I looked at the bodycam stuff and looked into the story more.
The car he was driving was on felony charges from the night before. No one knows if it was him or not but that is how/why the cops were after him in the first place. He was driving away from them and they were chasing. He fired his gun out the car at least once, then left the gun and clip on the passenger seat. While the car was moving, he jumped out of it and began running.
There were 8 cops chasing him. One tried tasing him and he didn't drop. He kept running and eventually stopped and faced the cops and that is when all 8 of them unloaded their guns. Over 80 rounds fired, 60 of which ended up in his body.
This is where it gets sad. The gun that was left on the passenger seat was left with a wedding band. His fiance had died a month prior to this event in a car crash. I think the man was suicidal. This should be shining a light on the growing mental health problems of younger black men but people seem to be ignoring this.
Regardless of his mental state, this should never have happened this way. This was clear excessive force which is BEYOND explanation.
The car he was driving was on felony charges from the night before. No one knows if it was him or not but that is how/why the cops were after him in the first place. He was driving away from them and they were chasing. He fired his gun out the car at least once, then left the gun and clip on the passenger seat. While the car was moving, he jumped out of it and began running.
There were 8 cops chasing him. One tried tasing him and he didn't drop. He kept running and eventually stopped and faced the cops and that is when all 8 of them unloaded their guns. Over 80 rounds fired, 60 of which ended up in his body.
This is where it gets sad. The gun that was left on the passenger seat was left with a wedding band. His fiance had died a month prior to this event in a car crash. I think the man was suicidal. This should be shining a light on the growing mental health problems of younger black men but people seem to be ignoring this.
Regardless of his mental state, this should never have happened this way. This was clear excessive force which is BEYOND explanation.