The trial hinged on the following 17 seconds, which saw the Audi reverse a short distance, hitting an unmarked car behind, then accelerate forward, reaching an estimated 12mph before colliding with the BMW and a parked Tesla.
Armed officers were heard shouting “go, go, go” and “armed police, get out of the f***ing car,” as they surrounded the vehicle, in footage played in court.
The Audi then reversed at 8mph, hitting the unmarked Volvo behind, and was stationary as Mr Blake pulled the trigger of his carbine less than a second later
Some context for people who won’t click the article
Police consider a moving vehicle a deadly weapon. Thus, if you’re trying to flee from them by driving, especially in an erratic manner, you’re considered to be wielding a deadly weapon and they can thereby respond with lethal force.
Agree or disagree, this is the logic.
Even calling it logic is pushing it.
“Pretense”, “excuse”, or “bloodlust-induced delusion” would be more accurate.
By that “logic”, they’d be justified in murdering every single motorist for at some point swerving unexpectedly.
You know that people are killed by cars, like, all the time right?
People are killed by their bodies much more often, want people to be murdered on the street for operating THOSE “erratically” too?
There’s simply no justification for shooting someone who’s not imminently and acutely endangering the life of someone else.
Driving into another car at 15mph does NOT do that.
Let’s all take a moment to not at the bottom of the article that it says since 1990 only 83 people have died in such incidents. That is a goal the US could never hope to achieve in my lifetime.
So any background on what the cops knew at the time? It says the car was reported to have been involved in a shooting at a school… but no gus were found and it was night I think. Also I have heard others say (but haven’t seen in an article) that the car was stolen and the guy who died had a rap sheet. I doubt the cops knew who he was, but they might have known the car was stolen. But if they knew none of these things, that would be a pretty stark picture.
He was supposedly a “Core member of a gang, and a gunman in a nightclub shooting” days before this incident unfolded.