A St. Louis sheriff’s deputy was placed on probation Friday for killing a carjacking suspect while off duty in 2020, but Sheriff Vernon Betts sat behind him in court and said he doesn’t think his deputy did anything wrong. …
A St. Louis sheriff’s deputy was placed on probation Friday for killing a carjacking suspect while off duty in 2020, but Sheriff Vernon Betts sat behind him in court and said he doesn’t think his deputy did anything wrong. …
Cops do a lot of terrible stuff all the time and too often get away with it, but after reading this article, I really don’t see what he did wrong shooting the guy if it looked like he was going to get away. The guy just stabbed someone in the chest with a screwdriver to steal the person’s truck that also had the person’s grandson in it. He crook then took the truck, flipped it around and ran over the guy he just stabbed. It seems pretty likely that if he was able to escape from the one officer he would be even more likely to try and kill and steal another vehicle in order to escape.
The carjacking, the screwdriver, the dangerous driving, etc, are “after-the-fact facts,” woven into the narrative to make the cop’s actions seem more reasonable.
According to the article, Officer Buchanan was off-duty, driving his own vehicle, so he would’ve known none of the above.
That’s all he knew, as this cop shot and killed a man, over a hit-and-run wreck with no known injuries. The sheriff thinks that’s heroic. Sounds like you think so, too.
In my opinion, crashing a pickup truck on someone’s lawn and then running off is rotten and irresponsible, but it doesn’t merit being shot and killed.
If that’s the case then why would you have chosen this article over any other to post in an anti police insurance?
Oh the cop saw all that? He knew those details when he acted?
It’s an assumption based on that RP chose this specific article to post to an anti cop instance. The article makes it seem like this all happened in an extremely small area and the cop viewed the entire thing happen. If that wasn’t what happened I would have assumed RP would have picked an article that didn’t make it appear like the cop saw it all.