What instructions? Where is the clear recording that evidences instructions were given?
They had the chance to park outside the average accurate range of a pistol and use their PA system while the cover officer pulled the rifle or shotgun out of the center console most marked vehicles seem to have. People in vehicles rarely get life-threatening GSWs from those outside them. If they drove right up to the suspect to expose themselves to hostile fire, they are Darwin Award stupid and it's just a matter of time before a real criminal shoves their suicidal "tactics" up their ass.
This seems like one of too many idiotic OIS where suicidal cops roll right up on the perp and exit the much higher safety of their vehicle to leave no choice but to have to open fire.
Where is the evidence the cops decided to execute the kid on sight, with no verbal warnings or commands given?
How brave of you to second-guess emergency responders from the comfort of your armchair or yoga ball.
Why don't you join the force and show those dumb cops the proper way to deal with a 911 call about an armed dude terrorizing the local park with a gun?
Is it because you can't pass the physical? No doubt.
But it's also because you would rather shift blame from the individual who created the situation to those society assigns the thankless task of dealing with it.
Where they park their car does not matter, unless they are dealing with an active shooter, they are not going to be taking cover, plus a SWAT team would likely be involved.
Active shooter tactics have changed. The first responding officers rush in and stop the bastard as soon as they find him, they don't wait for SWAT, they don't "take cover". They were smart enough to change that tactic, but we are led to believe that either 1) cops are such dumbfucks that they apply their active shooter tactics to MWAG calls when they were trained to use OTHER tactics for MWAG calls or 2) cops' training for MWAG calls is suicidal and utterly devoid of common sense, but they are Pope-level infallible now, so we should never expect them to be retrained for a commonsense, non-suicidal tactic in any future situation - the active shooter tactics were the end of all evolution in LE training.
For the morons, morons everywhere: Parking your car a safe distance away so you can give PA commands and shoot from a supported position with a vastly more accurate gun, is good tactics. Suicidally putting yourself in a situation where you're forced to mag dump with a shit accuracy gun and STILL get shot or stabbed instantly, or "take cover", and/or God forbid get disarmed by the perp and they use everything you brought to the scene for innocent bloodshed, is bad tactics.
The fact is that the kid was acting like a thug and was treated like one. When he showed the gun to the police he did so in a threatening way.
That video is still a blurry piece of shit and damn near worthless as evidence.
