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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting follow-up from the L.A. Times.  Unlike with most shootings where reader opinions are pretty evenly split, the readers overwhelmingly do not believe the cop’s story.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-costco-shooting-reader-reactions-20190622-story.html[/quote]

It's Los Angeles.   If you lived there you would understand the anti-cop culture there.  [/quote]

I'm the OP of this thread, and I actually find the insinuation that everyone who is against the cop must be "anti-cop" to be offensive. I live in a neighboring county, so maybe you weren't talking about me because I'm not technically LA, but I have something of a connection to the police and I'm most certainly not anti-cop. However, I'm human and I can see trends and patterns and it has not escaped me that whenever there is a police shooting, the instinct is to protect the cop even if all evidence and witnesses point to the fact that the cop just murdered someone. Anyone else would be in jail, and the cops are at most put on "administrative leave" (a vacation paid for by us) for as long as possible while they make sure that there's absolutely no possible chance of the cop not being found guilty of something pretty bad before they make an arrest. That's unacceptable.

FWIW, the shooting also occurred in a neighboring county and not in LA, with a small piece of another county separating them. So saying the shooting occurred in LA is a bit like implying that Loudon is the same as DC.

Anyway, it scares the hell out of me to think that this man might come down for the day to enjoy OC and shoot one of my kids because they accidentally knocked him.

Good cops everywhere should be appalled by this officer and the treatment of the case so far. And, if they were smart cops, they would be clearly distinguishing themselves and their departments from him, and that starts with treating him like the dangerous criminal he is. Protecting this murderer does more to harm police public relations than anything else I can think of, and a lot of the police departments here spend a fair bit of time, money and effort into building community relations.

My personal impression thus far, baring evidence surfacing to the contrary, is that an intellectually disabled man got excited about getting a sample and pushed forward in anticipation. I read a few reports that the officer was "feeding his child samples" in the line, which I don't think is great etiquette or respecting the people behind you in the line, so maybe the victim was frustrated and excited, or maybe it was even a genuine mistake if he saw the man getting samples and assumed he would then be moving out of the way so others could get theirs, as most people would do. Who knows. But in any case, it's very clear to me and everyone I know that the man didn't deserve to be shot and neither did his parents.[/quote]

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