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Originally Posted by bahbahmickey
Nutella, goofy and slighted all sound like this guy's mother who yesterday (before she saw the video) said:
"He was a good person. Everybody around him would say that," she said. "My son didn't hurt nobody. He didn't do nothing to nobody."
Technically she may be right because I don't think any of his shots hit anyone, but someone who shoots at the police likely has hurt other people.
The police have literally said that they don't know themselves who McAtee was firing at, it even says that explicitly in the article you linked.
As for the video, it doesn't actually show him shooting and it takes some serious analysis to even be sure he had a gun. The video also has no audio and it is completely impossible to tell when shots were fired by anyone; the only evidence of shots at all is smoke/dust flying around and some glass shattering (I don't think I would have even realised he got shot himself if all I knew was what was in the video). The absolute most you could claim from the video is that he appeared to raise his arm and may well have had a gun in it, and even that is circumstantial because the only time there is a vaguely clear image of a gun is when it is on the floor after he was shot and he presumably dropped it.
As for the police chief being fired, I personally don't give a crap whether the officers were justified in firing or not, if there is no enforcement of body cameras being used then he deserves to be fired regardless.