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Okay, i want to bring in tim alexander, civil rightsternally and former police officer himself. i don t know if you were able to see all of that. we played those two videos. what it appears to have happened, tim, is that officers stopped tyre nichols. he wound up fleeing. they put him on the ground. he got up and tried to flee. they tased him. they deployed pepper spray. they seemed to have sprayed one another in the face with the pepper spray. and then they caught up to him, closer to his home, and then this beating happened that we just played on air. so the questions, i have a couple questions for you, tim. this idea of the fleeing felon rule. the idea that when a person runs from police, they actually wind ....
Will restrict police officers a autonomy. police officers are likely to exhaust other means when in proximity to white people who are criminals or suspected of being criminals but black people, people of color, they shoot becauset they thinkthy mut be deadly. ste stephon clark wasn t posing a deadly threat. he was still killed by police. let s talk about the law, bill, proposed bill with danny here. dan danny, it parses the words, reasonable versus necessary. from the legal standpoint, what s the difference right there? they re just as elusive as reasonable is to necessary. the tendency the garner standard gives us and the cases that gave us eric garner? no, not eric garner. this is a much earlier case. decades ago. that was the genesis of the fleeing felon rule. got it. the idea that an officer, if he believes that a person will pose a danger to themselves or to others, he may shoot and use ....
This was the one time, this one time that a lawyer went into court and proved that the police were lying and that this really was a police killing. and it was it was like a lightening strike because it s not like people were successfully going into court after that and doing it again. right, yeah. i feel like this has parallels to the walter scott case. i want to read a little about the description here. this is before the fleeing felon rule. what is shocking is how little has changed except for the new public and political awareness which is a problem. the walter scott was a man who was fleeing. it was one of the rare cases that had justice in the case. without video there wouldn t have been a jury. without video, the story would have been he turned in a threatening manner as if to shoot or there would have been a planted weapon. which was tried. in this book, the police ....