I’ve watched it several times. It appears that the suspect locked in on the primary officer and never even noticed the secondary flanking the door. I wish I could see the suspects right hand just before shots being fired. I’ve seen people appear to be compliant only to try and get you to drop your guard. It’s very possible he was drawing the weapon as he appeared to be complying and just had bad situational awareness, overlooking the officer right behind him. I don’t believe you can take that video at face value and I can guarantee the officer didn’t want to have to shoot the guy.

The body cams are worn on the chest. It gives you the perspective seen by the officer but not exactly what the officer sees and its ridiculous to think that the officer has been waiting to shoot someone. I worked narcotics and SRT for years. There’s more to the story is all I’m saying. The video only shows part of what’s happening.

The body cams are worn on the chest. It gives you the perspective seen by the officer but not exactly what the officer sees and its ridiculous to think that the officer has been waiting to shoot someone. I worked narcotics and SRT for years. There’s more to the story is all I’m saying. The video only shows part of what’s happening.

There’s idiots in every profession. That’s not to say the secondary officer was just wanting to smoke someone. As far as your question goes, I have no idea if the officer is in jail. I’m guessing that’s going to be up to a jury.

The only officer shooting that I see is the one behind him. 3 shots and it seems that he is the only one showing recoil. By the shooting officers cam, I cannot really see the victims right hand. You can clearly see it by the other officers cam. Not being able to see the victims hand in my opinion would be worse. Now you are shooting someone on a guess? That's some pretty poor decision making. The officer that fired, in my opinion, should be brought up on manslaughter charges. It's not murder, it's not justifiable homicide and it's not involuntary manslaughter. Manslaughter seems to fit here and he should do some time. If I was on the grand jury with evidence here, I would vote to have him indicted.

Lot bad killer cops around like that, like I say, don't got have gun or knife to get shot by cop, all stuff u see go on Huns, when buy muzzloader. Plenty interrest handgun sales an next day when got black powder accessories, bunch hot heads check out handguns for conceal carry, one them almost push me out way

Are we watching different videos or am I confused? By the "officer behind him" do you mean the officer to the right of the doorway if you were in the hall looking at the door? If so, that is the ONLY video I saw the gun in, with the suspect reaching for it right after he was told to put his hands in the air.

If he really didn't hear them say they were cops, he should have asked who it was before he opened the door.

I didn't think he came out necessarily in an aggressive manner. More like he just opened the door with a gun in his hand. He seemed surprised that it was the police. In this case, having the gun in his hand is what caused his death. What were the police to do, wait until he shot at them first? They had no way of knowing what his intentions were. I feel their actions were justified.

They had no way of knowing what his intentions were..

So anytime you have a gun in your hand a cop is justified in shooting you? I only ask as I imagine being a trapper you may have a gun in your hand often.