Whenever police officers use armed force when they believe there's a threat to themselves or others, that's referred to as a "good shoot."
By any stretch of even hate-filled imagination, this qualifies as a "good shoot."
I'm assured by someone who disagrees of the following:
He was firing before he stepped in front of her car. I’ve seen it in slow motion over 20 times. He could have moved she wanted to leave he blocked her. He shot her 3 X!!!!! It was completely unnecessary and to call her a domestic terrorist is disgusting.
Well, the person telling me this is wrong.
While in college, I completed the degree requirements for an Administration of Justice AA degree, meaning I had completed training not unlike that of a police officer. I have training in threat assessment and the use of deadly force.
In this instance, I've seen a great many videos from a great many POV's of this incident.
This video, which is part of a presentation by "The Officer Tatum," a former police officer himself, makes it clear that the quoted statement above is in error.
I include the link so the viewer can see what I am talking about.
At this point, ICE officers are rolling up to an illegally parked car which has attempted to block the use of ICE vehicles. The officer involved in the shooting is already on the ground to the passenger-side of the darker vehicle (SUV) in front of the truck
ICE leaves the truck, approached the SUV, tells the driver to get out of the car: (Note the driver's side window is down so the driver clearly heard the command to get out of the car.)
At this point, one of the ICE officers attempted to open the driver side door. Note the car is in reverse and backing up as shown by the backup (white) taillights coming on.
Here, the driver has shifted the car out of reverse. Note the lack of brake lights as the driver shifts the car into drive.
At this point, the ICE officer who fired at the driver has moved to the front of the vehicle (Mostly blocked by the ICE Agent next to the driver side door. Note that he is NOT firing his weapon and, at this point, has yet to draw his weapon.
Looking closely at the lower picture with the arrow makes it even clearer that the Agent had not drawn his gun at this point as the butt of his sidearm is clearly visible still in his holster.
The ICE officer did not draw his weapon UNTIL the vehicle started moving forward. Contrary to the assertion above, he was NOT firing his weapon "before he stepped in front of the car." As this video has shown, he had not drawn his weapon TO fire it as he is clearly in front of the car... and did not do so until the car began to move forward, essentially directly at him.
At this point, she has started to move forward towards the officer in front of the car and it's only THEN that he fires his weapon while also being struck by the vehicle.
Clearly, as the officer fired, the vehicle is moving forward towards him.
He fires again as the vehicle continues to move forward
At this point, it's likely the driver had been shot in the head and the vehicle continues to move forward, picking up speed until the SUV rammed what appears to be a parked car roughly 60 yards down the road.
He fired 3 times, apparently, and I do not know for a certainty that he hit her 3 times.
But when it comes to training, the training is to stop the threat. Ultimately, that's what happened.
And typically, when police fire their weapon, it's rare that they only fire once when they feel their lives or the lives of others ARE endangered.
From this angle, it appears to be clear that the ICE officer was struck by the vehicle. The blur in front of the vehicle is from the vehicle hitting the officer. (This is also part of the Tatum video)
You can hear the first shot only AFTER the vehicle hit the officer, again disproving the allegation that he was firing "...before he stepped in front of the car."
For many, their strong feelings in the entire deportation issue cloud their judgement. They frequently believe what they're told, even in the face of actual evidence. I, on the other hand, am "cursed" by actual training and knowledge of when to use deadly force.
This is one of those times. Those ICE officers were there with actual, specific, arrest warrants. And these people have been so thoroughly programmed that they didn't care.
The left is upset that ICE is arresting people WITHOUT warrants... and they obstructed THESE officers who HAD warrants.
Clearly, the issue of warrants is merely an excuse. And comments by the Minneapolis City Council, who voted overwhelmingly to disbanding their police department is the kind of thing that has resulted in a massive increase in assaults against ICE officers and other violence the left has perpetrated.
In the end, this was a "good shoot."
It's tragic in its own way, but the reality is that all too often, stupid games result in stupid prizes.
This is one of those times.
I'm sure lawsuits will be filed. After all who has deeper pockets than the Fed?
But realistically, there's no grounds to sue anyone but local police who clearly failed to do their jobs, for whatever the reason, to protect ICE Officers as they were doing THEIR jobs.
