Charlotte Police Officer Arrested in Shooting Death

[streck]

Reported dash cam video apparently shows the guy was clearly unarmed and even hiked up his pants to prove the point. I'm thinking it was that and some other details that made for a bad shoot.

Do you have a link to this?

[Irish]

The victim was running; not simply approaching the officer faster than he liked.

That's an assumption based on a news article. I think we should use the same criteria for media reports and statements that we do when they reflect negatively on an officer's actions. Until video & audio are examined and the official report comes out we really don't have any facts.

[NCPatrolAR]

That's an assumption

If you say so

[streck]

Until video & audio are examined and the official report comes out we really don't have any facts.

I prefer video and audio to official reports.

[Irish]

If you say so

This article claims that the police statement was he advanced on the officer. I'm not sure how they're defining advanced but I would assume it's different than run otherwise they would've just stated he ran at them.

"The evidence revealed that Mr. Ferrell did advance on Officer Kerrick and the investigation showed that the subsequent shooting of Mr. Ferrell was excessive," police said in another statement issued late Saturday night. "Our investigation has shown that Officer Kerrick did not have a lawful right to discharge his weapon during this encounter. "

I'm not saying the officer's actions were malicious or that he was trying to kill some innocent dude or anything like that. More than likely he was scared seeing a big black dude, who's a football player, coming at him on a dark night on a B&E call. But, if the article was like many others we've discussed here people would be jumping on the "anti-LE media" and "were you there?" type of arguments rather than taking the article at face value.

[NCPatrolAR]

I prefer video and audio to official reports.

The video nor the 911 tapes have been released to the public yet AFAIK

[Irish]

I prefer video and audio to official reports.

Yo también.

[Eurodriver]

That's an assumption based on a news article. I think we should use the same criteria for media reports and statements that we do when they reflect negatively on an officer's actions. Until video & audio are examined and the official report comes out we really don't have any facts.

I believe NCPatrolAR may have some insight that we do not.

[Alaskapopo]

From the article;



GUARANTEED that WON'T bring any clarity to the issue, and once 'DA REV'ERHUNDS begin marching, the issue will go downhill quickly.

Bad situation? Absolutely. To go from a car wreck, to looking for help, to getting shot to death over it, is unfathomable, and sad beyond words. Unfortunately, race hustlers are NEVER short on "words," but ALWAYS short on clarity...

Lots of information is missing. I saw this one on police one. I imagine the car wreck was not a simple accident but rather a DUI. Someone looking for help does not charge a police officer. This makes me believe drugs were probably involved. The fact the taser failed shows the LEO felt he may have been out of options. He tried less lethal force first. I would like to have known the size, age, differences between the officers and the suspect. Again its easy to make assumptions but on its face it sounds like the department is hanging the officer out to dry because of the number of rounds fired and the race politics. As for the number of rounds fired we know that is not unusual as well all know because hand guns suck at stopping power and a good shooter can fire about 4 to 5 rounds a second at close range. I have a wait and see attitude right now. I want to know more information.
Pat

[TAZ]

The situation sux for all involved. However, the speed with which "justice" seems to be moving makes one go HMMMMMM.