Could You Have Survived this Encounter With Police?

[_Chap]

On the basis of that video, it appears that the officer acted in an unprofessional way that might well have reduced a completely innocent and obedient person to abject confused terror, so that eventually he made a stupid error that got him killed.

It was, frankly, almost as if the officer was hoping to get a chance to kill him, and was trying hard to create such a chance.

A system that puts policemen like that on the street with automatic weapons is a failed system. A system that then acquits them of any offence is ... not very good.

[_Gunnar]

I think Chap had the situation pegged. It looked very much like the officer was trying his darnedest to create some excuse to kill the man.

[_DoubtingThomas]

It is like the most horrific game of "Simon Says" ever where the losers wind up dead. Good grief.

Let's not question the system, we don't want to be called "creepy".

[_DoubtingThomas]

It demonstrates that the officer had to make a split-second decision when [Shaver] moved his hands toward the small of his back after being advised that if he did, he’d be shot,” Piccarreta told The Post in 2016.

The officer couldn't wait to see a gun in his hand. Cops need to realize that batman doesn't exists, there was no possibility for the guy to get a gun and shoot at the officer.

[_MeDotOrg]

One thing I'd like to point out: We know about this incident because there was a camera. Imagine the same incident being described by the police officer without the corroborating visual evidence. It shows the importance of having cameras.

[_Choyo Chagas]

...
the importance of having cameras.

in vain

[_Chap]

It demonstrates that the officer had to make a split-second decision when [Shaver] moved his hands toward the small of his back after being advised that if he did, he’d be shot,” Piccarreta told The Post in 2016.

The officer couldn't wait to see a gun in his hand. Cops need to realize that batman doesn't exists, there was no possibility for the guy to get a gun and shoot at the officer.

As the video clearly showed, the officer had already (in his obvious confusion and terror) put his hands behind his back once, and simply got another shouted warning to be more obedient. It seems to me that the officer finally shot him not so much for doing something that posed a risk to the officer's life, but simply for disobeying again.

I don't think that disobedience to a police officer is (yet) a capital crime in many advanced countries. Depends on the police officer, I suppose.

[_Choyo Chagas]

I don't think that disobedience to a police officer is (yet) a capital crime in many advanced countries....

... and punished by death penalty on the spot
?

familiar...

Prophet Brigham Young (1801 -1877):
“Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.

I don't think that disobedience to a police officer is (yet) a capital crime in many advanced countries. Depends on the police officer, I suppose.

and depends on the country

advanced or not...

[_moksha]

How could that officer have been acquited? His behavior seemed more reminiscent of Charles Manson on a high than a sober officer of the court. What a horrendous miscarriage of justice.

[_Choyo Chagas]

How could that officer have been acquited? His behavior seemed more reminiscent of Charles Manson on a high than a sober officer of the court. What a horrendous miscarriage of justice.

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