The autopsy report says he died of two gunshot wounds to the back and calls the manner of death "homicide."
So they had him on DUI, resisting arrest and assaulting a PO. They had his car and thus knew where he lived. They could easily have tracked him down and arrested him.
Instead, they shot him in the back and murdered him.  
Shooter goes to jail.

But you don't get the difference, do you, pinhead?

But LT you have to understand that when by because of experience or taught, he didn't trust the police.
So he thought that he had to run for his life.
Blame whoever gave him that idea.
But hadn't he ran and still gotten killed?
Hmmm. Either way he is dead
Again.

...Steven Gaynor said he believed the shooting was "legitimate."  "A stun gun in the hands of someone who is not trained to use it can be lethal.  If I'm an untrained individual and I aim it at your head, that could be deadly.  You could lose an eye."  He cited the Supreme Court case of Ralphie's Parents vs. Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle.

and THEN was shot in the back. Not a threat to anyone.

In the heat of the moment, not sure I would have been able to process every point in your post.  After the fact, yes, makes total sense.  The perp WAS running and no longer a threat.

And NOT some misplaced, knee-jerk response to impose his will on a suspect. Just because his adrenaline is up doesn't mean he gets to shoot someone in the back twice simply to keep them from running away, even if they've assaulted him.
We have a right to expect better.

You simply can never condone shooting someone in the back at a point where he's unarmed. The cop is a gutless pussy and a murderer who lost his self-control under stress.
The guy deserved to be in jail and was clearly the perpetrator of several felonies. None of which carried the death penalty.

First off both the cops and the perp/victim interacted for about 40 minutes BEFORE the situation escalated and from everything I have seen both Brooks was polite and compliant and the cops were courteous and professional. This is simply NOT a black and white situation.  

Was this an unfortunate incident? Yes.   Could it have been done differently? Yes. He resisted and went a for cop’s weapon. He fired the weapon and the police officer returned fire within a second.  Training conditioned that officer to return fire. If you want to blame someone, blame the system, not the PO.

Yes I think we should wait at least 50 hours to call this cop a murderer. smh

Never fuck with the cops, just say "Yes sir", "No sir". Keep your mouth shut.
See my dad was part of that Zoot Suit" crowd back in the 40's. He got his bell rung a few times, mostly for wearing a suit or having his hair styled. He told me about the police brutality back then. Sometimes he got Jack'd up without the suit but because of his hair cut.
So in my youth, having long hair I kept my mouth shut whenever we got pulled over..except poor Mushy, I told him to STFU...but...oh well.
I'm torn on this one. It's not like an Eric Garner, who's death to this day still bothers me or George Floyd. Seeing some executed right in front or your eyes.

because what you describe is NOT what happened.

I've just found new and amusing ways to pull your chain.

It’s been said so many times by so many different spokesmen “Don’t become confrontational, don’t resist, and whatever you do, don’t try to wrest a cop’s weapon away from him”. And yet it continues. Please tell me why. This is not a question of who is right or wrong, or whether or not you feel you are being unfairly treated by the color of your skin. It’s a question of common sense and whether or not you want to see the sun rise tomorrow. That’s the message that should be coming from black pulpits and other black leaders.

It happens more to black, latinos then say whites. It's just a slow build up to how they've been treated since youth.They went along with the "program", the "Yes Sir", "No Sir" and they still got busted up. I know a few cops, sorry to say but they got off on this sort of treatment. You look the fool they you'll get yours.
You can only take so much, so I get it

This officer has a pretty good defense to a state law murder charge based on the breathtakingly broad Georgia  arrest statute:

Back when I was a kid, getting "tuned up" was just part of getting arrested, especially if you were non white. Yes some of the white kids got beat up by the cops too, but to a much lesser extent than most of my friends who tended to be some shade of brown.  

But it still happens, and I'd say in minorities communities it's still there to some degree. Maybe not so as in the 60's-90's. Cops have toned it down. and I agree a Psych eval should be strongly considered but all rookies don't come in "jaded" they actually have a fresh innocents about them.But in time, once they see the element that they have to deal with and go through all the bullshit experiences, the veterans train them in non police academy law then  they become "hard" or "Jaded"....It's a tough profession and it'll mind fuck you to no end.

that was Laffy saying that? As I read I kept thinking that you had stolen, taken over his name. I kept looking for a difference in the "Laffy" name and see that is was a clone. Then he and Inicky are disagreeing by 10 or 90%, what's going on here? Not that I agree with what was he saying. But what he was saying was so not him.  
What was this all about? Or did I read it wrong? I have to go back and re read it. Even LaffyTaffy agrees and calls it the best post ever.  
I'm confused.

but this is one time that I understand your confusion, it's rare that the Bobbsie twins disagree on anything lately. I wonder which one of them is going to have to sleep on the couch tonight?

