I would say that dude shot himself because by going for the gun he would either be shot or tasered either way resulting in the same outcome.

he got himself shot thats for sure,

The cop said on multiple occassions he should get on the floor

@Lucian the zap from the tazer set the bullets off, I assume they all went off in the clip, and the one in the chamber was the only bullet that left the gun and shot him

Is it even possible to fire off bullets from the zap of a taser?

why are statements of twitter officials so confusing?:

https://twitter.com/slashdot/status/1015536062507053056

I think it is the reflex action from the taser that causes him to press the trigger

that's what I thought

I'm an electrician and I'd need a long hard think to answer that, so an assumption of possibility is probably okay

It looks like he only got shot once by the red spray coming from him, and the cops weren't too worried about bullets bouncing around randomly

what year is this even from, such bad quality

Idk, it's from Facebook, there are no facts on Facebook

i'm not 100% sure if he's holding the gun but by the way he's holding the hand before falling down seems like he's got it in hand

9.9 million potentially spammy or automated accounts per week."

but then its said: that many of the accounts rarely tweeted

???

Closer look, the cop drops the tazer and pulls his gun, half those shots are the cops

Maybe those rarely tweeted accounts are the automated ones?

i had twitter account that i used for 5 minutes and was parked for 7 years..

i think there are millions who made accounts many year ago to try out twitter and never came back

The other cops might have shot him after the initial shot and not the one that is holding the taser

He reached, man.

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I don't think cops are saint by all means, but I have 0 sympathy for someone who reaches for a gun after 1 min stand off with cops refusing to cooperate

Sadly, too many people are stupid like that

Nah the cop with the tazer definitely drops it, and at least 2 gun sounds match his gun kicking

Not sure why he didn't want to kneel though

Maybe he's from beyond the wall?

There should be a 30 second law. Do what the cop says in 30 seconds or you get shot.
Figure out whats right and wrong after the fact

More emphases on body cam, less arguing and BS

It would soon rid the corrupt cops

well a timer would be too extreme,

But I do agree something should be done to protect cops when something like this happens, when some dude obstructs
And yes, more cameras, better for all involved

The 30 second law is not a good idea tho

Yea..also media making poc extremely paranoid about cops doesn't help as well

15 seconds it is then

heh

If they -only- ever talk about cops doing bad stuff when it concerns POC it makes them paranoid.

well, same is reverse, when media talks about cops getting shot by unruly colorlings, cops get ichy trigger fingers

or the reverse, cops won't do anything for fear of being deemed a criminal in the court of public opinion

yea

If every cop was forced to record everything, and all recording was made public, nobody would ever have a reason to not follow orders