Tulsa County DA:Charges of manslaughter in 1st degree will be filed against Officer Betty Shelby

[geronl]

Can't imagine why anyone would want to be a cop today.  Not even in Mayberry. 

We really aren't too many degrees of change from anarchy, it seems.

The radicals need it to get bad enough that they can consider everyone a criminal.

[Resp3]

The radicals need it to get bad enough that they can consider everyone a criminal.

True. And when the radicals and the BLM crowd has even conservatives believing that COPS are the criminals here - then their job is halfway done.

 

[XenaLee]

Even if they were up - it doesn't matter. FTA...

Actually, it does matter.  It always matters when people lie to push a meme (Hands up, don't shoot) and an agenda that could and probably will destroy another innocent life. 

[NavyCanDo]

No.  A very big distinction.  She certainly didn't premeditate to shoot Crutcher, but her judgment was wrong in shooting him.

At this point we no nothing.   We don't even know if it was a "judgement" on her part to shoot him, or the tense situation and the taser firing next to her caused her to flinch or have an involuntary trigger pull. What is one of the primary rules to gun safety?  "Keep Your Finger Off The Trigger Until Ready to Shoot". And why is that? Because unintended discharge happens so easily and it happens often. With a 3.5lb trigger pull it doesn't take much.    I'm not claiming it was an accident at this point, but she deserves the right to prove her innocence in court as would anyone.

Trials by GOOGLE is what gave birth to this BLM movement in the first place.   

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Two threads on same subject have been merged.

[geronl]

Trials by GOOGLE is what gave birth to this BLM movement in the first place.

Nah, that's their new app where you can have your case adjudicated live by randomly selected online jurors from a pre-approved  pool. Saves a lot of money in lawyer fees and court costs.

Now they have to rename Trials By Google to Google Justice.... :p

 

[sinkspur]

Right. So she was not alone in believing lethal force was necessary. The fact that the cop used a Taser will help her substantially.

And what difference does it make if Crutcher had a gun or not? Stop parroting the media spin. Michael Brown didn't have a gun either. And he certainly definitely needed killing.

Tazing is not lethal force.  Period.  I think it will work against her that a fellow officer didn't draw his gun.

Michael Brown was APPROACHING Officer Wilson.  Crutcher was MOVING AWAY from Shields.