BBM. Respectfully, I'm surprised that you think nobody takes the stand anymore. It's a well known fact that it's in an accused officer's best interest to take the stand and tell the jury that they feared for their life. This guy may have seemed authentic to you on the stand but at the end of the day he lied about what happened (hand caught in the steering wheel) and went against training when he reached into the guy's car.
OK we all (regulars) know what we had better do, in sharing our feelings not to get the thread shut.
There was only thread 1where Tricia was involved that I had been on that I so got the TOS- very helpful to me. I had my share of timeouts!
I get it now -- so I want to share how I got here. 40 seconds after it all happened, shooting someone in the head is kinda a deal.
Noone after the previous 3 minutes , has the time to make up this "story"..
His first utterances were he dragged me. In my therapist mind, yeh what was in reality 2 feet could feel like 20 feet to me, I was mortified.
He had already been , his words "squirrly, he at that time had a bottle of gin on him , in my mind, he pulls the door shut on me, he starts the car on me, he puts it gear.
Its awesome all this technology 15 months later - millisecond by milliseconds , to say the shot happened before the car engine was heard.
In the moment, I would conclude, that someone who started the car, put it in drive intentions were NOT to stay there.
A millisecond later, after the shot the engine roars. It translates to his conclusion a millisecond before that he was going to peel away.
And he was not wrong. That IS what occurred
In my brain processing what FELT like 10 feet , was in reality 24 inches can be authentic.
40 seconds later his utterance "he dragged me" is congruent with what it felt like to him 10 feet. Watch him right after he IS checking out his arm , his leg, he is having sensations in both.
The notion, that someone who in the last 240 seconds, can come up with this whole deal I am going to say I was dragged 15 feet , I am going to get colleagues who have been on the scene 180 seconds to back up this story I made up in 240 seconds to cover my butt, after trauma is totally not how it can work.
Brain wise. There is too much going on - it was not like two days later he came up with "i was dragged" it was 40 seconds, that what was going on his brain that 3 seconds.
There IMO nothing incongruent with a person that refuses to get out of the car, starts it, shift the gear, to come up with the next logical conclusion that he is gonna step on the gas pedal.
That is a logical conclusion! It is what happened.
The deal that his arm was under, around or whatever the steering wheel is irrelevant, to him in that second he could not get away from the car in that second.
That would lead me to feel trapped, he tried to get out and away, and in that one second, for whatever reason could not.
a year and half later all this millisecond later stuff is awesome, the brain is not fast, there is an order to how he processed in that 3 seconds.
I would be so scared............................
And to imagine, that
I would be thrilled that a cop who killed an AA , did not get convicted of murder, personally , is quite amazing - but I watched the trial...........................
Respectfully, anyone who watched the entire trial, that differs I would love to be challenged on how I got here!
