Cops Shoot Suspect at CA Carl's Jr.

[Ironhandjohn]

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If you watch the footage in full-screen mode, you can see the suspect rear back with the pipe/hammer/object in his hand just before the cop with the dog shoots him. He is also still on his feet until cop #2 lights him up.

I don't have all the details of the shooting yet, but it looks justified to me, as he managed to yank the Taser leads out of his FACE right before he was killed. As a private citizen, I would have shot him if presented with the same situation.

I would guess that the suspect was on some kind of drugs when it occurred, as 9:30am isn't normally a time of day when drunks do something stupid like that. Addiction doesn't have banker's hours, though, so I'll wait for the toxicology report before I pass judgment.


Tough call all the way around, I guess.

More air for the rest of us, now...

[gman]

I think shooting anyone in the FACE with a taser will get you an angry response. Nothing happened because the probes were to close together.

The cop should be given 30 days on the beach for deliberately shooting someone in the face, but at least he tried not to kill the fellow.

Notice too that the fellow was down when polished off by the other cop; he was executed.

[Thorack]

What?

He didn't pay for his EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES! Life sometimes truly imitates art.

Thorack

[evan price]

I think shooting anyone in the FACE with a taser will get you an angry response. Nothing happened because the probes were to close together.

The cop should be given 30 days on the beach for deliberately shooting someone in the face, but at least he tried not to kill the fellow.

Notice too that the fellow was down when polished off by the other cop; he was executed.


Yer fulla shite too. The first five shots go off, the guy turns away from cop #1, cop #2 starts shooting, the guy goes down. "Executed" my ass.

I bet this fella was on something stronger than aspirin.

Moral of the story: Don't attack a cop after smashing out all the windows in a restaurant.

[gman]

Nope, he was shot in the face with the taser, you can see him pull the probes out, he turned to the cop was shot twice and falls backwards and then is capped four to five times.

[Rick]

Video was pulled from YT for copyright infringement.