Hodgetwins dissect the felony murder charges against officers in Rayshard Brooks' shooting, contrasting claims of his 41-minute calm cooperation with accusations of lying, punching an officer, and firing a gun. They debate whether deadly force was justified given Brooks' intoxication and parole status or if the prosecution sets an impossible standard for split-second decisions under adrenaline. The discussion highlights the double standard in classifying tasers as deadly weapons and concludes that politicizing these arrests risks eroding trust by suggesting police must be flawless while criminals face no consequences. [Automatically generated summary]
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We have decided to issue warrants in this case today.
One of the things that we noted from our evaluation was that Mr. Brooks on the night of this incident was calm, he was cordial, and really displayed a cooperative nature.
But for 41 minutes and 17 seconds, he followed every instruction.
He answered the questions.
Mr. Brooks was never informed that he was under arrest for driving under the influence.
Man, that press conference was tough to watch.
Everything that came out of his mouth was a lie.
Calm and cordial.
It was a lie by omission.
Calm and cordial?
I mean, what are you comparing Ray Shard to?
A damn lion?
Ripping a wildebeest apart?
If he's cordial, I hate to see him when he's pissed off.
I mean, that's funny.
Calm and cordial?
He's anything but calm and cordial.
Punching a cop in the face, taking his taser, taking the taser and pointing at a cop's face, shooting it.
I'm pretty sure if you get tased in the face, you're done.
Yeah, you're dead.
Your brain is fried.
You're talking about Ray Shard didn't know he was under arrest.
Really?
The cop said you had too much to drink.
Put your hands behind your back.
This guy's been arrested for DUI before.
I think he know how this works.
Do you think he needs to spell it out for them?
Now, as far as charging these cops with murder, that is a bit of a stretch.
It's a reach.
Cops can use deadly force when?
When their lives are at risk or somebody else's life at risk.
Ray Shard has just shown everybody, especially the cops.
He doesn't care about anybody's life but his own.
He punches a cop in the face, takes his taser, points the taser at his face.
Okay?
He shot at the officer.
He missed.
He continues running.
If you're a police officer, is Mr. Rayshard Brooks a threat to anybody he runs into out in public?
He's just showed the cops he ain't going back to jail.
And Ray Shard has showed everybody he's going to do anything in his power to get away.
So is the public at risk?
Yeah.
You're saying the cops are not at risk?
You didn't say anything about the general public or anybody in that vicinity.
He just shot a taser at a cop.
And to my knowledge, a taser can shoot two to three times.
You keep saying that he was not a threat to those police officers.
You didn't say anything about the public.
Ray Shard was a threat to society from the moment he left his house and went to Wendy's that night.
He was drunk.
Thousands of people died every year in this country because of people like Ray Shard.
And for you to say that cops are not trained or they don't have the authority to tase anybody in the back when they're running, or most certainly you said they cannot shoot somebody in the back.
That's another lie by omission.
You're not giving people the full story.
If you see somebody with a deadly weapon and you think that there's somebody in that vicinity of that area that's at risk, a cop can most definitely shoot you in the back with a taser or handgun, even if you're running away.
Even if you run away.
I'm going down people with an M16.
I got a machete.
A cop can't shoot me in the back if I pose a risk to anybody in that area?
I mean, it's going to be up to the jury.
I mean, the jury's going to see all this footage.
Yeah.
This guy, he has no, he's putting everybody's life at risk.
He wants to get away.
He's on parole.
He has a DUI.
He doesn't want to go back to jail.
He's just showed what he's capable of to the officers, what he's willing to do to get away.
So it's the public at risk from this man.
The cops just let him run away.
Yeah, you just let him run away.
He just told his taser.
That's a deadly weapon.
And to my knowledge, when I look at this videotape, I see that taser go off one time.
These cops do not have that luxury.
Everything's happening so fast.
They got to make split-second decisions.
They have to be perfect when these criminals and these thugs can do whatever they want.
That's the message you're sending to criminals.
Cops have to be perfect.
Criminals, you can do whatever you want.
That's what y'all are preaching.
That's what y'all are telling people.
And you're pretty much saying by you arresting these cops, nobody else's life was at risk.
The cops wasn't at risk, and the public was not at risk from Rashad Brooks.
Look, we have the benefit of looking at Instant Replay like this is the NFL.
They had to make these decisions on very fast, split-second decisions.
Your adrenaline is pumping.
The guy just got punched in the face.
A dude aimed a taser at him and shot at him.
This all happened very fast.
Y'all putting these cops on the pedestal like they're robots.
They're human.
Yeah.
If Ray Shaw was human and he had any conscience, he would still be alive.
If he followed directions.
You holding these two cops to a threshold that nobody can live up to.
Most definitely, Ray Shaw can't live up to it.
He's been a criminal for the last past year.
Yeah, y'all talking about defunding the police.
Y'all ain't even got to do that.
These cops are going to start quitting.
And y'all putting their lives, politicizing our lives like this.
You're a district attorney and you are arresting these men.
Man.
Just scum.
They just arrested, they just fired two police officers for using a taser when they shouldn't have said it was a deadly weapon.
Yeah.
Mr. Rashard Brooks had a taser.
That's considered a deadly weapon.
No, it's not a deadly weapon because a criminal's got it, but when a cops use it, oh, it's most definitely a deadly weapon.