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Originally Posted by Nine17
Or handled firearms... Or practiced law... I too looked at the available videos frame-by-frame. It looks like a case of negligent handling of a handgun in a highly-charged and stressful situation. He doesn't aim the gun at the man on the ground. It's pointing right at him as it is drawn from the officer's holster and already had a cartridge in the chamber because guns had already been drawn and holstered earlier. All it takes is an errant finger. I've seen situations where handguns were discharged into the leg of the person drawing the gun, with similarly fatal results. Under California law this is at most misdemeanor Involuntary Manslaughter. It is only because of the politically-charged situation that this isn't being treated simply as a tragic accident. I can't tell if the officer decided to draw his firearm because the decedent appeared to constitute a threat or whether he saw a threat from the crowd. I now doubt that he'll ever tell us why he drew his firearm because he is faced with a witch-hunt environment. Instead he gave up his career and his pension to avoid making statements which could be turned against him in a politically-motivated prosecution.
The people to blame are EVERY belligerent drunk on that BART platform. If they were behaving themselves, none of these tragic events would have unfolded.
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OMFG.
Now i've heard everything.
PS:
To Competent one: in the video you can clearly see both the victims hands behind his back and they do not move from that postion even after he was shot. Even AFTER he is shot his arms stay behind his back.
See, i have some street and "tactical" experience. Pay some god-damned attention 'n00b'.
Check out the second by second play by play breakdown in this video. About 2:30-2:40 is the part in question. The guys hands are clearly restrained. He continues on at length and again there is a play by play slow mo at about 3:30ish that also shows the same thing, the man is handcuffed. Of course some of us don't need slow mo to notice that the guys hands STAY in the interlaced handcuffed position even as, and after, being shot.
Because he was handcuffed.
And he was NOT resisting, he was laying face down and had put both his hands behind his back without resistance (or perhaps more accurately: with minimal resistance) as the officer moved them into place. If he had been struggling the cops would have all had to fight to get the cuffs on. Which is clearly not the case. Again, watch the video, it's all in there. Clearly.
http://leathermenace.multiply.com/video/item/252/Proof_Oscar_Grant_Was_HandCuffed_and_THEN_SHOT_by_ Bart_Police_officer?replies_read=11