Shooting and killing a man in cold blood in his car in a parking lot in broad daylight?? That's first degree murder! That doesn't make any sense.
Other than that glaring piece of nonsense, it was a good film.
Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and / or doesn't.
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Have you been avoiding the news lately? One cop after another has been accused of killing someone unarmed, and aside from one or two cases where it was caught on video, they've all gotten away with it (at least from a legal standpoint).
shareWouldn't take much other than to say he pulled a gun on them and they reacted.
shareThe cop first shouted out "HE'S GOT A GUN" and then proceeded to shoot him. They know that he's pretty much always carrying a weapon so they weren't too worried, or they had a prop to put there before the investigators arrive. Although them walking through the whole parking lot with their weapons already drawn was stupid.
shareThe gun under the seat, he gave to his nephew, to point at the guy in the car.
shareThat actually happened (allegedly) in 1988... the cops killed Graeme Jensen, and his gang killed two cops at random just as depicted in this movie.
shareAmadou Diallo? ( not sure I've spelled that right )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Amadou_Diallo
The shooting of Amadou Diallo occurred on February 4, 1999, when Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea, was shot and killed by four New York City Police Department plain-clothed officers—Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon and Kenneth Boss—after they mistook him for a rape suspect from one year earlier. The officers fired a combined total of 41 shots, 19 of which struck Diallo, outside his apartment at 1157 Wheeler Avenue in the Soundview section of The Bronx. The four were part of the now-defunct Street Crimes Unit. All four officers were charged with second-degree murder and acquitted at trial in Albany, New York.[1]
Diallo was unarmed, and a firestorm of controversy erupted subsequent to the event as the circumstances of the shooting prompted outrage both within and outside New York City. Issues such as police brutality, racial profiling, and contagious shooting were central to the ensuing controversy.
see - Bruce Springsteen's song "American Skin (41 Shots)";[25]