Police Execution?

Is this (http://www.ktvu.com/news/18412851/detail.html#-) an execution or a justifiable shooting? You be the judge:

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this is horrible! I wonder if the officer thought he was going for his teaser. I noticed cops wear their guns with the butt pointing behind and the teaser the butt is pointing forward.

If that guy they were arresting had no weapons this was an execution!

this is horrible! I wonder if the officer thought he was going for his teaser. I noticed cops wear their guns with the butt pointing behind and the teaser the butt is pointing forward.

If that guy they were arresting had no weapons this was an execution!


I wonder if that's possible. Can you confuse teaser with a gun? I know we have a former Police Officer in the forum, maybe he can answer that.

there is no excuse for what happened. the guy was in custody, laying face down, handcuffed. why he would even have a gun pointed at him is a mystery

I don't see how you confuse the two. I mean I guess you could grab one for the other but to draw it, point it and fire, especially based on the video, would be basically impossible unless the guy just panicked. I wish we could hear more but seriously that was f'ed up. I think it is hard to be a police officer. You have to walk a very thin line between protecting yourself and those around you versus going overboard. Unfortunately I think the culture within that field gravitates towards over-reaction. I appreciate the jobs that police do but based on every single cop I have met and known I can't say there is one I have personally liked. I don't why that is but they all just seem like big a-holes to me. I am pretty biased against cops I guess. Am I crazy?

there is no excuse for what happened. the guy was in custody, laying face down, handcuffed. why he would even have a gun pointed at him is a mystery

The guy was not handcuffed at that point. It looks as the officer is trying to pull the mans arm out from under him and then steps back and fires. Did he think he saw a weapon? Who Knows but it almost looked that way as he pulled his arm out and stepped back. I'd hate to think he just backed off and fired but its just too hard to tell.

I appreciate the jobs that police do but based on every single cop I have met and known I can't say there is one I have personally liked. I don't why that is but they all just seem like big a-holes to me. I am pretty biased against cops I guess. Am I crazy?

I agree most are d*cks, they have this better then you type aura about them and my Grandfather was a 25 year vet of the Providence Police Dept. and he was a d*ck.

Basically I look at cops as Kevin James in Mall Cop, useless.

there is definitely a pretty big problem with the authority cops get in the us. i don't know if its the prerequisites and pay, or what but there's a certain personality type that gravitates toward that job, and then the seniors in positions at the departments generally promote a certain behavior that borders extreme and paranoia.

Absent additional facts, it was a cold-blooded execution and the police officer should be facing murder charges.

As a general matter, let me say that police have a very dangerous job and the overwhelming majority of officers are honorable, competent, well-intentioned, and deserve our respect and thanks. However, I also think there are far too many police officers with poor character, who were motivated to become police officers for the wrong reasons, and who abuse their power. Worse still, I believe a significant minority of police officers are too quick to use physical or deadly force and, all too often, get off with a minor slap on the wirst.

Absent additional facts, it was a cold-blooded execution and the police officer should be facing murder charges.

As a general matter, let me say that police have a very dangerous job and the overwhelming majority of officers are honorable, competent, well-intentioned, and deserve our respect and thanks. However, I also think there are far too many police officers with poor character, who were motivated to become police officers for the wrong reasons, and who abuse their power. Worse still, I believe a significant minority of police officers are too quick to use physical or deadly force and, all too often, get off with a minor slap on the wirst.

I agree it should be be viewed as murder knowing what we know.

I am basing my thoughts on police officers on the signifcant amount of them that I know well enough to pass some informed judgement on their character and personality. I don't know why they become police officers. I would speculate that most do so out of honor and a sense of decency. I do know that the culture must instill into them a superior attitude because I, without even a hint of hyperbole, have never known one that I thought was a decent person overall. Everey single one I ever knew was at best just an a-hole towards non-officers. I know I am seriosuly generalizing and I can certainly admit that there has to be a good amount of decent and honrable police officers. I applaud most all cops, dicks and non-dicks, for putting their life on the line to protect us. I respect what they do a great deal. But I don't like them and I can certainly see where a second year cop with perhaps a little bit of panic in a hostile environment can draw a weapon, aim it and fire on an unprotected suspect. I think it's because they only see the bad in people always.