Shooting of Calif. man holding water nozzle angers family

[Jokersvirus]

Both sides make valid arguments over the shooting. Family says they did approach or say anything to him and opened fire when he pointed it. On the cop side they were looking out for the good of the people by containing the area and getting positions incase something went down, he pointed the object at an officer and they had no other option.


Anyway it will be a lose lose situation for the police department one way or another.

They could lose community support, money if they get sued, officers etc etc..

My side is with the officers till more information comes to light that suggest they were in the wrong.

[LemonRising]

Shame really ) : just.. augh.

There has got to be a better way to handle that situation.
Stuff like this is what makes people fear the police, instead of feeling safe like they should.
Misunderstandings are dangerous.

[Jokersvirus]

Misunderstandings are dangerous, and your right it makes the peopel fear the police yet the police had no other options once that object was pointed at the officer they had to fire. People only see it from the side of the victim, the officers are the victim here they had something pointed at them that made them fear for their lives so they defended themselves.

[LemonRising]

yeah police can only do so much with the tools and training that they're provided with.

Its just a horrible situation ) :

[Jokersvirus]

It is I feel bad for the family but I feel for the law enforcement officers

[Th3-devils-princess]

Joker your saying that it was his fault that he was shot to death! At the end of the day they didn't need to kill him they could have easily wounded him I mean the pain of being shot would have been enough from preventing him from picking "the gun" back up!
I agree with you iceskater and joker did all 8 shots hit him?? Something we won't know
And Linux I suppose you have a point it dose only takes a few seconds it's still really sad though

[Jokersvirus]

As harsh as it sounds Devil I am saying it was his fault., whos fault would be? Its not the officers they didnt do anything by defend themselves. The thing about wounding suspects they are trained to hit center mass, which is where all our major organs are, of course, Im willing to bet that about 2 to 3 bullets hit the suspect and hit very major organs.