Police attempt to kill man at McDonald’s? (US)

Meh, more garbage news from wacky America.

Guy seems to knock the car into reverse as he asked why whether by accident or what I don’t know.cop reacts like he’s gotten a fright for some reason. Kind of jumps into action suddenly. Weird.

Yep. Opening fire as he did looks massively out of proportion for the offence. Maybe more to it.

It's disturbing but not surprising.

The first 5 shots, okay we all get spooked 🤷‍♂️, but stopping and then firing next 5? That is an attempted execution.

Also unloading 10 bullets in an area that has bound to have other people around is bananas. He has no idea if their is anyone in that parked red car or if he is firing directly through the window in the building.

But but but, lets not jump to conclusions. The lunatic should be in prison.

This is the answer

Zero excuse for cop here, I don't care what the kid did, putting the car into reverse was to drive away, but I'm sure they'll twist it that he drove at him with car to kill him, so he shot back, thankfully video is there to show a scared kid fleeing, not a raging lunatic driving into a cop at 80 mph to kill him, if there was no video this is exactly what the cop would claim though

Before I start, I'm just stating facts here. I couldn't care less about any of the people involved on this, nor the country it took place in.

It's scant on info, specifically the incident the day before, ie: the reason he approached this vehicle again (plates didn't match the vehicle). The approach was wrong, imo, but no one can say he accidentally put it in reverse. He made a very obvious and clear decision, imo, to go into reverse and start moving away. I also heard "why?" being said as he was doing it.

The shooting itself is, as expected in 'Merica, over the top, excessive and unnecessary ?with the current info). But, I've also seen worse and warranted.

Cop is fired anyway, was only in the job 7 months and still in probation. Someone got a bit too excited I'd imagine and let their imagination run away with itself and created a violent situation in his head which didn't match reality. There's probably more to come against the cop.

Still, I'd never be a cop over there!

There is more to this than a random incident of a cop deciding to shoot someone for eating a burger......

I'm not saying it was right, but it clearly was not a completely random event.

Yet the statistics show incredible restraint in the American police.

The number of unarmed people shot dead each year by them, nevermind innocent people, is incredibly small, especially given how violent and armed the society they police is.

There really aint much police training it seems just try to make sure you know which bit of the gun to point away from you and just start blasting seems to be the extent of it.

2018 statistics show that: " About 61.5 million residents had at least one contact with police."

That's an incredibly high number and shows that most cases are just routine and the controversial ones only make up a tiny percentage of the overall total. It's even more impressive given how many firearms are floating around as well as the drugs and general violence issues.

In the same year, there were 39,740 gun deaths (24,432 suicides - 13,958 homicides) which equates to 109 per day. 983 of these were shot by cops. 458 of these were white and 228 black.

Overall that shows that gun deaths by cops per encounter with the public are about .0015% which for a gun ridden society is lower that I would have expected.

2018 Police stats from here:  https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cbpp18st.pdf

And here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/

Thank you.

It will be a consolation that I was exceptional in leaving life as I was in living it.

The cop was sacked, but it's likely he will end up getting a job at another department

In some case they are very much aware of who and what they are hiring,

if this op has made anything clear in his many many cop bashing posts it is that he doesn't care about dead cops, it goes against his agenda

I tried to point that out to him once and he sent me 50 odd unsolicited PM for a few weeks.

The cop's have shot and killed thousands literally thousands over the last 30 years,

No in a lot of case's it's a simple case of trigger happy cops who rarely lose their jobs or face the courts for shooting unarmed civilian's

I'd make sure to shoot first