I hope he's found guilty

[marwi_3023]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-01/justine-damond-ruszczyk-mohamed-noor-upgraded-murder-charge/1...

[davidc4430]

the question that i think will never be answered is why he felt the need to act in the way he did that night.

not so much that he shot and killed someone in a darkend alley but he felt it required him to take his weapon out and shoot from inside a car in a way his partner was between him and the person he shot.

the other question is why its taken this long for the authorities to get to charging him with murder.

if it was her who shot the cop sitting in his car she would have been charged within hours of it happening.

[marwi_3023]

One law for them and another for us.
I believe that he was reprimand for an earlier incident and probably didn't have the fortitude for the job.
The other officer is covering for him and must know more about it but we'll never know the truth as he refuses to talk

[kopenhagen5]

I read it has been determined he shot to kill.

If that is the case then throw away the key.

[springyzone]

I think the only thing to be determined is whether or not he had just cause to be fearful enough to shoot-whether there was a threat or danger.

In this case, I don't think there was.

But as for shooting to kill. I think what people have to realise is that if a police officer goes to shoot someone, it will always be with intention to kill. They are trained to aim at body mass. Real life isn't like the movies, cops aren't sharp shooters who can hit a moving bullseye from a mile away. So if a police officer pulls out a gun and says stop, don't argue. Stop. In Australia at least, a gun is usually a last resort.

Unfortunately, I don't think that is as much the case in USA.

[joztamps]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

the question that i think will never be answered is why he felt the need to act in the way he did that night.

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This, to me, has been the strangest thing about the whole case, right from the beginning.

We will, no doubt, hear an explanation at the trial which is, at least, plausible.

And, as Kommandant van Heerden said, the ring of plausibility is much more useful than the ring of truth.