Yeah, I can see that. But I put myself in that moment, and I have to wonder if he had the time to think and make a judgement about what was occurring, or if he was so focused on maintaining distance between the crowd and the other cops that it was more of a momentum thing where the habits of crowd control kicked in.
The problem now is that he wasn’t really the focus of the videos (or wasn’t in the ones I’ve seen). I haven’t seen or heard any witness testimony that conflicts with him having more fucked up than intentionally contributing to murder. That’s negligent as hell, but I can see it happening easily even to highly principled people.
The fact that he’s not that principled, that he’s been so unapologetic about his part makes it much harder to give the benefit of the doubt though. Like, if he can’t muster up genuine regret that a man died on his watch, then it’s harder to not react emotionally to his part in things
I haven’t watched the full video since it was originally available. It did fuck with my head. I’ve seen way too much death in my life to watch it any more.
Yeah, I can see that. But I put myself in that moment, and I have to wonder if he had the time to think and make a judgement about what was occurring, or if he was so focused on maintaining distance between the crowd and the other cops that it was more of a momentum thing where the habits of crowd control kicked in.
The problem now is that he wasn’t really the focus of the videos (or wasn’t in the ones I’ve seen). I haven’t seen or heard any witness testimony that conflicts with him having more fucked up than intentionally contributing to murder. That’s negligent as hell, but I can see it happening easily even to highly principled people.
The fact that he’s not that principled, that he’s been so unapologetic about his part makes it much harder to give the benefit of the doubt though. Like, if he can’t muster up genuine regret that a man died on his watch, then it’s harder to not react emotionally to his part in things
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I haven’t watched the full video since it was originally available. It did fuck with my head. I’ve seen way too much death in my life to watch it any more.