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https://www.abc15.com/news/region-southeast-valley/tempe/tempe-police-release-body-cam-video-after-teen-burglary-suspect-shot-and-killed
The cop's body cam video is at one of the links.
Basically, cop gets a call about a suspicious vehicle in an alley. Cop approaches the vehicle and the kid inside bolts. Cop shoots the kid.
Damn.
Once again, deadly force is something you use when there are no other options. It's a matter of IMMINENT threat of death or great bodily harm. A kid running away from you DOES NOT constitute such a threat unless he turns to shoot or was just involved in a dangerous crime that you witnessed.
Just...yeah, the kid was, apparently, breaking into cars. Yeah, it seems the kid had an Airsoft pistol on him. Still, THERE WAS NO THREAT that warranted deadly force.
The cop's body cam video is at one of the links.
Basically, cop gets a call about a suspicious vehicle in an alley. Cop approaches the vehicle and the kid inside bolts. Cop shoots the kid.
Damn.
Once again, deadly force is something you use when there are no other options. It's a matter of IMMINENT threat of death or great bodily harm. A kid running away from you DOES NOT constitute such a threat unless he turns to shoot or was just involved in a dangerous crime that you witnessed.
Just...yeah, the kid was, apparently, breaking into cars. Yeah, it seems the kid had an Airsoft pistol on him. Still, THERE WAS NO THREAT that warranted deadly force.