But this statement by the passenger disturbs me
people give others the middle finger and scream obscenities when they cant confront them and they are driving off and know they cant have a face to face confrontation.
They also were the ones that emptied 2 clips into the guy on a crowded street, injuring several innocent folks with stray rounds/ricochets. Not disagreeing with ya but this same traffic stop in say, Dallas or LA or Seattle or EMA Iowa (East Mules Azz) would almost certainly not have ended with a dead driver. I'm just hoping the real facts are brought to light and *if* the officer took the wrong actions he is punished accordingly. If the was justified in the shooting they will need to prove it *really* well seeing as there was (according to all reports thus far) no weapon in the suspect car.
it can and does happen and on the side of a NYC freeway its pretty tight and hard to hear and see late at night. chit can go south there real fast!
lets not forget that the NYPD has between 35,000 and 40,000 officers! the law of averages say they as a department are likely to have a high number of shootings good and bad. thats way more cops then the entire state of Connecticut has.
they have their 10%'ers just like every other profession does but thats a pretty squared away police department and making detective there is a big deal.
the detective could have overreacted or the operator could have pointed his phone at him and he thought it was a gun.??? people are stupid sometimes and point their smart phones at you as ur walking up to the car saying how they are calling the police on you for stopping them.
a lotta people have no problem killing a cop or anyone else for that matter.
ive been stopped in NY city. my hands are on the sterring wheels and my interior lights are on. im respectful and dont make any sudden movements. they dont know me. cops just dont walk up to cars and shoot people in the stomach. BS! that may happen in the movies but in real life the operator did something to make the cop think he was pointing a gun at him! there doesnt NEED to be a gun to shoot someone. the threat of is just as deadly and just as defendable.
or.... the cop could have made a bad decision. that happens often to but more likely then not the operator has put the cop in that position by the way they are acting or driving. its possible they had to chase this kids car for a period of time. when cops are in unmarked units in the city their hard to see sometimes and the cops could have thought he was trying to screw on him and maybe he was? who knows? a lot of "what if's"...
lets not forget that the NYPD has between 35,000 and 40,000 officers! the law of averages say they as a department are likely to have a high number of shootings good and bad. thats way more cops then the entire state of Connecticut has.
they have their 10%'ers just like every other profession does but thats a pretty squared away police department and making detective there is a big deal.
the detective could have overreacted or the operator could have pointed his phone at him and he thought it was a gun.??? people are stupid sometimes and point their smart phones at you as ur walking up to the car saying how they are calling the police on you for stopping them.
a lotta people have no problem killing a cop or anyone else for that matter.
ive been stopped in NY city. my hands are on the sterring wheels and my interior lights are on. im respectful and dont make any sudden movements. they dont know me. cops just dont walk up to cars and shoot people in the stomach. BS! that may happen in the movies but in real life the operator did something to make the cop think he was pointing a gun at him! there doesnt NEED to be a gun to shoot someone. the threat of is just as deadly and just as defendable.
or.... the cop could have made a bad decision. that happens often to but more likely then not the operator has put the cop in that position by the way they are acting or driving. its possible they had to chase this kids car for a period of time. when cops are in unmarked units in the city their hard to see sometimes and the cops could have thought he was trying to screw on him and maybe he was? who knows? a lot of "what if's"...
no im just pointing out that they have a chit load of cops. more then many states do so its only natural to have incidents like this considering how many cops there where the same uniform. if he screwed up he screwed up. it does happen but a NY city detective just walking up to the car and shooting someone cause he's pissed of is BS!
