I like this exchange with you but please forgive me if I sound like a smart ass but anybody who falls asleep inebriated behind the wheel is definitely a danger to himself and to society. Futhermore, given the situation, if he had better aim, then we would be dealing with the possibility of a blind/paralized/dead police officer, then what?
I have no problems with the outcome of this particular incident. . . you live by the sword, you eventually die by the sword. Sad but true. His family is now outraged. Outraged at what exactly? Where were they when he was charged for his previous crimes? I bet you they weren't this outraged. This is a typical case of lack of accountability IMO.

Well, I may sound like a smart ass as well, but had this situation been handled better we would have had one less dead person. Every other outcome would have been better than what transpired.

And I wonder if the man had been white, if the results would have been the same? Perhaps I am a cynic but I think they would have been.

Goodnight.

There are statistically speaking more cases where a white person gets shot by police. Unfortunately, such instances are not conducive to the media's liberal agenda they're trying to push and therefore, you will most likely not ever see the same outrage over a white person's death.

Is there a law that say you can't sleep in a parked car, even when inebriated, even when on parole?

Just watched a very good Joe Rogan podcast with an ex Navy Seal: Jocko Willink. His opinion is: more money is needed for police training which is lacking at present in his view. An interesting interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL5RzI5LyVc

Good Morning
Statistics can be used to prove anything. 88 is 20.5% of 429. Blacks represent 13% of the US population. 1 in 5 of police killings are black, while blacks are 1 in 10 of the population.

Yes, but you need to be in the back seat, and the keys NOT in the ignition.

Tom

I think you're first issued a hefty fine followed by suspension of driving licence followed by your criminal record being stained for the next 5 years. Even for driving at 150 km/hr no problems....I don't think one needs to show up in court, unless they want to make a contestation.
As for sleeping in a parked car, it's not illegal neither a factual problem in CH.

Yet another daft law disproportionately affecting ethnic minorities who are less likely to be able to afford cars with keyless entry.

Yes certainly but a fraction of African Americans commit crime at a disproportionate level (50% of violent crime and murder). Hence, it is obvious that they get shot at a higher rate in respect to the population size but not in total numbers.

Because it's absolutely impossible to remove the key from the ignition from the backseat.

Err, what?

This must be the argument of the year. Congratulations!

None of our 11 vehicles have keyless entry.

Must be because we are ethnic minorities here.

Tom

Precisely.

Right, so you _do_ think it's OK for cops to go around murdering people, just because they have a previous criminal record. Glad we've cleared that one up.

Not sure you understand what "affected disproportionately" means. There are also poor white people.

A previous criminal record the police encountering him sleeping in a car could NOT possibly have known about. It's a facile argument to suggest this makes poor treatment of him OK.

Maybe you're not understanding the broader picture or are possibly miscontruding it on purpose. If you steal a weapon and then attack the owner of the weapon with his stolen weapon, then it is very much justified to shoot the thief with the weapon, because the owner of said weapon would obviously want to defend themselves. Add into the mix that you were intoxicated and by means of violently attacking the owner, you've acquired the weapon. That's already at least 3 felonies right there. What does this all have to do with his previous criminal record? A lot. He got sentenced to 7 years and only stayed for one. . . because the system is racist (I'm being sracastic here). He should have been in jail. Do you follow me until now? Good. Now, he knew right then and there, that if they were to arrest him for a dui, that he would be violating his parole, thus, had nothing to lose. Desperation combined with alcohol make for a bad recipe and he chose wrong.

He wasn't just sleeping in a car. He was passed out drunk at a drive through. Try to keep up, will you please.

In addition, it appears the officers also did not render assistance after he was on the ground. Instead, the one who shot Brooks started kicking him. Last night on the news they said the second officer is taking the super rare step of turning to a state's witness - he will testify against his fellow officer in exchange for reduced charges against himself.

AFAIK the law there is that if you're drunk and in a vehicle you can be charged with drink driving aka DUI or DWI. If you're in the back seat and don't have keys it's probably a lesser charge. In this case DUI was obvious, he was sitting in the drive-thru lane of a restaurant and he clearly was the one who drove there.

At the moment the officers approached the car, maybe not. However, dispatch or the officers themselves would have run the number plates on the car before approaching it so would have at least learned who the owner was or if the car was stolen.

Brooks provided his information to the officers. They would have run his info through their database and quickly discovered they weren't dealing with a choir boy. Right or wrong, that likely would have set a tone in their minds - "we're dealing with a guy who has resisted arrest before and been convicted of assault and battery. This guy might get violent so we have to be prepared to use force."

LiB, I get what you're trying to say, but you're definitely coming across as if you think he deserved to die because he was a bad guy. He wasn't a great guy but he didn't deserve to die.

What I think you're getting at is that given all the circumstances (drunk, prior violent record, etc.) it's not shocking to you or I that this situation ended the way it did. To others, it's a huge shock.

It is absolutely not a shock to the rest of us. It is a shock to noone how often this stuff happens now.

This is why we seem broadly to support this novel civil rights campaign.