MT - Officer cleared in fatal shooting. (Video of incident)

[M4arc]

Why did they even question the shoot in the first place?

[11B101ABN]

I dont think it was questioned as much as it was treated as a homicide and delt w/ as such. This is not an uncommon practice.

Usually, the agency will clear the officer well in advance of any grand jury hearing. Here, I have yet to hear of a OIS that goes to grand jury after the investigating agency clears the officer.

In most cases, the agency will hand the investigation off to the state, (GBI) to demonstrate impartiality.

[CarlosDJackal]

From the video, it looked like a good shoot to me!!

This is why I always held my flashlight with my left hand. Notice how he had to drop it when the "aw shit" moment occured.

Glad things turned out okay.

[CarlosDJackal]

Why did they even question the shoot in the first place?

This is pretty much normal SOP. Wait until the Civil case gets going.

[Eddiesketti]

Glad the officer came out okay. Scary situation for anyone. Drinking and guns = bad.

[Abraxas]

Drinking and guns = bad.

NO! Again, it is not drinking and anything, it is dumb ass and anything. This case it is dumb ass and driving and guns. But not to worry he wont do that any more.

[tampam4]

No need to get another thread locked. Extremely level headed cop. Although luck was on his side that the first trigger pull was a click, everything afterwards was performed very well by the officer. Glad it turned out the way it did!

[Honu]

just glad that first click was empty chamber or already shot round ?