“Fleeing Felon” Video Ends in Officer Charged



“Fleeing Felon” Video Ends in Officer Charged. I’ll break it down from four different angles and explain what the “Fleeing Felon Rule” is, and what it is not…..

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23 thoughts on ““Fleeing Felon” Video Ends in Officer Charged”

  1. I remember the cops shooting at a guy for running away from him over an open container ticket. He only shot one time and missed, but he was shooting straight at a school house. It could have been bad

  2. Most places, he would have been shot immediately when he even raised his knife. Strange to me that the officer didn't even try to engage verbally with the man in any way to deescalate the situation.

  3. We're going to need a police force to protect us from the police force I saw that old man do nothing wrong except be crazy and tired of the police I think every one of these cops should be fired and the shooters put in prison for murder

  4. And then the most disgusting part is handcuffing the dead man how stupid is that every single cup on this scene needs to be fired they're stupid and they're cowards and we don't need police officers like that on the streets

  5. Wrong on so many points. Officer lowers the weapon to avoid friendly fire, raises it back up again. Also, this suspect committed an attempted murder of an officer, what will he do to someone else if he gets away?

  6. First shooter stopped firing because he apparently twisted his ankle or something. Also, he was at a bad angle and could have hit pepper-spray cop if he kept firing from that position. However. Once a person charges at someone (cop or not) with a deadly weapon their life should be forfeit. The fact that he tried to "flee" once he started getting shot is irrelevant. You say he was fleeing, I say he was looking for an easier target. This one shouldn't be up for debate IMHO. Imagine if he found an innocent bystander at the end of that parking lot and ended up stabbing them to death in order to try and steal their car to get away. Would that innocent person's life be the cop's fault because they stopped firing once the crazed knife-wielding attacker turned his back on them? Some cops make a lot of bad calls, and use force too often, but this isn't one of those cases IMHO. That guy wasn't headed to church after surviving the first 3 shots, he was going to find someone that wouldn't put up a fight.

  7. Cop not guilty of anything, it all happened in an instant, not always possible for a person to process, mentally, the change from a person who was charging, to one who now is running, in a split second.

  8. A questionable shoot for sure, but there’s not enough there to get a conviction. The victim already demonstrated he was willing to charge an armed officer with a knife, upon fleeing, he could’ve encountered an unarmed civilian, and having already demonstrated a willingness to attack, officer could be argued to have been justified shooting to protect the public. I’m not saying it’s right, but that’s the way I think it will play out.

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