Biker charged with crime after recording police

[Lamron]

This biker accidently recorded a police officer committing a crime and now HE'S being charged with illegally recording it. If the biker had been carrying a gun, we would have had a dead cop and video evidence proving it was a justified shooting.

tinyurl.com/zcwi0d

[Death's Shadow]

link is broken bud. maybe they took it down.

[Lamron]

Try this:

www.abc2news.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=22384

[Death's Shadow]

That is a load of BS. Cops must identify right away, especially if pulling a weapon. That officer is lucky the guy on the bike was not armed.

[Lamron]

Here's another cop vs. biker. The cop turned on his lights and the biker pulls over and stops. Then the cop jumps out and shoots him in the back.

abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=news/local&id=7433661

[popeye]

talk about over-reacting...cop didn't give him a chance!...disgusting...i know its tough out there,but the cop should have waited,behind his own car if nececary..pop's peeeved!...

[RedRock]

Well, what we see from the dash-cam view is more revealing than what the shooting officer saw, which appears to me to be a biker turning in a way that would hide from the officer approaching to his left rear an iwb gun at the right front or right front-side position while the biker's right upper extremity was moving in a way that looked like it was drawing (or could have been drawing) that gun. So I can see why the officer felt threatened. The question is, though, did he not feel that he still had the edge on the biker, even if he was drawing a gun, that he could have waited just another half-second or so to see if he really was being threatened, while retreating some toward the driver's side/door of his squad car for cover?