On Wednesday, March 13, the Napa County District Attorney's Office released surveillance footage of a shooting by an American Canyon police officer in Vallejo
Officer Joshua Coleman chased and shot an 18 year old in the back while they ran. Then had the audacity to tell him "I’m going to save your life.".
This is the fifth (as if this article) shooting that this lunatic has been involved in. He was previously found to have bent tip(s) on his badge, which is something cops do to mark their fatal shootings. ACAB.
I don't know man, I'm all for police oversight, but this isn't a great example. This dude is running around a neighbourhood with a gun. Who says he doesn't go into one of those houses and some innocent person gets hurt.
The cop yelled at him to drop the gun and stop running, he didn't.
The part of them trying to cover it up after is shitty, but the action itself I can't really take the criminal's side. Again, image that's my neighbour with my kids playing in the area, I don't want some lunatic running around with a gun.
I realise what sub I'm in, and this isn't a popular opinion and that's fine. We need police reform, but this isn't a good example.
When people jump on everything with the same fervor it weakens your case because people start tuning you out.
The sheriff’s office did not release body camera video of the shooting as the sheriff’s office said Officer Joshua Coleman’s body camera batteries died before the pursuit and he hadn’t been able to return to the charging station.
How the fuck do they not have 12 charged backup batteries and 2 chargers in every car?!?!? I mean, I know how, but what the actual fuck.
How come all the pro-gun fuckstains that claim "guns keep police honest" are never in these threads saying "the kid should have opened fire on the cop" or "people in nearby houses should have threatened the cop with a gun"?
But nope, they just stick to threads about gun control and peddle the same rhetoric that crystal gripping hippies have used for decades. "My cancer-preventing crystals didn't prevent your cancer? Damn, imagine how much cancer you would have had without the crystals. You basically owe me your life. You better buy more."
As an outsider it seems like America is a country full of people running around with guns and shooting each other. How does anyone there manage to relax?