POLICE BRUTALITY CASES: WALTER SCOTT MURDER & MORE

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I thought the officer was quoted on the FB version as yelling, "I told him not to move, I told him not to move!"

The Star Tribune posted an article this morning talking about MN law and what the procedures are if an officer knows someone has a concealed weapon.

Someone can post it if they'd like, but, the gist of the message was: if you tell an officer you're carrying, you are now obliged to follow every single command that officer gives you.

Let's say Phil told him he was carrying (which I do believe happened).

The officer most likely told him not to move, but Phil, trying to be transparent, most likely reached for his permit, at which point the officer unloaded his weapon into him.

If the officer would have been rational and calm, he would've have understood that someone declaring to you he had a weapon is most likely not looking to shoot you, or he wouldn't have declared it.

This is my take: the cop was edgy, jumpy and frightened.

He reacted way too quickly and now I hope he spends many, many years in prison.

Which is the same thing almost ANY cop would do. The man just told you he has a weapon and is reaching behind his back. Bro... If a total stranger did that to you, you'd shit your pants thinking you're about to get shot. Keep in mind that every day a cop leaves the house to go to work he knows he might not ever come home again.