Im as pro LEO as they come but... dude was shot because he didn't follow directions.
Cop handled the entire situation poorly and ended up killing someone.

I think it can be said that Jonathan's actions caused this situation to go sideways and ultimately put the cop in the position to use force. It seems to be a common theme in black community to argue with the police, resist, etc. Rolling up on a scene full tilt over a reported scuffle and broken bottle, then trying to handcuff and detain a drunk in the crowd by urself as a junior cop is poor judgement and reeks of Barney Fife.

Inexperienced cop that should have called for back up. The guy seemed impaired and wasn't really causing any problems until the cop escalated the incident.

This is a bad deal and cop got lucky that the prosecutor was sub par.

My personal policy is to 100% comply with LEO demands, reasonable or unreasonable. I’ve yet to see one of these videos where non-compliance wasn’t some sort of factor.

hard to watch as a current LEO. These situations put targets on our back and puts us further in a hole with public trust. what could he have done is go hands on but he was scared. it should have been a simple trip to the jail for a public intoxication

I like you am for the 100% comply with what I am told . But when one doesn't, especially being impaired, the last thing a cop wants to do is try to get too physical without back up. Rookie mistake, IMO. The guy was easy to deal with and it was obvious the cop was not physically capable of detaining him at that point. Should have waited for backup. That escalated the whole incident.

I was a first responder for 31 years in Dallas. I worked in the fair park and pleasant grove areas of Dallas for 24 of my 31 years. The roughest and toughest parts of Dallas.

Was on many scenes with confrontation between PD and public as well as us and the public.

I was even in the same room 5 feet away from a cop who shot another cop because she escalated a situation that did not to be without any back up present. She tried to pull her service revolver and she dropped it and started screaming "he has my gun" and just as the second cop had arrived on the scene and he tried to shoot the guy and shot her in the thigh. We had been there 5 min prior with little to no issues with the guy that she tried to manhandle w/o proper back up. And then when she dropped her gun she did not have control; of the scene or her emotions. She is lucky the other cop did not kill her.

So I have been a lot closer than watching videos.

The jury was not fair cause they had no person of color...