XponentialChaos
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Here you go.Oh the same caliber of experts who declared Crackhead Hunter's laptop was Russian misinformation and did not exist?
A third officer, who had been out of the way on the passenger side of the car then walks around the Honda’s hood, stands just in front of the driver and appears to be holding his phone up like he’s filming.
“Why would he do that? Why would he put himself in a more dangerous position than he was already in?” asked Geoffrey P. Alpert, an expert on policing at the University of South Carolina, who called it “absurd” for an officer to use his body to try to block a 4,000-pound SUV.
Darrel W. Stephens, former chief of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, also pointed to this moment as the baffling first step in a series of questionable actions that most police departments have discouraged for years. As a police chief, he prohibited officers from standing in front of cars in the early 1990s.
“I can’t explain why he would stand there and place himself in front of the car,” Stephens said. “That’s a dangerous decision to make.”
Administration officials have defended the ICE officer who shot Good as she pulled away in her SUV, saying multiple videos of the incident show that he acted in self-defense. But several former law enforcement officials who reviewed the footage and spoke to The Washington Post faulted the officer’s actions.
They said the officer — identified through court records as Jonathan Ross, an employee of the agency’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division — placed himself at needless risk, escalated the situation and went against best law enforcement practices during the incident. Law enforcement officers should not position themselves in front of vehicles, and they need to try to de-escalate confrontations and must generally avoid shooting into moving vehicles, these officials said.
“It was really an unnecessary shooting,” said Dennis Kenney, a former Florida police officer and a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. “If you’ve got time to shoot, you’ve got time to get out of the way, which we saw in this case. The guy was clearly able to avoid being impacted by the car.”