Hello all.
Sorry to post for first time here under this thread.
This video (the cop's action) is absolutely disgusting. And I'm appalled that someone here seems to try and justify this cop's decision. I guess after seeing the video (in all it's straightforwardness), IMO it would be like someone explaining the psychological circumstances to justify why a pedophile does what they do. IDK, maybe its too early in the a.m., and I'm just reading/interpreting some posts the wrong way. If so, my apologies.
Let's say this biker did have a gun on his waist. The biker would have to rotate his body (at the very least his shoulder) in an attempt to engage this cop. This would require some abrupt movement (and time) on the biker's part just to get a shot off in the direction of that officer.
I know some are fast on the draw like John Wayne, but seriously, this cop already had MEGA ADVANTAGE by already having his gun drawn and leveled on the biker.
Further, I fail to see where this biker was/had been trying to outrun the cops, unless maybe at this point he was giving up. What I do see is a couple of bikers behaving in a manner (from the stop sign) that seems to provoke police into pulling them over for maybe something like 'display of acceleration,' or some traffic violation b.s. The cops lights don't appear to go on until after the bikers accelerate from the stop sign.
Okay, I can rant on and on about this tragic incident, but for the sake of this thread I'm going to just say one last thing and be done... If you're a cop, and you are so scared, pumped, and/or razzled out of your mind that you cannot make rational decisions during the execution of your duty, then maybe... just maybe, you should consider another line of work. This cop is a coward.