Ex-competitive distance runner turned crossfitter won’t get out of his vehicle, gets tased, then eats it from the police.

5k pr? Guessing that dude had roid rage. Is he dead now? Is the officer ok?

5k pr? wrote:

5k pr? Guessing that dude had roid rage. Is he dead now? Is the officer ok?

Yeah they made good funeral arrangement

I dont understand why they followed him to his car. He seemed to be walking off whatever was on his mind. The cop kept telling him to come here when the guy was walking away. He was not fleeing.

Then when he got tased of course he was pissed. He snapped.

Define "good"? This isnt "good". A potentially destructive human being was working through his emotions until the police provoked it again. It looks like this ended with a human tragedy. How is that "so good"?

Mental Health wrote:

I dont understand why they followed him to his car. He seemed to be walking off whatever was on his mind. The cop kept telling him to come here when the guy was walking away. He was not fleeing.

Then when he got tased of course he was pissed. He snapped.

Define "good"? This isnt "good". A potentially destructive human being was working through his emotions until the police provoked it again. It looks like this ended with a human tragedy. How is that "so good"?

I'm often repulsed by some of the police shootings, but this one seemed justified. His behavior prior to the police arriving, indicated he was dangerous to others. My only criticism is that shooting him ten times was ridiculous.

SDSU Aztec wrote:

Mental Health wrote:

I dont understand why they followed him to his car. He seemed to be walking off whatever was on his mind. The cop kept telling him to come here when the guy was walking away. He was not fleeing.

Then when he got tased of course he was pissed. He snapped.

Define "good"? This isnt "good". A potentially destructive human being was working through his emotions until the police provoked it again. It looks like this ended with a human tragedy. How is that "so good"?

I'm often repulsed by some of the police shootings, but this one seemed justified. His behavior prior to the police arriving, indicated he was dangerous to others. My only criticism is that shooting him ten times was ridiculous.

I will attack the ex-con angle as best as I can. These people sometimes dont understand why the world has rejected them. He realized he had done something wrong and tried to walk away. He was on drugs perhaps self medicating to a degree but we cant blame it on the drugs.

This is just sad. Yes, the police were eventually justified to use lethal force. But the police were also justified to not continue following him on foot.

Probably was having flashbacks -- arrests, childhood traumas, the god damn pen -- while he atoned on that walk. He got scared. When he was tased he was compelled to beat some ass which I feel as an observer he successfully carried out. I kind of feel based on the video he was actually compelled to beat some ass. The bad luck part for him was that the guy he beat up was a cop who had the ability to radio backup. Backup boys took his life.

Mental Health wrote:

I kind of feel based on the video he was actually compelled to beat some ass. The bad luck part for him was that the guy he beat up was a cop who had the ability to radio backup. Backup boys took his life.

Cool.

Agreed with person above - how can anyone claim this is a ‘good’ outcome.

Whilst I anticipate the responses about how life isn’t like movies and you cannot just shoot someone in the leg to immobilize them - this didn’t seem like a situation where someone had to die.

The initial use of the taser (which caused situation to escalate’ seemed excessive. Why go from just nonchalantly following him and not stopping us to that.

Small sample size I know but of the 10-12 LEO I know all are the type that get violent when drinking and violence junkies. Obviously don’t know this person but overall feel like vetting and training of cops needs significant enhancement.

Good 10 shots fired, like music to my ears

Americans are so free. Free to shoot

Shake my head.... wrote:

Agreed with person above - how can anyone claim this is a ‘good’ outcome.

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The initial use of the taser (which caused situation to escalate’ seemed excessive. Why go from just nonchalantly following him and not stopping us to that.

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A Terrible outcome (The worse possible in fact)

That being said...

The initial use of the taser was justified unless you want to let the suspect drive away and turn this into a car chase.

This is the typical scenario of I didn't respect the law and the law won!

I don't like cops in general.....Because too many can be As@ #LLs .

In this day and age if you show any violence towards a cop expect to be shot dead.

You can thank the violent offenders that don't hesitate to shoot cops for just about any reasons nowdays.

Peace...

4 cops against an unarmed dude and it's "justified." Only in America... because it's murder everywhere in the civilized world.

Blue lives matter -

In some weird parallel universe the guy actually stops when the policeman asks him to, answers a few questions and is free to go on with his day.

Watched the video and read the story. Seems like the world is a better place without this guy. Good riddance.

Geezus wrote:

4 cops against an unarmed dude and it's "justified." Only in America... because it's murder everywhere in the civilized world.

Nonsense.

60mpw is a lot wrote:

Ex-competitive distance runner turned crossfitter won’t get out of his vehicle, gets tased, then eats it from the police.

He had that baton in the CrossFit instructor like stance before he brought it up to batters stance and ate lead. So good I must say

https://youtu.be/6B22t-OmErA

Wow. Crazy and tragic. Hard to watch. Two things that are well known FACTS in the USA...

1) more guns = more death. Even we’ll trained cops—like those in the video—are not able to “shoot to wound” when under duress. This guy deserved jail time for sure but did not deserve the death penalty. But the video confirms that conceal carry is a terrible idea. If trained cops can’t shoot straight (they should’ve been shooting to wound, not kill) what chance to moran, gun-nuts like John Utah, Disco Gary, and OLD SMTC SOB have? None, zero. T@rds like the LRC RWNJ gun nuts would almost certainly shoot an innocent by-standard in a situation like this. Remember Thousand Oaks? In that recent shooting the Cop that died was actually killed by friendly fire, not the shooter. Wanna-be Rambos should not be allowed to carry guns in public—this video is further proof of that.

2) This video—once again—confirms the uncivilized and violent nature of one particular race in the stated. You know who you are...

Mental Health wrote:

I dont understand why they followed him to his car. He seemed to be walking off whatever was on his mind. The cop kept telling him to come here when the guy was walking away. He was not fleeing.

Then when he got tased of course he was pissed. He snapped.

Define "good"? This isnt "good". A potentially destructive human being was working through his emotions until the police provoked it again. It looks like this ended with a human tragedy. How is that "so good"?

Police provoked him? You are blaming the police? Idiot. The officer was conducting an investigation over a complaint and during such he asked several times the suspect to stop and talk, and the suspect decides to just walk away, It doesn't work like that. Furthermore tries to get in a car and flee. The officer gave him several lawful orders during the investigation, he got zapped and got combative and ultimately met his creator out of his own foolishness and stupidity.

Mental Health wrote:

I dont understand why they followed him to his car. He seemed to be walking off whatever was on his mind. The cop kept telling him to come here when the guy was walking away. He was not fleeing.

Then when he got tased of course he was pissed. He snapped.

Define "good"? This isnt "good". A potentially destructive human being was working through his emotions until the police provoked it again. It looks like this ended with a human tragedy. How is that "so good"?

Yes he was fleeing, passively, but was fleeing.