Lincoln Co. probably hasn’t seen a non-white person in a few years… over 90% white population.
I didn’t engage in much mind reading there. Since there’s no question that Rolfe shot Brooks, why he shot him is a natural question to ask.
I Just looked at the video and concluded there’s no way he had a good reason to think he was in great danger from a guy running away with an empty weapon. If I was mind reading I’d say Rolfe shot him because he’s a racist. I haven’t seen or heard anything to make me think that’s true so I wouldn’t say that and I don’t think it is true.
Wtf is a non white person? What’s a white person?
And in all the westerns I’ve seen, it was white dudes who wore masks when breaking the law. I never thought that criminals wearing masks was associated with a particular race. I guess Lincoln Co. is really trying to win the woke Olympics.
How did he know it was empty?
Because Rolfe watched Brooks fire it twice. It’s in the video.
And in the heat of the moment, he should be expected to remember that? This isn’t the movies where people count how many shots someone has fired. Didn’t the criminal scum also punch the cop? That could have affected what he remembered.
Yeah I do expect a well trained cop to remember important details like that. If you’re talking about remembering 5+ shots happening in rapid succession, then I’d agree with you. But if Atlanta is hiring cops who can’t count to 2 there’s a big problem there.
I’ll add to this that the stop had already lasted a significant amount of time and they knew Brooks wasn’t armed. The other cop also said during the fight “he’s got my fucking taser.” So, Rolfe knew he didn’t have a gun.
It’s notable that as I mentioned above there’s a video of Rolfe speaking to another cop after he killed Brooks saying that Brooks had a taser and shot it at him. Then, when Rolfe’s statement comes out through his attorney he says Brooks had an object in his hand, saw a flash and a sound like a gunshot. It seems like he already knows he’s f’d because he shot a guy with an empty taser so he’s backtracking and saying he didn’t know what it was.
Good luck with that.
A taser is considered a less lethal, not non lethal, weapon in Georgia.
What he stated to the cop were the facts as he knew them after the event. The second description is what he knew as it was unfolding.
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An empty taser that can’t be fired again is less lethal? I wouldn’t use the word lethal to define an empty taser but that’s just me, for now. Again, counting up to 2 is pretty easy, especially when he was within 20 feet of Brooks during both shots and looking straight at him and the big yellow taser in his hand.
Rolfe will get his day in court so he’s got a chance to be found not guilty. If it was a justified shoot he’ll be fine.
When he fired it, it was. Again, you can apply a standard that would be very hard for someone in that situation to meet but that doesn’t mean it should be applied or will be applied.
Because in your experience in situations like that you’ve managed to think about all of the details before using deadly force? If you did do that, you’d already be dead hero.
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I wouldn’t count on Atlanta cops to be capable of counting to two.
The DA is applying that standard in this case which is the important part.
He doesn’t write the laws, which deal with this very subject, and he isn’t a judge or jury, this is the important part. What if the GBI, after conducting their investigation, concludes that it was not a bad shooting? This is a corrupt DA who is being investigated trying to politicize an event in order to win re-election and divert attention from his own crimes.
He also said that a taser is a deadly weapon.
That’s two more than most of the people they have to deal with.
Did anybody directly involved in this case write the laws in question? Is it unimportant that the DA is pursuing he case the way he is? I’m just trying to understand your point as you seem to think my statement wasn’t correct.
Do you have any evidence that the DA is corrupt? If so, post it please. I’d be interested in reading it.
The presence of an investigation doesn’t prove corruption. But he is definitely being investigated for corruption.
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Thanks Silyak. Interesting read. Well maybe there’ll be a new DA before this case is over who sees it differently. To be clear, I’ve stated my own opinion pretty clearly and I don’t care what the DA thinks. But it is important how he decides to pursue the case whether one agrees with it or not.
He is being investigated.
The courts have recognized that under stress, the standards change. So it becomes a question of, was it reasonable for the cop to shoot the stupid criminal under the totality of the conditions, such as having been punched in the head.
It’s unethical as the GBI did not complete its investigation. He is trying the cops in the court of public opinion.
In this New Age of Woke, it is hard to weed through the media and try to decide on what is most stupid thing you have read about today. Amazing , what a cornucopia of delights surround this buffet of stupid delights.
However, burning down a house because LEO’s are investigating two missing teenage girls, possibility related to human trafficking, really stretches the imagination. Who knew that investigating a possible human trafficking was so fucking racist?
MILWAUKEE — Three people were shot, a house was set on fire and seven police officers and a firefighter were injured as a large unruly crowd gathered at the scene of an investigation into two missing teenage girls in Milwaukee.
wtf?
Police officers respond to a fire and unruly crowd at the scene of a sex trafficking investigation. The three people shot weren’t shot by police, authorities said. Police Chief Alfonso Morales denounced the unrest as vigilantism and said some people were reacting to information that had not been proven.
No one ever need accurate information to act like an idiot, Chief
“We investigate the information that is given to us. We can’t allow an unruly crowd to determine what that investigation is,” Morales said.
Well, not sure you can back that statement up, since the house was burned down, however, you could not do anything to prevent the destruction, because, this morning you would have been labeled a racist and your mayor would have sacrificed you to public.
Police had been to the home earlier Tuesday, as a crowd began to grow. By mid-afternoon, the crowd surged toward the house, as some in the group wanted to look for evidence that supported the rumors of sex trafficking, the Journal Sentinel reported.
Well, lets see here: Joe , Bobby, and Larry all work at various jobs, none in the field of criminal investiagtions, suddenly decide they are more capable of working a crime scene than an investigator. By, God, they have watched enough NCIS or Law and Order to be qualified as forensic experts . They know what’s best here.
Some broke into the house, while others smashed windows and by evening the house was set on fire and the unrest escalated.
Damn, what a brilliant way to preserve evidence and preserve the crime scene. I have to admit, I have never thought of this method before.
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That’s un-fucking-real.
The orcs are marauding with abandon.
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“I regret calling the police. It was my instinct but I wish it hadn’t been. I put those boys in danger of death by calling the cops.”