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Ohio deputy killed by father of 18-year-old fatally shot by police a day earlier
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
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after watching hundreds of videos where it happens exactly like that, and after watching video of this exact incident. no.
it’s quite clear the kid didn’t fire first. no gun visible in the bodycam video at all….
they shot him in the back while he was running away.
you’re a lot more confident than me, responding to every single comment on here like spam….
we don’t need your opinion over and over and over again.
Where's the video of this incident? I didn't know it had been released.
the article that YOU LINKED… right here ^
this article… provides a link to the video, and talks about the video.
you could watch it yourself, but instead you’re arguing against screenshots… “i have no idea what the previous frame of the video shows!?!”.
at least read the article you posted yourself.
clearly you came in here to defend to cops.
the article that YOU LINKED… right here ^
this article… provides a link to the video, and talks about the video.
you could watch it yourself, but instead you’re arguing against screenshots…
clearly you came in here to defend to cops.
What, the video that doesn't show the relevant part of the shooting or the segment that includes the screengrab?
I thought maybe I was the weird one, so I went back and watched the whole thing just to make sure. No, it's basically B-roll and the chief talking and the least relevant part of the incident. That's it. The video tells you nothing at all about what happened.
you are spamming at this point and i’m no longer reading your responses… and blocking you
Okey dokey then.
It's in the link they posted. Here's the screen grab of where they shot him in the back.
That's not a video, that's a screen grab. It looks like the video itself on the site only shows from the second officer's camera, and fades out when the shooting starts. xor said they'd watched the video of the actual incident... but maybe they meant this video which doesn't really show a damn thing. Am I missing something?
I mean maybe they are not releasing the first person video because it clearly shows the kid's hands were empty or something, and the officer lied when he said the kid brandished his gun at him. I have no idea. This screen grab could be right after showing his hands empty, or this could be a frame from 0.2 seconds after the kid pointed his gun at the cop just like the cop said, or something in between.
you need to shut the fuck up at this point, officer.
Okay, so it sounds like you haven't actually seen a video of the incident. You've seen a video of the dumpster and heard shots being fired as the screen turns grey. Good to know.
once the cops start murdering him, they cut the video.
do you think that’s when he pulls his gun out and starts shooting?
you don’t know shit
Nobody said he shot at the cops. The cops said he "brandished" his gun at the cops, which can mean a couple different things. I think if he's running from the cops holding a gun, and there's anything that could be in any wild scenario interpreted as intent to shoot the cops, then they can shoot him. That's my feeling, others might disagree. But nobody as far as I can tell is saying he ever shot at the cops and I don't feel they're required to give him the first shot in this scenario. There is no reason at all to put a gun in your hand while running from the police other than that you plan on shooting them with it if it comes to it, and the cop's job is to catch the guy, which means it'll come to it.
I also wanted to watch the video to see if it was plausible that the cop planted the gun like you said. I doubt it. My guess is that, after the chaos of the shooting itself which might not show clearly what happened, there will be a clear uninterrupted shot from the killing to where the gun is clearly on the ground next to him or something. But maybe not, certainly cops have planted evidence or released selective bodycam footage before.
I have no idea why you're so hostile to the idea of just finding out what happened. If the cops continue to not release the bodycam of the actual shooting, but just that single frame with a big black rectangle that someone could implausibly claim was the teenager pointing a gun at the cops (but is more likely a thermos or a compression artifact), then sure, that's pretty strong circumstantial evidence that something fucked up happened.
Not saying he did or didn't but this is a pretty cliche police statement up there with "Sprinkle some crack on him" classic
But thus whole thing is already being set up as rage bait it seems. Just enough doubt to get people going