This is a b.s. shoot.
Guy did not "fling door open". He stepped outside quickly with gun in hand. GF said someone knocking and running after dark happened days ago, guy was likely annoyed, trying to catch whoever was knocking and running. That's what his body language tells me, with the additional info provided by GF.
Upon seeing officers he appeared to try to put the gun out of view and immediately starts to his knees. This is an obvious act of compliance. Again body language says he recognizes that officers are at his door and is trying to mitigate any appearances of a threat to officers. Officer shoots anyway, I to his back/side.
This is HIS home. He is within his rights to protect it. In my view the onus is on an officer, not the relatively untrained citizen, to show the most restraint. The citizen did, the officer didn't.
Officers seemed annoyed/in a hurry on the call. Is this how they were trained to handle domestic calls? Walk up, rap door while quickly yelling "Phoenix police". Seems very sloppy and haphazard.
Not a good shoot. Officer needs to find a different line of work if he isn't able to make these sorts of split second decisions.
Guy did not "fling door open". He stepped outside quickly with gun in hand. GF said someone knocking and running after dark happened days ago, guy was likely annoyed, trying to catch whoever was knocking and running. That's what his body language tells me, with the additional info provided by GF.
Upon seeing officers he appeared to try to put the gun out of view and immediately starts to his knees. This is an obvious act of compliance. Again body language says he recognizes that officers are at his door and is trying to mitigate any appearances of a threat to officers. Officer shoots anyway, I to his back/side.
This is HIS home. He is within his rights to protect it. In my view the onus is on an officer, not the relatively untrained citizen, to show the most restraint. The citizen did, the officer didn't.
Officers seemed annoyed/in a hurry on the call. Is this how they were trained to handle domestic calls? Walk up, rap door while quickly yelling "Phoenix police". Seems very sloppy and haphazard.
Not a good shoot. Officer needs to find a different line of work if he isn't able to make these sorts of split second decisions.