Oh Im sorry I thought motioning to take your fucking gun out of the holster in front of a cop in a heated environment is reason enough for the cops to start freaking out..or does that apply only if hes not white?
Holding your hand on a holstered weapon is not an imminent threat to an officer's life. If the weapon was unholstered or the subject was actively resisting arrest, the officer's response would have been different.
No he was not. he was adjusting.
Lol. Ok man. I guess all people squirming around are just "adjusting", none are trying to get free at all.
he had been arrested multiple times before, why the fuck would he do anythign unusual now that he didn't before,
Because sometimes people do things differently in different situations? Are you seriously stating that 100% of all people that shoot at police officers, that is their first time being arrested? That is ridiculous.
i dont see how he could have gone for his weapon when one hand was below him and a cop was sitting on the other. tried being in that position? its fucking painful and triggers a fight or flight response.
His right hand was free and moving around. It was not restrained. Did we watch the same video?
- run as soon as he saw the cops if he was actually guilty
Yes, all guilty people run from the police. If you don't run, you are obviously innocent. What an excellent and well reasoned argument.
- picked out the gun and shot the cops as soon as he saw them
Plenty of people don't pull a gun on cops immediately. Here is an example:
- drawn his gun out as soon as he saw the cops, in which case the cops would have drawn theirs out and he would have been shot from further away
So drawing a weapon is OK ground for being shot, but reaching for one while resisting arrest is not?
- or just hang around wondering why there are flashing lights around him, talk to the cops and then get taken down, and the cops panic and shoot him from less than a foot away.
That didn't happen. He didn't "talk to the cops and then get taken down", he refused to follow verbal orders, continued to resist while tased (twice) and then started reaching towards a weapon.
you didnt answer this: are the cops ninjas? did they appear out of thin air? or do they come with lights flashing and asking this guy to hold his ground (which he complied with)? in any time between he saw the cop cars coming, pulling over, and saw the cops approaching he could have either run or used his gun. he didn't. youre basically telling me this guy, when he was sat on by the cops - the cops were on top of him, was "resisting" (i can concede this if you want because i call it a involuntary fight or flight response but thatas just splitting hairs), and actually decided to pick out his gun and shoot cops?
See link above. People don't always immediately pull their weapon on an officer.
how do people pick out his past criminal record when convenient and disregard when inconvenient?
I didn't bring up his criminal record.
do you think this guy was dumb or unaware of cops, or had no relationship with cops? more than some first time arrestee he was more aware of how cops would behave, which is why he attempted to neither run away or shoot them.
he had the motives (he could have held a grudge for being arrested many times). he had the means (he had a gun on him when cops were approaching him). he had the opportunity (two cops came to him). he could have run. he could have shot his gun. he could have pulled down his pants and taken a dump to give a finger to the man. he did none of those things. he didn't take a shot when they were 5 feet away, or when they were 10 feet away. he may have become indignant, argued (poor choice) and been taken down due to a heat of the moment response. none of that warrants his death. none of that warrants anyones death. you're being incredibly disingeuous if you're not seeing any of this.
Again, see above linked YouTube example.
even if his response was poor, is police training so trigger happy that they shoot anyone who they think may shoot them but hasn't actually shot them? are they protecting a dignitary or are they going after a low level thug?
Police are entitled to their lives as much as he is to his. If a man is resisting arrest while armed and reaching towards that weapon, that is an imminent threat to the officers life. There is no other logical reason for someone to reach towards a weapon in that situation.