Officer involved shooting in Kansas City.

Lets see:


Cops in my house

telling me to "whatever"

I run!

cops in the house start yelling, "FREEZE, FREEZE!"

Cop in the back yard hears this.

Now has "suspect" barreling at him!

By the actions of the man known to be under house arrest, the officer is forced to make a split second decision. "does he have a gun?"

What in this scenario could have been done differently?

Don't run from the cops if you have nothing to hide?

Mikeeee

(bring on the rebuttals) I have never been shot by a cop.

 

When the police say, "You are under arrest, or Freeze" and you chose to run, then you have chosen a path that might lead to bad things happening.

It does not matter if they were serving a parking ticket warrant. If you act irrationally then you should expect rash, instant reactions! Not always going in your favor!

In this day and age of violence I see no reason for law enforcement to try and assess, in a split second, if the fleeing subject is a hard working god fearing individual or a gangster with 7 kills.

Again, if the individual was innocent, why did he run and bring on this situation?

Mikeeee

 

Agreed Mikeeee,

I've never been one to have problems with cops, but did have a tense encounter when they showed up at my house (wrong address) for a domestic violence complaint. They started kind of aggressive, but quickly relaxed as I demonstrated to them I was following instructions. Soon after, they realized they were at the wrong address and I was left with an interesting experience. Anyway, my point is that I don't think people are at risk of getting shot if they would just do what the cops say. Sort out the details later, but for Pete's sake, do what you are told by the man with the gun.

 

They did say he was on house arrest for a theft conviction so tension was high. When you are a cop and a suspect you are trying to apprehend comes running in your direction with an unknown object in his hand split decisions have to be made.

He did have a history of running so he isn't your ordinary citizen but one that projects he doesn't like cops and will do anything to get away.

Let's say he did get his CDL. What would he do when the blue lights come on? Run in a big truck?

 

That's one person who doesn't need a cdl..