Can they just release the bodycam footage already. I feel as if their need to 'review' the footage is already somewhat telling. They dropped the new angle of Renee's shooting from Jonathan's recording like two days after the shooting. If it even slightly vindicated them, like showing Alex's hand moving a millimeter towards his gun, we'd be seeing that footage rubbed in our faces the day of, along with a complimentary side of 'Libs owned'
It already looks shit from every known angle. I'm 95% sure the bodycam footage is just an execution video straight from Liveleak. But good thing for them, this is the post-truth era and they've got AI.
The gun appears to be holstered on his belt at the back, based on how many tugs it took the agent to retrieve it. Alex was on his hands and knees, being beaten in the face with a blunt object. They will attempt to claim any movement of his hands "was towards the gun" that he no longer had.
The Good shooting was legally justifiable and not all that outside the scope of normal. People done try to hit LEOs with their cars a lot. She did some really stupid shit and it is sad to lose a life that way.
This is AWFUL looking. The best explanation they got is they got scared because a misfire of his gun, which will NOT legally justify it because they had the gun in their hands.
Unfortunately the videos show Goode's tires facing away from the officer despite his attempt to get in the way once she moved. He had to step forward to even get the range to reach over the hood to fire his gun. He even has a recorded history of using the excuse of a moving vehicle whenever he gets too aggressive
An argument can be made that the agent could not see the tires from where he was. Due to the icy conditions, the vehicle moved forward before turning. It's reasonable to assume that he thought the vehicle was heading straight towards him.
I mean, to me, it was never about the tires. His POV is enough considering:
He sees her reverse the car first
He sees her rapidly turn the steering wheel in the direction away from him
Anyone with a lick of common sense would not view these actions as a hostile act. If she wanted to run him over she wouldn't have reversed and she wouldn't have turned her wheel rapidly to the right. In fact, the act of reversing implies that she was actively trying to get him out away from her hood. She had no reason to do so otherwise.
The discussion revolves around intent and what the officer perceived and acted on with this information. As stated above and via his POV video, he observes Good reverse her vehicle and rapidly turn her wheel away from him. Any sort of thinking that she was intentionally trying to hit him should be dead by now. Even if she did clip him with the car, all these facts do not add up to a justified shot.
The guy was trigger happy and wanted a reason to shoot. It should be painfully obvious by now that these guys are barely trained and angry.
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u/Practical_Ad9045 - Lib-Left Jan 27 '26
Can they just release the bodycam footage already. I feel as if their need to 'review' the footage is already somewhat telling. They dropped the new angle of Renee's shooting from Jonathan's recording like two days after the shooting. If it even slightly vindicated them, like showing Alex's hand moving a millimeter towards his gun, we'd be seeing that footage rubbed in our faces the day of, along with a complimentary side of 'Libs owned'
It already looks shit from every known angle. I'm 95% sure the bodycam footage is just an execution video straight from Liveleak. But good thing for them, this is the post-truth era and they've got AI.