this is my first time listening to this interview right after the killing....Reeves is obsessed with his age...I mean obsessed...I wonder if getting old and not working really did a number on his psyche which is angry anyway. Interview all about him...I feel that the guy doing the interview is on to him all the way....and who in their right mind after killing someone makes jokes??
turaj, did you catch from the audio in squad car after Reeves was arrested, when Det. Procter (or Proctor?) interrupted Reeves as he was talking about being "on Swat" and how they [the Swat Team members] thought they were "Superman", but then [blah, blah, blah, as Reeves drones on, incessantly] says that being on the Swat Team took a toll on their bodies in later years -- but begins talking specifically about his own aches and pains which he attributes to being on the Swat Team.
Det. Procter interrupts him and, point blank, asks Reeves: "So . . . why'd ya do it?" (or: why did he shoot Oulson); Reeves stops in mid-sentence of reciting a litany of his many debilitating physical ailments (contributing to his overall "feebleness" and inability to go up against the likes of a strapping giant like Chad Oulson -- who Reeves could have suffocated to death just be sitting on him, I think!) [IMO]
... anyway, I digress, but what I meant to say is that Procter caught him so off-guard. Reeves said: "Huh?" As if at first he could not
believe that Procter would even have to ask such a dumb question --- but also, too, he wanted Procter to have to repeat the question so he would have time to come up with an answer (other than: "Well, I had a gun. I was itching to use it!") [MOO] So, he kind of stumbles in his speech, as if grasping for a suitable answer for Stand Your Ground defense -- "Well, uh, I uh, guess -- uhh - I uh -- Well, I was scared for my life!!" -- or some such ridiculous comment. I am just paraphrasing here. By no means is this verbatim for what was said on the audio recording when Reeves was in squad car with Det. Procter.
Reeves was so cavalier in his attitude, yukking it up as he spoke to Det. Procter -- almost giddy -- when he first got into that squad car -- confident that all of LE would be siding with him on Stand Your Ground -- as if there was absolutely no question of whether he was justified in shooting (and killing) someone who tossed popcorn at him!
But when Procter asked him that question: "Why did you shoot him?", old Reeves realized that he was in some serious trouble.
In this hearing (SYG), Reeves started out barely audible -- his voice a soft whisper -- such that he was asked to speak up so they could hear him. He was doing his best to come across as soft-spoken, mild mannered, and respectful ("Yes, sir." "No, sir.") But boy did that tone change towards the end of his testimony when he was being questioned by the State! He could barely contain his anger and contempt for the prosecutor. It was quite something to see, and he showed his true colors. [IMO]
