There are some good videos out there from her bodycam. She put 2 fingers in the guard while removing the pistol. Then after shooting him switched hands and put her finger on the trigger again…. I’d lose my mind on that department. My feeling is she was new and being trained. The cops using that opportunity to run through the process of disarming to train her and she ended up shooting him. Every person involved in her training should be investigated and retrained.
Yeah, I saw that one. Incompetence on every level. Although I don't ENTIRELY agree with removing a firearm 'for officer safety', in some cases I kind of get it. If a person has a CCW, odds are better than average that this person is NOT a threat. In this case, while compliant, the person did not have a CCW (Constitutional carry), so in reality, he was a complete unknown. There are a few ways that the firearm could have safely been removed without shooting him with his own firearm. One being simply remove it from the holster with YOUR BOOGER HOOK OFF THE BANG SWITCH! Another being, left hand on the butt, right hand thumb or palm on the back of the slide to keep it in the holster, and right fingers used to manipulate the clip of the clip on IWB holster to remove the whole thing in one motion (harder to describe than do). Bottom line is it was utter Incompetence and this is one where I do hope he gets a nice payday out of it.
They didn't stop him for having a firearm. I'm not sure what you're getting at with this being a fishing tactic.
They stopped him for running a red light.... Anything more than that is fishing/Terry stop
That's fine, good thing you didn't get shot for following directions, and have to pay restitution
Your logic is flawed. According to you, he could have said, "I have a dead body in the trunk." in response to their question, and they should have just ignored it.
Having a gun on one's person, is not enough reasonable articulatable suspicion to pull a person out of a vehicle, frisky them, and search the car, that is a violation of 4th amendment per multiple federal and state court rulings.
Firearm or not you can be ordered out of a vehicle.
We are going to have to agree to disagree on this. The video I saw never showed them search his car or frisk the man. I also never saw him raise any objection to being questioned about anything, he freely provided info about the firearm, and I never saw him raise any objection about exiting the vehicle or being disarmed. He allowed them to disarm him and got shot. That is unfortunate for the citizen and for sure gross negligence on the part of the officer. For sure worthy of punitive damages for the citizen in a civil court, but I'm not sure how it could rise to the level of criminal charges. I also don't see how it violates his constitutional rights.
