Dashcam video provides details of fatal law enforcement shooting of two Florida teens

[Celerity]

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/18/us/cocoa-florida-brevard-deputies-shot-teens/index.html

Four days after a sheriff's deputy fatally shot two Black teenagers in the coastal Florida city of Cocoa, prompting a state investigation and outrage in a community demanding answers, authorities released a 56-second dashcam video of the deadly encounter. The video clip, posted on the Brevard County Sheriff's Facebook page Tuesday evening, shows deputies attempting to stop a car last Friday after what Sheriff Wayne Ivey said was an investigation into a possible stolen vehicle.

The footage shows two marked sheriff's cruisers following the car carrying the teenagers through a residential neighborhood as it pulls into a driveway before the driver backs out and faces two deputies with their guns drawn. A deputy is heard on the camera's audio commanding the driver at least eight times to stop. There is no audio for the first 36 seconds of the video.

In a statement released with the video, Ivey said the driver "turns and accelerates the vehicle" toward the deputy, who was "then forced to fire his service weapon in an attempt to stop the deadly threat of the car from crashing into him." Ivey said, "You can actually see the tires of the vehicle turn sharply as the car accelerates" toward the deputy, who was "in immediate danger of being struck by the vehicle." The sheriff said two firearms were recovered in the car. There were at least three occupants.

The teenagers who were killed were identified as Sincere Pierce, 18, and Angelo Crooms, 16, who the sheriff said was the driver.
Until Tuesday, authorities had provided few details about the deaths of the two young men -- which occurred amid a national reckoning over racial injustice in America, following the police killings of other Black men and women such as George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, among others.

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[mr_lebowski]

1. Yes, clearly defying orders and trying to escape but NOT headed towards driving over the officer

In fact the officer moves toward putting himself in front of the car just before firing.

These cops just didn't want to let the little n-words escape, period.

And this is a 'possible stolen car' case?

You're gunning teenagers down over a possible stolen car situation? Really?

Cars are really that important, eh?

Murderous f***ing thugs.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

2. You saw exactly what I saw.