Don't matter if you're trained or untrained, nobody's dying from a taser from 20 to 25 feet away.

That's a bullshit excuse.

I believe the base can be used as a stun gun after the barbs are fired, but to "shoot" the thing you need to reload the barbs.

Therefore, the weapon he was running with was already discharged, and a much lesser threat.

I have also read six shots fired, now this says two bullet wounds.

Did this cop shoot four errant rounds into an area full of civilians?

Another case of ... MURDER ONE!

!!!!!!

I firmly believe the murderer of George Floyd formed the intent to murder, and it should be murder one. This case, probably not.

Murder is murder with a couple of narrow exceptions:

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I'd be more comfortable with included charges, give the jury an option if they "just can't convict a cop".

Premeditation in states with murder 1 isn't just intent though, it's thinking about it ahead, planning, so forth and so on - i.e. you wake up thinking "I'm going to go through with my plan to kill John Smith today". In NY this would be a murder 2 charge; he "intentionally" killed a man, he meant or at least knew that his actions would likely result in death, but he didn't "premeditate" in the legal sense.

Chauvin committed cold-blooded murder, and I am convinced he intended to do so.

At least in the NY State sense which is what most people think of. Chauvin would have had to deliberately planned ahead of time to get a hold of Floyd and kill him for murder 1. He certainly meant to intentionally cause death, but that's still "just" 2. Gets you 15-ta-life here, it's not much lesser a charge than 25ta for murder 1.

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TASER advertises their own product is non lethal. It's murder.

DA Promising charges mid-week.

Interview cops - likely defense wpould be "use of force justified and reasonable'.

Thanks.

The people of the State of Georgia may disagree. We shall see what we see.

-Laelth

They would not only find out that you had a parking ticket 10 years ago, but if they shoot you they make a woman a widow and orphan 3 children.

That might be helpful knowledge.

Be interacting with.

Clearly Mr Brooks just wanted to get someplace safe.

suspect is a threat to others if he gets away. Doesn’t appear case here.

However, I think the taser, resisting arrest, and struggle will complicate things. Shooting still wasn’t right, but this is more complicated than Chauvin murdering a handcuffed, cooperative man.

Even R. Brook’s family’s attorney wasn’t sure about criminal charges today, like he was yesterday before seeing the videos.

It’s just a shame, especially for Brooks who doesn’t get a chance to give his side. I honestly don’t know what I might do if police were handcuffing me behind my back. I could very well panic.

If the taser was fired the Union rep is full of shit. Once the cartridge is discharged and the leads are not stuck in a persons skin it is a useless object.