Makes you wonder why he was relocated? Regardless, the woman did not deserve to be shot, unless she presented and became a viable threat to the officer. On what grounds does he have the authority to approach the vehicle and demand I.D. if she was sitting in the parking lot in her car?
We aren't getting the whole story, by a long shot. Definitely something missing here.
Did Daniel Harless decide to up and move out west?
This...I've seen quite a few people that have been dragged (and some who were run over) and the officer should have marks to match being caught in the window and drug along with the vehicle.
So the camera was conveniently not operating.The Culpeper town spokesperson says the officer's cruiser did have a video camera, but that it was not working. He also said the officer did not turn on his blue lights. If he had, it would've been a sign that he was detaining the person, says attorney and former Fairfax County Police officer Ted Sibert . If the person is not being detained, she should be free to go, Sibert says.
"What is he investigating? if its just for we call a suspicious person, then he doesn't have jusification to use force to maintain the contact. So if the person wants to roll the window up, they can. He can't be sticking his hand in the window or pulling someone out of the the car or open the door. Those all need justification," Sibert says.
Sibert says that before an officer tries to stop or detain someone, he needs reasonable suspicion that a crime has occurred or is about to occur. Trespassing is not sufficient, especially if the person is trying to get off the property. Furthermore, to charge someone with trespassing, you'd need proof the person knew she was trespassing. Was it clearly marked? Did the property owner tell the person to leave?
Sibert says if the officer did put his arm in the window, he needs to have reasonable suspicion a crime was committed or about to be committed. Virginia State Police have said nothing about why the officer was detaining Cook in the first place,or, in other words, why he was putting his hand in her window, if in fact that's what he did.
There's a whole lot of WTF here in this LEO shooting.
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So the camera was conveniently not operating.
And the officer did not use his lights to stop the person, and that if there was no stop, then her actions of attempting to leave were lawful. I wonder if she even noticed he was a LEO or just became afraid when someone suddenly appeared at her window and felt unsafe and attempted to get to safety.
This...I've seen quite a few people that have been dragged (and some who were run over) and the officer should have marks to match being caught in the window and drug along with the vehicle.
Most of the time when you see an officer get their arm in a window like that or drug by a vehicle, they were reaching in to take the keys out of the ignition.
This ought to be real good!
Unbelievable. I don't really see any way in which the officer is not to be found guilty of murder.
Like others have said, how could his arm get stuck in a manually cranking window?
Why make an aggressive move like reaching in to shut the ignition when the officer could just have easily radioed the LP# and had the car stopped later.
We aren't getting the whole story, by a long shot. Definitely something missing here.