You and Hack NEVER disagree and you polish his pole at every opportunity.
You two are the Stupid Twins.

cops, throw their hands up in the air and say, I quit?  How long before NOBODY wants to be a cop?  The job is too tough, high risk, low reward.  Ultimately, those who are putting themselves and cops in difficult situations, will scream the loudest when there is nobody around to help them.

tough because we have human beings, dealing with other human beings.  Don't be such an ignorant asshole.  Yes, I know that is the only thing that comes natural to your sorry ass.

tough because we have human beings, dealing with other human beings.  Don't be such an ignorant asshole.  Yes, I know that is the only thing that comes natural to your sorry ass.

I am hearing MANY cops will resign in NY/NJ this year. They have had enough. The ones that stay will be forced into a slow down. What is the point of putting their life on the line anymore?

Not only have you replied  to him numerous times after posting to ignore him and telling everyone not to reply to hi etc.etc. but you post  the exact same post, twice, within a minute of each other…..you are losing it boy. Yes he is really getting to you and you clearly are a mentally and emotionally weak person.

But after watching the video several times it clearly was a bad shoot.  Brookes is running away.  It’s not clear if the other cop hit him with his taser as he takes off.   As he’s running he is about 20 feet away from the second (shooter) cop and turns while still running and shoots the taser wildly, missing that cop by 10 feet at least.  He then turns and continues running .  A second later the cop fires twice.   This is far outside of POST and usual departmental shooting guidelines.  In spite of what the chicken little folks here say, at that moment he was not posing any threat to others.  He was simply stoned out of His mind and running for his life.  

This is going downhill FAST.

Maybe they had skeletons in their closet and in today's LE, maybe they just wouldn't have fit in. Old habits are hard to shake. Getting rid of relics may not be such a bad thing. They could have been the next Daniel Pantaleo.
Maybe they were the "bad" apples...Hey good riddance is what I see it.

beings here, Nick.  You know we do not live in a perfect world.  We talk nonstop about the proper training for cops.  Civilians need to know, when they resist, they contribute to the chaos.  Bad things usually happen when we mix weapons with chaos.  If a subject is the cause of the chaos, they share responsibility for the outcome, plain and simple.  And, I'd rather the cops have the weapons, than some guy asleep in his car, drunk, 100 times out of 100.

In horrific economic times? When they WONT be eligible for unemployment? Is that your experience in life with bad people? Seriously?  

Work slow downs, the "blue flu" (i.e. sick call outs) and resignations all going through the roof across the country.

If they're really a good cop, doing what's right...they DON'T QUIT.
These guys were probably loose canyon to begin with, and if that Tulsa relic wants to leave, sayonara, adios.
Really, if they want to leave, in these Horrific times, then let them and they're probably too stupid to realize what need to be done. Meatheads if they quit.

If they want to leave, that's up to them. And 19 are leaving? WAAAAAA!. There are about 700,000 cops in the US.
Also, how the fuck do YOU know the police will be whiter? You don't even know how may will leave or who they are.
IOW, you are full of shit, Hack.
And why do you care? Your family isn't cops.

I agree with, completely.

better yet they would probably offer a ride by saying this is not a good neighborhood!!! I can go on ...
How dare you say it was not a black and white issue? You’re a racist masquerading as a fair play guy!! A KKK is better than you ...  at least they are transparent and not a veiled racist like you!!!  
You’re the same person that says in your early years you’re told we don’t hire japs blah blah blah ... now look what happened to you? I won’t even glorify it by calling it Stockholm syndrome it is worse than that because you’re not a hostage! Or maybe you perceive yourself as such because you want to be liked by the same who discriminated against you in your early years!

When he was sleeping in the car ...

have a breaking point.  Even the best of the best, most moral of the moral, must get to a point, on a shift, during the month, or at some point in their careers where they tire of putting on a good face.  Even those, with the truest intentions of helping people, day in and day out, have to get tired of being disrespected by a bunch of punks the cops have the responsibility to protect.

The cop DID follow what's probably protocol everywhere: where you suspect someone of DUI -- and passing out in your car in a drive-through is certainly probable cause of that -- a cop must test the driver in some way, black or white. Once the suspect popped the breathalyzer, they had to arrest him. So when they went to cuff him they'd done nothing wrong. And then he assaulted them. Felony.
The only issue is, was it legal for them to shoot him in the back as he was running away? I say no.

