I don’t think the person you’re responding to is trying to suggest otherwise. You can be curious about the context even while accepting that no possible context makes this okay.
I too am curious about what, exactly, set this officer off to escalate to such completely deranged behaviour. Not because I think there’s a justification, just because I want to know exactly what kind of lunacy this is.
Probably just racism. The cop “knew” the pedestrian was a dangerous criminal, he just didn’t have any probable cause. So he had to take matters into his own hands.
I don’t think the person you’re responding to is trying to suggest otherwise. You can be curious about the context even while accepting that no possible context makes this okay.
I too am curious about what, exactly, set this officer off to escalate to such completely deranged behaviour. Not because I think there’s a justification, just because I want to know exactly what kind of lunacy this is.
Probably just racism. The cop “knew” the pedestrian was a dangerous criminal, he just didn’t have any probable cause. So he had to take matters into his own hands.