I read this in FO yesterday and am still outraged, as I'm sure Mr. Finch's family is. "Swatting" is no excuse to take a man's life. Violent force is ALWAYS supposed to be the last resort- lamentably, it is now the first it seems. I know that it's little consolation, but I hope the Finch family sues the crap out of the City of Wichita.
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yeah...well said, there better be a lawsuit. This is another one of those cases where they try to place responsibility on someone else for their own actions. Sure, the kid who made the call should be charged with something, but so should the cop.
Absolutely! And you made another good point about the cops having to have seen that the call came from somewhere outside of Kansas (or Missouri- KC covers both). They're just trying to shift blame away from the cop... there's no excuse to shoot an unarmed man. Worst case scenario... the guy was reaching for a gun- the cop had his trained on the guy already. He had plenty of time to discern whether or not the guy was coming out with a weapon before firing.
I've shot people and believe me had that cop hit him once AFTER seeing a gun, it would have stopped him.