Spear Dane
Grandmaster
I am already tired of seeing this biased agenda bull**** repeated. The gun was NOT being legally carried by a normal person behaving normally. There were multiple 911 calls reporting that this guy went into the Burger King and pointed a gun at the staff, then went outside and pointed it at other people in the parking lot. The "legally carried" factoid was an assumption based on NC's status as an open carry permitless state. These inconvenient facts are, of course, made to disappear by the race-baiters who are trying to make it look like the cops rolled up and shot someone for no reason. They arrived to a dangerous man with a gun call to find a...dangerous, non-compliant man with a gun.
Sucks that this happened to him, but as usual there is a list of things he could have done to avoid being shot that is as long as my leg. Don't wave guns at Burger King and get the cops called on you. Don't ignore the police as though they're gonna go away. Don't deliberately conceal your hands. Don't draw a firearm on the police.
I kinda wonder if, due to him hiding his hand, the police thought the gun was already in his hand and therefore available to be dropped. So when he started messing with it, that appears as a weapon manipulation of some kind, indicating that he's getting ready to fire on them. What could have avoided the whole thing? Standing up straight and raising his hands. Perhaps using his words. Maybe acting in a manner that looks like anything other than a crazy person with a gun who is psyching himself up to shoot some cops.
There's possibly room for improvement in the police response here, but let's not lose sight of who is responsible for this entire situation coming to pass in the first place. I think you will find that if you don't point guns at people in the Burger King and then act shifty with police, your chances of ending the day with bullet wounds go way down.
Did you happen to notice the guy was black? And this is in Charlotte, NC? And maybe, just maybe, he was pissing himself in fear, unsure what to do and generally just afraid of being shot while black, which is exactly what happened. She effed up, hugely. Why do you think the PD did it's level best to suppress the video? Neither one of those cops shut up long enough for him to try and communicate. Why screaming at people is even taught I have no idea, all it does is make already tense situations much worse.