How the fuck did his shot save the kids life? Him shooting at the kid is what put his life in danger.
PoopDelivery
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- The officer shot exactly 1 time and shot in a non-lethal manner (the hand was shot). This was not a murder attempt, this was in a way the extra mile, the kid will hopefully make a full recovery.
It's hard to tell if the shot was intentional. The office is talking to the kid and exiting his vehicle when he shoots him. Cops aim at your center, not your hands.
- The fake gun is not an orange tipped fake, it's very similar to a real looking gun. The kid also was not with friends "playing pretend" or anything like that.
Orange tips haven't stopped police from shooting people in the past. They've even claimed criminals paint orange tips on real guns. If he were playing with friends police would probably be responding to reports of an armed gang.
- The officer does have a messy history, particularly when alcohol is involved and when off duty, but was entirely sober at the time of the shooting and has never been known to be drunk while on duty.
I'm not seeing anywhere that the cop had his BAC tested, or that he was tested for any substances after this shooting.
- We have had issues in the past few years locally particularly with teen violence. They've been trying to solve it, but some kids are carrying guns and robbing people, some kids have been carrying guns to protect themselves from the other kids, and evidently some kids are carrying fake guns too.
I'm not sure what your point is. Should police treat teens in your area as threats because some are carrying real guns?
This kid will absolutely have mental distress and is probably going to be terrified of cops forever. And if the officer did do something wrong and they get to the bottom of it, then what? This cop has already proven he's a danger and hasn't faced any real consequences.
What if your parents are dead, or abused you, or rent and aren't allowed to add you to the lease?
Don't own a car? For millions that means no way to get to work, no way to get supplies, isolation.
Not everyone has a lot of choice in where they buy food, especially with no car.
It sounds like you don't understand how big the US is and how absolutely shit public transportation is. Where I live, I can get to town in 5 minutes by car. By Bus it would take 40 minutes. There is a 5:30pm bus that would get me home but if I missed it the next bus wouldn't come until 8pm.
So by "in real estate" you mean you're a flipper and a landlord.
In the building you were going to convert into apartments, how much were you going to rent these affordable apartments for?
Yeah, we can see the lights from the video's perspective, that doesn't prove Dexter saw them. If we're going off what the video shows, it doesn't look like they pulled him over, it looks like they boxed him in with their vehicle.
Experiencing once in a lifetime events should have you riddled with guilt because you're not putting in your 8 hours. If you want to look at a bright light, look at your fucking monitor, you have 3 Teams meetings before noon.
Sweet, I didn't realize I could double $0.
No one is putting their entire retirement into the stock market, so they're not doubling the amount.
And people being ambushed generally don't have time to check if their attackers unmarked vehicle has emergency lights.
Crosses my mind multiple times a day. I'd probably die, but I'd be free.
1000 high paying tech jobs aren't going to help people living in poverty. Tax money could, though.
It would be incredibly hard to intentionally shoot someone in the hand in this type of situation. I don't think his hand was the intended target. The cop hasn't even fully exited his cruiser when he shoots. It says he shot him within seconds of the encounter.
The cop isn't acting like the kid is a threat to him. He rolls up maybe 15 feet away, directly in his line of sight, talks to him through the window, and starts to exit his cruiser. He didn't observe from a distance, or seek cover, or call for backup. He needlessly put himself in danger if he thought this kid was going to try to kill him.