake a lot of us could make in his shoes, in that situation.

Alonzo's life is over, done; and that alone is a big deal to end someone's existence whether they're guilty of heinous crimes against humanity or just drunk and high being stupid. That alone carries some weight and should be punished in some way due to the fact that he wasn't a legitimate threat to the officer's life. But we also only know this through hindsight and weren't there, in the officer's shoes, when the perp he knew to be "threatening his wife and child" took off from a second story balcony and was suddenly surprised by him popping around a corner.

I really don't know how to feel about this one

If an officer has his weapon drawn and a perp moves toward the officer and his drawn weapon and is at a close range, what is the officer supposed to do. Wait for the perp to grab his gun and attack him or fire the weapon before the gun can possibly be taken from him?

It looks like the defense has a good case for an acquittal.

When you see rental truck loads of rioting gear and out of town professional agitators showing up, it`s guaranteed you’re going to have trouble.