Shields was allowed to resign for optics.
I'm not arguing with you guys when the facts have already been laid out. He was fired for unlawfully using deadly force. No matter what happened prior to him killing an unarmed man, the moment that he shot Rayshard he broke the law. You cannot shoot a fleeing man in the back. That is a crime.
So even if we want to penalize both sides from a legal standpoint, let's say Rayshard was guilty of DUI. Depending on his record, it may have been pleaded down to a moving violation. Not even a crime, but a violation.
The cop, is guilty of shooting a man in his back 3 times. Both of those two things can be true.
The thing is only one of the two took an Oath. And only one of the two came armed with a deadly weapon and used it in the most cowardly way possible, by shooting a man in the back.
Outside of a warrant or an arrest, someone cooperating with a police officer is entirely optional. He was never placed under arrest and had no warrants, nor was he ever informed that he was being detained or being placed under arrest for the crime of driving while intoxicated.
Put your hands behind your back are the kind of vague commands that police officers learn in the academy to get around respecting people's rights. You have to announce the arrest and read a person their Miranda rights if you are placing them under arrest. This dirty fukk would have had him willingly get handcuffed, driven him to the precinct and then got his blood work ran. Thus skipping the need for the probable cause for a warrant.
All of you guys keep bringing up the vague and rarely used parked DUI law. Anyone here actually ever been arrested for DUI while sitting in a parked car?
Because we have people using laws that they never knew existed before today as a justification for a police officer shooting an unarmed man in the back 3 times while he attempted to flee to safety.
"You wanted to see me sir?"
: "Bob, mind fukking telling me and the Chief (
) why you called a Uber for a Drunk and hes now suing the city?"