Surely not a potential DUI. Why was he given the breath analyzer in the first place? He was not on a public property. The parking lot belongs to Wendy’s. How bad was the possible cause for cops to come in? Once they came in, we’re they in their right to frisk him? Or, search his car? “No broken tail light’ here ... were cops right to do that?
Why was he being handcuffed? What’s the charge? Sleeping in his car in a drive through? Is that a crime in any state?
I am not up with laws but would like to know.

He was found passed out drunk in his vehicle in the fucking drive through lane of Wendy's. You go try that sometime and see if your dumb white ass doesn't end up in jail too.  

goes, does not take an active imagination to know, he would have come to at some point.  We all do.  Then what?  Wakes up in the parking lot and drives off.  We both know he was not going to walk on his own, or carry his car on his back and take it home.

sister’s. And what’s wrong with sleep it off and go home?
What laws are broken?
Oh, why don’t you believe what he said about walking to sisters house? Because he is Black?
I have seen white cops do let white walk home under similar situation.

but not anymore. Can you imagine the outrage in this age of MADD if a cop were to let someone obviously drunk go and he ended up hurting or killing someone after they let him go?  Cops simply don't have much leeway on whether or not to arrest someone under those circumstances any more. Color is simply not an issue in a clear DUI case. It's not a matter of race, it's just the way things are now.  

No need to cut me any slack! Stop with that condescension!
The point was it is a black and white issue.
Let him leave the car and let him walk!!! How much racist you have to be not to see that?
Where was the crime, moron?

and fired a police grade taser at him. That is felony level resisting arrest. The battery in that kind of taser is often strong enough for 30, or so charges.  So you have got a guy running away with a weapon that arguably can cause serious bodily injury.  Suppose Brooks had stopped, turned around, and started firing the taser at the officer?

why do police use them INSTEAD of guns when they can? Please stop trying to make a false equivalent.
And why must we "Suppose Brooks had stopped, turned around, and started firing the taser?"
He DIDN'T.
So it's murder.

And the fat fuck cops, who has a gun runs away...didn't even try to cap his knee or tackled him down.  
Needless to say if Matt was black, it would have been lights out.  
Even their fucking dogs runs and hide, what kinda mut is that?

and “reasonable belief,” and the link that shows that 153 autopsies found “stun guns” caused, or contributed, to the person’s death?

First the dude was naked as a jay bird and the cop wisely waited for back up instead of wrestling around with a crazy naked man.   This looked like a mental health issue.  

That does put a different perspective on it.

You gotta ask yourself, what if he was black??  Would the one cop been so eloquently patient?? Just wondering.

It looked like Brooks fired and the cop fired back within a split second of each other. "IF" that was the case than the shooting would at least appear to be justified, or at least within a very gray area that at the very least would not be criminal.

The DA said that the officer knew that both shots had been fired (I only saw one) and, therefore, the taser posed no threat of injury to anyone.  Hence the officer could not have had a reasonable belief that Brooks posed a threat if this is true.  I thought tasers could still be used as stun guns – as opposed to firing darts- until the battery went out. But the DA did not mention that.  

and as I said in my earlier post, "My mind can be changed" and it has been.  

It looked like  a little over a second  between Brooks firing the Taser and the cop firing back.  At that point, Brooks had already turned forward and continued running away.   The cops are trying to spin this as “lawful bu awful”.   The problem with that is he shot him in the back as he was running away, so it is highly unlikely anybody is going to find those cop was legitimately scared for his life.  

I don’t need to play race based brain games on purely speculative what if scenarios.  I don’t know enough about the case to second guess that cops thinking at the time.  There was clearly back up on the way.  

1) First of all, did you know the perp was a convicted felon and was on probation at the time for hurting children?

..."Malinois" to show that you know police dogs are very often Belgian Malinois rather than the similar-looking German Shepard?  Seriously?

that he did not understand the standard for the use of deadly force by an officer, and that he talked about a lot of irrelevant pre shooting stuff. He never once mentioned the arrest statute (unless I missed it) and its three “safe harbors” for the use of deadly force which is what the murder charge is about.  He also  did not understand that the Garner and Connor cases address civil liability for violation of Fourth Amendment rights- not state law murder.

A good defense attorney will destroy this nutty, political motivated DA's case. It's "fire...ready...aim" with this guy. Why couldn't he wait until the GBI (Georgia Board of Investigation) was done its investigation? What is the rush? Is he THAT scared of the "peaceful" protests that would ensue?

Now I have respect for both of those guys, and they may have proof, but I haven't seen it. With tons of video from that event, I am sure someone has it, if it exists.

have been blaming the system - calling for "systemic" reforms.