BLM Protestors Mock Shooting Victim

[Belsnickel]

(07-19-2022, 02:49 PM)pally Wrote: My 2nd statement was as serious as a heart attack.  What changed to cause the sniper to shoot. If the suspect made a dangerous movement then surely the sniper's body cam bore that out. The longer the Minneapolis police take to answer that question the more the public will distrust the answer. The delay looks like they are looking to concoct a reasonable believable response. The public will fill in the silence with their own answers and THAT will become the truth of the situation.  It is not like the Minneapolis police department is coming from decades of upstanding service to the public.  They have no benefit of the doubt.  Apparently, though they haven't learned anything from their past handling of police shootings.

The protesters were not defending the actions of the suspect...they were protesting the manner of his death.  There is a difference.  

To the bold: most likely not. Now, I don't know the layout of the scene or anything, but snipers/sharpshooters are almost always taking a shot from the prone position or one in which their weapon is supported on a solid rest. These positions would leave any field of view from a body worn camera obstructed. Not to mention that the distance to target for such a shot would be longer than these cameras are designed to capture. Body worn cameras are designed to really only capture quality images from like 10-15 feet away. After that the image quality, which already wasn't great, diminishes greatly. The distances a sniper would shoot from, usually measured in yards/meters rather than feet, would not be captured well on such a camera, especially a movement that could be slight.