re: #5 lawhawk

*cough* Bulkshit *cough*

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He grabbed the wrong instrument and killed someone. That’s what they’re going with. It was accidental.

It makes the argument that guns should not be in hands of cops at all, and that the training among officers is uniformly awful or worse. We see this repeatedly that police training is woefully inadequate, even in places where there’s a lot of training.

Officer reached for his gun instead of the taser. That’s what they’re going to use as the excuse for killing this person.

There was a case like this in Oklahoma some years ago. Ex-Oklahoma deputy Robert Bates guilty of killing unarmed suspect

A jury found a sheriff’s deputy guilty of second-degree manslaughter Wednesday in the fatal shooting of an unarmed suspect.

Robert Bates, who was a volunteer reserve sheriff deputy for the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office last year at the time of the shooting, never denied shooting Eric Courtney Harris.

Bates, 74, said he meant to use his Taser stun gun, not his revolver, on the suspect, who had been tackled by other deputies and was being held on the ground.

Yeah, when I’m working out on the farm, I carry my phone in my pocket rather than on my belt so I won’t grab my handgun by mistake and shoot myself in the head trying to answer a call.