Doesn't look like it. He's running away from the camera when he's shot -- five times no less.
Far as I know that's not a position from which it's even possible to shoot to your rear.
It comes down to a question of: running from a cop is illegal, but is it punishable by getting shot in the back? Because that's exactly what took place.
In fact, just now watching again -- he tries to shoot him seven times. He ran out of bullets.
--- which also means when he's brandishing the gun to keep the pastor and others away, he's doing so with an empty gun.
Would have been interesting to see the pastor ignore him and go ahead and check on the kid as he was pleading to do. Of course it would have also been interesting to see what he would have done in that scenario if the gun was not exhausted.
The shots started while the perp was just standing up from kneeling over/picking something up, and was over less than 2 seconds after that. Yes, five shots fired, don't know how you get that he tried to fire 7 shots.
Your comment that he "ran out of bullets" prove that you know absolutely nothing about firearms, or law enforcement. His firearm carries at least 7, and up to 12 rounds. Secondly, when a semi-auto firearm is out of rounds, the slide locks to the rear, his didn't. Lastly, the officer would have another magazine on his belt and, if he HAD run out of ammo, he would have field-reloaded.
You know absolutely nothing about guns, or law enforcement.
And you know nothing about watching a simple video, because if you did you would see exactly what I described, exactly at the time frames I specified, and know you're dead wrong.
And yes I'm aware he can reload, but that takes the gun down, which he's brandishing in warning. If he lowers to reload, he gives that up. In other words until his backup arrives all he has is illusion. Think about it.
You cowards who want to disregard what's in plain video evidence because you don't have the balls to actually watch it are just fucking pathetic. I came back because someone quoted me. Again it was a complete waste of time.