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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEx-cop nails CNN’s police apologist: You don’t get to kill somebody just because you say you’re scar
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/ex-cop-nails-cnns-police-apologist-you-dont-get-to-kill-somebody-just-because-you-say-youre-scared/Ex-cop nails CNNs police apologist: You dont get to kill somebody just because you say youre scared
Travis Gettys
23 Sep 2016 at 09:10 ET
Even after Officer Betty Shelby was charged with first-degree manslaughter, CNNs chief police apologist still isnt sure Terence Crutchers death was unjustified.
Harry Houck, a law enforcement analyst for CNN, said he didnt know if there was enough evidence to charge the Tulsa police officer because he hadnt seen every available piece of information from the fatal encounter.
I dont know yet, because I dont know enough evidence regarding this case, he said. If I do a further analysis, when more comes out on the case Ill take a look at it and Ill make my own decision based on that. But right now we dont know enough.
Another panelist, retired Los Angeles police sergeant Cheryl Dorsey, said prosecutors had likely charged Shelby because she unnecessarily put herself in harms way before firing the fatal gunshots.
What we do know is that the tactics that led up to this deadly force incident were deplorable, Dorsey said. She took herself from a position of cover and concealment, she walked up on someone who she said was scaring her more than shes ever been scared in her entire life (and) created a situation where now deadly force had to be used.
Dorsey also wondered what had made Shelby so fearful, because she did not articulate her concerns in her statement to investigators.
What was it? If you were in fear, why are you running up on him? she said. You dont just get to say, Im in fear, and now olly olly oxen free you get to kill somebody. Someone failing to comply does not require lethal force.
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Ex-cop nails CNN’s police apologist: You don’t get to kill somebody just because you say you’re scar (Original Post)
babylonsister
Sep 2016
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EV_Ares
(6,587 posts)1. I don't know why CNN has that guy on because he is almost as bad as that Sheriff Joe.
citood
(550 posts)2. She's got a big problem
Because the cop right next to her pulled out a taser...obvious question is why didn't he think he needed to pull out his gun.