Video shifts initial view of fatal Nashville police shooting

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Jonathan Mattise, Associated Press Updated 8:35 pm, Tuesday, February 14, 2017






NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Newly obtained surveillance video has caused Nashville police to revise their account of a traffic stop on Friday that ended with a white officer shooting and killing an armed African-American man.

Police say footage first made available Tuesday shows there was no initial physical confrontation between Jocques Scott Clemmons and Nashville Officer Josh Lippert right after Clemmons ran a stop sign and they both exited their cars.

Based on a different video, police first believed Clemmons "abruptly charged at Officer Lippert, making full contact with his body."

Instead, the latest video angle shows Clemmons ran toward Lippert to get around him, stopped short of the officer, and then turned around and ran in the opposite direction, police said.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Video-shifts-initial-view-of-fatal-Nashville-10932209.php

[mr_lebowski]

1. Oh, right. Police 'first believed' ... in other words ...

Lippert SAID that's what happened (wink wink) and there was one deceptive vid that *appeared* to back his story, so that's what the Brass went with ('thin blue line' and all).

But now that there's other video evidence out there, accurately showing the truth of the situation ... OOPS! That's just 'what they first believed'. Uh-huh. Got it.

I'm sure if the other video had never appeared, they would've been SURE to straighten out the actual truth of the situation. Just needed to give them 'time to investigate', don't you know?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Police brass are suckers if they simply believe anything their officers say. . . nt

[Coventina]

3. Any time a suspect is shot in the back, I'm suspicious

[angrychair]

4. No way around a simple fact

Police forces in a dozen different 1st world nations do not have these issues.
All of the police forces in Germany combined have less police shootings (not killings, just firing a gun in line of duty) in 10 years than police in Texas have in 2015.m

Better gun control and better trained and better equipped police are the only way to avoid this insanity.

[yagotme]

5. I agree/understand everything in your post except

the "Better gun control" part. Gun control for police? Or national gun control? And how would that have affected this case?

[NickB79]

6. I believe the previous poster meant actual control of your firearm

IE, better training to know when to shoot and when to use less lethal options, and possibly better accuracy training to fire to wound instead of center-mass to the chest.

[yagotme]

7. I couldn't tell.

Better training, yes, "gun control", no.