According to his daughter via Facebook...
"Love you always Dad....❤
"See ya next time I see ya" 😘
January 3, 1948 - May 11, 2022 😢💔"
For those of you who may be unaware, Randy Weaver was involved in a stand-off with federal agents in 1992. Several members of his family were killed, as was their family dog...all because he didn't appear in court. RIP.
Can you cite any cases where the cops have their guns trained on a guy, and yet the guy is fast enough to produce a weapon and get the first shot off?
I get what you’re saying about the general case: cops are holstered and a dude draws and fires before the cop can draw and fire. But once you’ve got a gun trained on them, I don’t see how you’d get the first shot off.
So what I’m saying is that the cops were safe and could have reacted more slowly
"The cop should have waited until the minimum amount of time it takes someone to draw and fire a weapon to fire first" is such a bizarre take I don't even know what to say. I don't think the parties involved in this shooting were operating millisecond to millisecond because they, as far as I know, were not robots.
I would say trying to justify the shooting of a clearly unarmed, non-violent person who was shot repeatedly in the back is the more bizarre take. The cops did not meet any conditions of a justified kill, and should have been tried and executed.