Cooperative?
I suppose it depends, to some extent, on
who is defining the term.
Speaking gen'ly, not re these specific movie peeps, LE, or attys.
Movie people defining cooperative.
If LE talked
briefly w some movie people, say the day of/after shooting, they have the right to refuse. If they did answer, they may say --- to MSM, on soc. media, etc, --- they cooperated fully. They were not obligated to answer questions or to speak w LE, so claiming co-op does not seem inappropriate.
If LEOs asked them to the station for
more questioning, again they can refuse. But then publicly announcing they cooperated seems to be one
shade of grey, imo. Why announce anything?
If LE then asked them for, say,
cell phone, personal possessions, etc, they may have told LE, Nope, Officer, not without a search warrant. It's within their constitutional rights to refuse, and they're not obligated to
voluntarily provide their phone, possessions, etc.,
not w'out a warrant. But publicly claiming they cooperated? Another shade of grey? Subjective? Misleading? Lying?
Again speaking
gen'ly about constitutional rights. Not saying what I would do, or what the
Rust-related shooting participants/witnesses/ bystanders should have said or done. There are
degrees of cooperation. my2ct
LEO defining cooperative?
An LEO might say a person/witness did not cooperate, unless the wit. submitted to multiple hours-long interviews over a period of days/weeks/months.
and wit.
confessed to the crime, then voluntarily provided LE w the
weapon and full color
recordings of the homicide, from three angles.
And in hi-res w Dolby sound.
J/k
Well, an LEO could dream, eh?
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*Sometimes vid clips of a death or suspected crime scene may show LEOs there immediately, trying to question bystanders/potential witnesses, who in turn shout obscenities at police, and physically attack police. Sometimes fists, sometimes other weapons, but claim they cooperated w LE.*
Again, just speaking gen'ly, sometimes these people or their attys appear in MSM, soc media, etc., to insist that they cooperated extensively w LE {{sarc/and should receive the Citizen of the Year award, if not the Nobel Peace Prize./sarc}}.
