Kentucky police shooting - officer attacked with a flagpole

[scruff]

Here we go again - perp grabs a flagpole, cop pulls his gun, perp charges the cop and starts hitting him, cop fires two shots, perp dies, witnesses cry that the cop didn't have to kill him.

[jthrelf]

Good shoot. Don't bring a flag pole to a gun fight. Don't assault an officer with a potentially deadly melee weapon.

[priell3]

Looks good to me.

[streaker69]

So the cop gunned down the guy for expressing his 1st amendments rights by waving a flag?

[STBear]

...but he was a good boy.

[PAMedic=F|A=]

I am sure the usual crowd of cops can do no wrong well be around shortly to explain why the officer had no choice.....


But seriously, I think most of us would have shot sooner than he did. In addition from non verbal cues it looks like he did not aggravate the situation.

I would like to see his body cam because it Looked like he stumbled back as he made the shots, although without sound it Is hard to tell. Difficult to shoot & fall & a hard thing to train for.


Also: dead is dead. Clearly he was dead when he was loaded into the ambulance, EMS should have never transported.

[Krichardson]

Also: dead is dead. Clearly he was dead when he was loaded into the ambulance, EMS should have never transported.

So should EMS have covered the body and called the ME/coroner's office?

[JenniferG]

Don't these cops know that black lives matter?

[Statkowski]

Don't these cops know that black lives matter?

All lives matter unless, of course, they don't.

I don't care if you're drunk, or have mental health issues, or can't speak English, if you're attacking me with anything, including a flagpole, my primary concern is to stop the attack.

[Deleted]

I am sure the usual crowd of cops can do no wrong well be around shortly to explain why the officer had no choice.....
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He could have used pepper spray.