Video shows struggle, police shooting in Oak Park, Illinois
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/video-shows-struggle-police-shooting-in-oak-park-illinois/
Curious what people on a social media space other than Facebook take away from the release of the video.
For what it's worth, I have questions on why the stop happened in the first place on changing lanes without a signal since it happens all the time in that stretch of Austin. But, once the stop happened the driver had a cup of alcohol and may also have shown some signs of intoxication while driving before the stop.
I don't have as many questions on why the officer pulled him out of the car and patted him down, as it was then a DUI investigation, the guy lied about having the gun (and the officer may have felt he was lying), and the guy was acting strange in asking to go to the bathroom.
The struggle is pretty serious, and I think it's hard to say the officer here didn't have some reasonable fear when using deadly force after a minute of wrestling with the driver for control of the driver's gun.
I do question why all of the videos stop right after the shooting, and I wonder if that is because they are investigating what the officer/officers did in the immediate aftermath in terms of first aid.
I'm generally not very sympathetic to police shootings, but I don't see how the officer would ever be charged here. I do think there are lessons to learn, though. Like should an officer pull someone out of a car without a second officer on the scene? Would things have gone differently if a second officer had been there? Do we pull people over for things like lane changes without a signal based on race alone, or was the officer just enforcing the law on what he saw as bad driving, intoxication, etc.?
Not sure if Oak Park in the current environment will work on learning those lessons, or if this will become a flashpoint where people simply choose a side and either defend the police or say the shooting was unjustified.