PredFan
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- Oct 13, 2011
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1. Why was there a chopper there?Questions and observations:
1. Why was there a chopper there?
2. Why was there so much back up available?
3. Why was the vehicle stopped in the middle of the road?
4. Was the window down or up?
5. What was said to the victim?
6. Did the victim comply with orders or not?
If it was a routine traffic stop or a disabled vehicle, as many HERE claim, why was there a chopper? Why was ther so many cops already there? In the video, different angles show different things. From one angle, it looks like the window is clearly down. You can see unobstructed inside the vehicle. In another angle, it looks like the window is clearly up. In the video where the guy was already shot, there appears to be blood on the window and door. It's inconclusive at this point. And most importantly, we have no audio of the cops or the victim.
I call him the victim because of the assumption of innocence and that is not a conclusion on my part.
Uncooperative deranged man who parked his car in the middle of a busy street.
2. Why was there so much back up available?
See 1.
3. Why was the vehicle stopped in the middle of the road?
See 1.
4. Was the window down or up?
Reaching for the door handle is the same.
5. What was said to the victim?
We do not know yet. But it sure was not go get back in your car.
6. Did the victim comply with orders or not?
Obviously not.
1. A chopper isn't an easy thing to deploy. They don't do it for nothing. We see videos from news choppers all the time because they frequently fly, but police choppers don't. There had to be a serious reason for that to be there.
2. Most times it takes a while to get back up there. Now one of the many things we don't know is how long this encounter had been going on. The chopper and the back up suggests that it had been going on for a while. That could be important.
3. Agreed, it doesn't seem like a routine stop.
4. I'm not sure a jury would agree with you.
We still can't say anything for sure, but there are interesting questions.