You keep bringing up that this is what they are trained to do.
Link to back that up?
Yeah, cause their training manuals / courses are online and a simple google click away.
Have you never read the news before? Do you not see it day in and day out, stories of people being shot for moving the wrong way during a police encounter? P&N alone has detailed countless examples throughout the years.
12 year old in a park reaching for his toy gun. Dead.
Man in Walmart is holding an air rifle and simply flinches a muscle. Dead. Man is stopped and makes a sudden movement for his wallet. Shot.
Reach for your ID, killed.
Dive down the wrong street in DC, crash into a WH gate. Chased down and killed.
The actions you see on that video is the EXACT situation in which officers open fire. Because they are trained with the expectation that Americans are armed.
There is nothing new, novel, or unexpected in that video. Have you never heard the phrase "show me your hands"? Do you know what that means? Do you know WHY they shout that at people? Americans are not armed with lollipops. Grow up and learn something about how the world is. Why it is. This man was not shot out of the blue, or for no reason. He threatened the officers by the actions on that video. ANY soldier or officer would shoot in that situation.
I am here telling you how it has always been. That is my reaction to something I find utterly astonishing, and that is seeing the reactions from people here who think the officers had no reason. On that video I see plenty of reason. More than other situations, because the suspect had time to respond properly. Lot of folks are not given that opportunity.
Next I expect outrage over the sun setting in the west, and I'll tell you it always has. Then you'll be horrified that I dared tell you the truth. Meanwhile I am still sitting here wondering where the hell have you been all your life? Because if this shocks you, if you think they had no reason, you have not been paying attention.
Having said that. THIS IS ASIDE from whether it is a good thing. Or whether police policy can be changed to prevent avoidable situations that cost us lives.
I am sadden when people die needlessly. I advocate for policy changes to address these issues and avoid these deaths. But I will not sit quietly and pretend that this was not the expected and legally practiced outcome of the video I just watched. Officers respond to threats. Reaching and operating a vehicle are threats. It is a very bad idea to ignore officers and threaten them.