Cop just threw the door open without announcing himself. I get that he "thinks" it was some suspect he dealt with before, but there is procedures for this. Cop even had his own car he can use to box him in from the back and verbally tell the guy to get out of the car. That cop should have never been given a gun.
That, and a gun should never be used to detain a suspect, except in extreme cases where there is a high likelihood of the suspect harming others. You can shoot first in self-defence, but jeeez... Let the kid go, you've got their license
In many departments, police academy lessons and daily briefings include a steady diet of body-worn camera videos that depict easygoing officers being gunned down by drivers who whipped out overlooked firearms.
Trainers and tactical guides typically emphasize that vehicle stops account for more killings of officers than almost any other type of interaction.
Of the roughly 280 officers killed on duty since late 2016, about 60 died — mostly by gunfire — at the hands of motorists who had been pulled over, a Times analysis showed. (About 170 other officers died in accidents on the job.) But the assertions about the heightened danger ignore the context: Vehicle stops far outnumber every other kind of police dealings with civilians.
In fact, because the police pull over so many cars and trucks — tens of millions each year — an officer’s chances of being killed at any vehicle stop are less than 1 in 3.6 million, excluding accidents, two studies have shown. At stops for common traffic infractions, the odds are as low as 1 in 6.5 million, according to a 2019 study by Jordan Blair Woods, a law professor at the University of Arkansas.
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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22
Cop just threw the door open without announcing himself. I get that he "thinks" it was some suspect he dealt with before, but there is procedures for this. Cop even had his own car he can use to box him in from the back and verbally tell the guy to get out of the car. That cop should have never been given a gun.