California Cop Who Shot 18-Year-Old Had His Bodycam Off, But Surveillance Footage Captured Him Shooting Suspect in the Back as He Fled

Officer Joshua Coleman chased and shot an 18 year old in the back while they ran. Then had the audacity to tell him "I’m going to save your life.". This is the fifth (as if this article) shooting that this lunatic has been involved in. He was previously found to have bent tip(s) on his badge, which is something cops do to mark their fatal shootings. ACAB.

Disgusting. I hope he gets life.

You're telling me the police statement lied??? I am SHOCKED. yeah right.

Police statement are always false, always. Never believe them. That's why I didn't buy it a few days ago when everyone on Lemmy was saying the kid deserved it

this is just murder

The sheriff’s office did not release body camera video of the shooting as the sheriff’s office said Officer Joshua Coleman’s body camera batteries died before the pursuit and he hadn’t been able to return to the charging station.

How the fuck do they not have 12 charged backup batteries and 2 chargers in every car?!?!? I mean, I know how, but what the actual fuck.

I don't know man, I'm all for police oversight, but this isn't a great example. This dude is running around a neighbourhood with a gun. Who says he doesn't go into one of those houses and some innocent person gets hurt.

The cop yelled at him to drop the gun and stop running, he didn't.

The part of them trying to cover it up after is shitty, but the action itself I can't really take the criminal's side. Again, image that's my neighbour with my kids playing in the area, I don't want some lunatic running around with a gun.

I realise what sub I'm in, and this isn't a popular opinion and that's fine. We need police reform, but this isn't a good example.

When people jump on everything with the same fervor it weakens your case because people start tuning you out.

I was at least happy to see the kid survived.

This officer deserves to be imprisoned.

ACAB

How come all the pro-gun fuckstains that claim "guns keep police honest" are never in these threads saying "the kid should have opened fire on the cop" or "people in nearby houses should have threatened the cop with a gun"?

But nope, they just stick to threads about gun control and peddle the same rhetoric that crystal gripping hippies have used for decades. "My cancer-preventing crystals didn't prevent your cancer? Damn, imagine how much cancer you would have had without the crystals. You basically owe me your life. You better buy more."

ACAB

i read the article, saw the video and asked mysel

don't they have any law enforcement there ???

Oh man, this cop is in for a real threat. What is he going to do on his paid administrative leave?!?!?!

And I'm guessing the paperwork filled at the time was lying about this detail

As an outsider it seems like America is a country full of people running around with guns and shooting each other. How does anyone there manage to relax?

a taser would have sufficed in this situation.

He looks like he graduated from Coleco Police Academy.

Lock him up.

Fleeing from police while holding a firearm is not a normal everyday situation that a citizen or an officer finds themselves in, nor should it be treated as one. Unfortunately, a consequence of being human is that elevated stress levels can lead to less than ideal outcomes in the heat of the moment. The law regarding situations like this accounts for this reality and would easily favor the officer.

A suspect fleeing while holding a firearm makes the officer's fear for his own safety reasonable. It may have been best if he had noticed the firearm that was dropped, but I don't know enough to say whether he knew about the suspect's second firearm and was instructing him to drop both. I find it unlikely, and believe that I would have acted in a similar fashion had I seen a suspect that I'd just seen with a gun digging around in his waistband (for another).

At first glance, the officer appears to have acted with vigilance and to the best of his ability in a dangerous and high-intensity predicament, but his history makes that questionable. Ultimately, this outcome was the fault of the suspect for running away from a police officer while carrying a gun in the first place. Safe, sane people don't do that, and it immediately creates a dangerous and hairy situation for everyone involved. It's a line beyond which there are inherently less guarantees for the suspect, as the officer's legally permitted option to open fire relies entirely on the reasonable perception of imminent danger.

Slightly clickbait: Bodycam battery died

Better link with another piece of footage

"Just as Coleman fired twice, another gun appeared to fly from Rogers’ hand into a front yard." Surely the cop had no reason to shoot...

It's funny how when cops do something good, nobody knows or gives a shit, but when a cop shoots someone, everyone starts going crazy and comment "ACAB" everywhere.