Murder charge dropped against cop who shot Taser-wielding black man in back as he fled arrest

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@Fefelo

I was the one who said in this thread, “Taser is certainly non-lethal.”

And now you say ‘less lethal’. Well, it’s a start.

@Fefelo

I hope some city or state tries it, just hopefully not my city or state.

Either you think it is worth trying or you don’t. Given the statement above, I suspect you don’t, really.

@Fefelo

did the suspect having the cops’ Taser create a lethal threat to the police? Perhaps. A head shot with a Taser could be quite a serious injury. If a probe hits an eye, that eye would be gone, that’s for sure. Probes across the heart have a small chance of being lethal, but the cops (I assume) were wearing vests, so that’s impossible.

Did you read the thread? Did you read the comment by @knoxblox with the link to the key detail stated right there in the one-box? (My bold below.)

A key detail: Fulton County DA Paul Howard says former officer Garrett Rolfe knew that the taser Rayshard Brooks was holding had been fired twice and didn’t pose any danger to the officers when Brooks turned and tried to fire it at officers before Rolfe shot Brooks in the back.

So all of those possibilities you list were not only impossible, they were known to be impossible.

@Fefelo

The thing they were likely really afraid of is being incapacitated and at the mercy of this criminal. But is that an imminent danger, or a hypothetical danger? I have no answer.

I do have an answer: there was no danger at all, either imminent or hypothetical!

@Fefelo

A whole lot of weapons have some chance of being lethal.

@Fefelo

But that’s not the issue here.

That’s right, it’s not.