Racine, Wisconsin – The Racine County District Attorney’s Office released body camera footage of the fatal May 20 police shooting of Da’Shontay King Sr., 37, in conjunction with a decision not to press charges against the officer involved. . . . , Zachary Brenner. Police said they stopped a car while serving a search warrant for a criminal in possession of a firearm. According to police, King ran out of the car with a gun and led a police officer in a foot chase. Officer Brenner chased King over a fence and up a small hill. In the video, King then appears to drop a gun. As King lunged toward her, Officer Brenner opened fire.
Officers provided CPR, police said, but King died in hospital. The .9mm pistol was recovered from King. An analysis at the Wisconsin State Crime Lab revealed that the gun had also been used in a shooting in Edgewood and St. Patrick on April 21st. Chief Robinson says the shooting resulted in property damage. The weapon contained King’s DNA. King family attorney William Sulton said he is requesting the final cause of death in the coroner’s report, which he believes will show the officer used unreasonable force to stop King.
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Running from the police is not a capital offense, so it can't be justifiable to shoot King here, especially as he is a minimal threat to the officer. Even though King was armed, it's not clear that he "lunged". He was still on the run and was unlikely to shoot the officer. The officer could have (A) closed the distance and taken him down before King could've drawn his 9mm, or (B) withdrawn to de-escalate and called for backup, noting where King was headed and creating a chance for a non-lethal takedown. The officer was threatening to shoot before King supposedly lunged too. Just another bad apple huh.
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No. If you have a gun and you go anywhere near it while an armed authority is with you then you have made a huge mistake already. Then compound running from the guy and going back for the dropped gun. All that screams intent to any reasonable well adjusted adult. Running isn’t a capital offense but brandishing a weapon to a armed authority is more than enough reason to engage in lethal force. It takes less than a couple seconds to raise and fire a weapon. You don’t have to take a perfect shooters stance to be lethal.
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Idk last time I checked a fugitive with a gun isn’t a minimal threat in any world I’ve ever been in. If he had not broken the law and run from the cops with a gun he wouldn’t be in that position.
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I think the shooting was justified
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Yes. Let the guy who was irrational enough to run from the cops just go free. Genius
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