Story about the killing: https://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-deputy-fatally-struck-man-son-shot-police/story?id=121438975

Breakdown of bodycam video: https://eu.cincinnati.com/story/news/2025/05/04/body-cam-review-ryan-hinton-fatal-cincinnati-police-shooting-2025/83443906007/

I don’t think the chief’s identification of the “gun” in the freeze frame is really beyond a reasonable doubt. I’d be fine with it if we could see the bodycam after the shooting, showing the cop going up to the kid and the gun next to him. Since if he was holding it while running, where else would it be other than roughly in the same place as that random patch of pixels?

  • SteveEnglish
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    22 days ago

    For people to debate you, you need to make a claim. Asking a question doesn’t work.

    To answer your question. No it wasn’t justified.
    Understandable? Sure. But not justified.
    There is no good justification for revenge killing. It’s literally just a version of “Because I felt like it.”

    The deputy he ran over, wasn’t even the police officer that shot his son. Those are different and unrelated agencies. So he didn’t even get revenge properly. He just murdered a random cop. Because he felt like it.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPM
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      21 days ago

      Yeah. Generally I agree with you (on both counts).

      I didn’t have time for an extensive debate and so I just threw the topic out there in hopes everyone would fight it out in the comments. It actually seems overall very reasonable so far. But I do think it’s better if the person posting the question takes some particular side or other.

      And yes, killing some random deputy because your son got himself killed while running around with a gun committing felonies is going to accomplish nothing of value at all. It’s completely understandable, but it’s also completely wrong.