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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Full disclosure: I’ve only read one article and watched the video.

Questions:

-Did she and the other officers know they were arresting someone with an outstanding bench warrant?

-Did she know what the warrant was for?

-Doesn’t the fact that he was not only resisting arrest but actively fleeing warrant use of force such as a taser?

-Assuming that drawing the gun instead of the taser was a terrible mistake rather than her intended choice of weapon, why is this incident being labeled as fueled by racism? What would a black officer have done in that situation where someone resists and attempts to flee an arrest for an outstanding warrant (not a warrant for unpaid tickets, but for something serious as was the case here)? Taser him, correct?[/quote]

Automatic license plate readers are extremely common on Police cruisers across the USA.

They scan EVERY license plate the cruiser passes (yes - your car too.  Every time).

Registrations linked to outstanding criminal warrants appear automatically on the laptop present in every cruiser (yes, they have those too.  Have for years). [/quote]

Aren’t you smart? Clearly there either wasn’t a plate reader in the squad car in this situation, or the car was his mother’s. They didn’t learn he had an outstanding warrant until they took his ID back to the squad car and ran it there.[/quote]

Regardless, the 3 police officers in the video were placing him under arrest due to an outstanding warrant for a rather serious reason. And, he resisted and was actively fleeing.

This doesn’t seem racially motivated at all. [/quote]

Rather serious? He failed to appear in court on a permit ... <$500 fine and the court never notified him so his warrant wasn’t his fault.[/quote]

The warrant causes a lot of confusion because there was a fulfilled warrant for a case that was working through the court system, that he had to be aware of, and an open warrant for failing to appear about another alleged incident June 30th. The notice of hearing for that was posted March 4th and there are no returned mail documentations under that case number.

The fulfilled warrant was for an alleged felony offense and he was given a conditional release after posting bond. He would also be obligated to provide a current address to the court for the ongoing case, but there’s a documentation that mail was returned under that case number.

A hearing for the alleged June incident was scheduled for 4/02, which he did not attend. It isn’t clear why he didn’t attend or what channels he would have been notified through.

Since he didn’t appear, the judge issued a warrant for a gross misdemeanor and that’s what the officers on Sunday were attempting to take him into custody for. I agree there are cases where people don’t know they have warrants or don’t understand what that means. However, if officers have a signed warrant you can (and probably will, under these circumstances) be detained and arrested regardless.

These are allegations and sometimes people are falsely accused.

Not relevant to him being  fatally shot instead of tasered, since there’s never going to be any good reason for that to have happened. It’s pointless to even try to justify that.

But it is relevant to a limited extent of whether the officers were justified to attempt to detain him, and why the incident escalated so quickly when he attempted to re-enter the vehicle.

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