04-21-2021, 12:38 AM
Lemon Drop wrote:
[quote=Ted King]
A lot of trials of police officers charged with injuring or killing someone involve the juries being asked to make the judgment that in a few quick seconds or less that an officer made the wrong decision to fire their weapon. There's a good chance the officer who shot 13 year old Adam Toledo in Chicago won't face any charges, but if he does the jury will have to find that he made an unreasonable decision to fire in that split second.
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By that logic it is not possible to comply with police orders to surrender. The cop yelled "drop the f÷cking gun" and he did.
Why bother to even say that? The child dropped whatever was in his hand and put up both hands, facing the police. Why should he then be
Shot to death?
He tossed the gun around the fence with his hand moving in front of his body shielded from the officers view. In the same movement he turned his body around to face the officer(which wasn't commanded) and the hand that had the gun in it was still not visible the entire time he was turning. The officer had no idea that the gun was dropped and didn't have any way of knowing that. This happened in .8 of a second in low light. He had a life or death split second choice to make. Shoot or given the best available knowledge be shot. It is easy to say after the fact it was the wrong choice once you have all the information and time to process it.