Atlanta has little to no police presence now

[Santiago]

You know that they haven't released the video that the DA is referencing correct? The start of this video is a split second after the kick.

Collecting themselves? These men signed up to ****ing protect and serve in the line of duty. You have someone dying right in front of you and you need to be on the clock COLLECTING YOURSELF??? Holy ducking shit. Imagine a doctor getting an emergency patient and taking two minutes to collect themselves while standing over their body as they die. **** outta here.

If you put on that badge and pull out that gun, you better not need time to ****ing collect yourself. What the **** are they training at this point.

Honestly I don't really get anyone who supports that. All that's being asked is to not use excessive escalating force. Stop killing people. And the police respond to those protests by upping the use of force and killing more people. That cop is not the judge. That cop is not the jury of his peers. So why the hell is mr. executioner given free reign over what you can do in that situation?

It's like you people just want to spit in the face of the constitution and the only reason I can find is hate. I really don't see any other reason. You want to just forego the 5th, the 8th, and the 14th amendments and think it's totally justified because a man with his back turned is shooting a taser that only works close range and was apparently out of charge (or at most had 1 left.) The man was 0 threat to lives any more. He could have been apprehended later easily and given his due process. Instead Judge Dredd decided to be JJ&E and took his life. Plain and simple.

The DA does not have any video of the kick, or it would be released. He actually said "a witness" claims they kicked.
Two weeks ago the same DA said using a Taser in Georgia is a deadly weapon.
So the case will be closed or not convicted because the police in that state were being attached by a deadly weapon.

I would love to see how you handle and defend yourself as a cop if a guy did all that to you and then aimed the taser at your head, while you are running at him and you are not sure what he has.
Your mind is made up. You heard what you wanted to hear, and not very impartial.

The DA has come out before GBI has completed their investigation and the DA never consulted with them.
The cops followed procedure being fired upon by the guy.....so just a suggestion, do not grab anything off the cop and try to fire it at them and you should make it just fine.
Another suggestion - don't beat your kids and go to jail, and while on parole fight with cops while aiming a weapon at them.