Originally Posted by mrtdg82:
“This is where it's rather complicated and we can't judge an incident on face value.
I bet that if you ask all Americans if the would shoot an intruder fleeing from their house, they would. They have guns and feel it's within their right to shoot someone on their property, combine that with adrenaline, fear etc and that's why they make that judgement call.
It's likely this officer has done the same thing. An altercation with the taser, the guy has made off and in panic he has shot him.
Had there been no struggle, no altercation and the guy just run you have a clear case of murder.
In this case you have mitigating circumstances, albeit for us it's easy just to label it as, shot him in the back when running therefore must be murder.
For me it's manslaughter and chuck a bit of perverting the course of justice in there for messing about with the scene.
Of course I could be totally wrong and evidence could come out that he was a nazi supporter who vowed to kill a black man.”
“This is where it's rather complicated and we can't judge an incident on face value.
I bet that if you ask all Americans if the would shoot an intruder fleeing from their house, they would. They have guns and feel it's within their right to shoot someone on their property, combine that with adrenaline, fear etc and that's why they make that judgement call.
It's likely this officer has done the same thing. An altercation with the taser, the guy has made off and in panic he has shot him.
Had there been no struggle, no altercation and the guy just run you have a clear case of murder.
In this case you have mitigating circumstances, albeit for us it's easy just to label it as, shot him in the back when running therefore must be murder.
For me it's manslaughter and chuck a bit of perverting the course of justice in there for messing about with the scene.
Of course I could be totally wrong and evidence could come out that he was a nazi supporter who vowed to kill a black man.”
I would agree that this is a voluntary manslaughter / deliberate homicide level incident most likely, because I suspect that the officer will testify that he believed that he was justified to shoot following the taser grabbing incident.



