What, other than systemic, embedded, institutionalized racism, would cause these COPS to say, "that looks like a bad dude"?

1. Racial profiling. Making assumptions because of a person' appearance, posing from watching television and how criminals are portrayed.
2. Maybe trying to justify how they are going to approach him. This could be because of bad police training.
3. It also shows how much fear the policewoman had, approaching the driver. This driver was treated like a wanted criminal, when all he was, was a driver of a vehicle.

Hello M:

In other words, institutional racism.

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He must have made "furtive movements"....;-D...

https://blog.simplejustice.us/2012/05/14/an-epidemic-of-furtive-movement/

Perhaps because he was a large man who was not listening to the police officer's commands?

Can't be that.  It MUST be racism...and if you suggest anything different, you're a racist. :-)

It is easy. He wears a T-shirt like this.

But oops, he dont have a gun. so how about this one:

I looked for one where he caves in somebodys face with a flying heel kick, but it seems the movie studio do not release those as stills ;-))

How about self-preservation?  Believe me when I tell you that there are times when it is clear to me that a shooting was unwarranted.  However, I'm looking at it in hindsight, not in the heat of the moment and not with my adrenaline racing through my body.  Perhaps, it's a lack of training, perhaps it's the fear of losing one's life, perhaps something the person does or fails to do that prompts an automatic response.  Unless we are in that exact situation, with the possibility of our lives being on the line, we will never know. 

(Of course you must understand that this comment makes you a racist.  Just thought you should know. :-))

Did you even watch the video clip ?

The guy who said he "looked like a bad dude" was sitting in a helicopter and he said it before the police driving a car arrived to tell him anything.

The video also show him standing by the car with his hands in the air when he is shot.

Try again. Or you mightt take a bit of time to think about why it is so important to you to make it all about evil liberals.

Did you even get the point!? Here, lemme spell it out for you:

I detest cops.  I've detested cops FAR LONGER than institutional racism became the hot-button issue du jour redux ad nauseam!  To me, the problem is police abuse across the board. To others, the problem is police abuse against X minority group.  To me, the real problem is being completely missed in favor of divisive, distracting bovine excrement!

Once again, the real problem here is POLICE ABUSE of American citizens.  I don't give a semi-aerodynamic copulation about who feels the most abused.  GET THIS!

I swear.  Sometimes I feel so misunderstood. :-)

Red, yellow, black and/or white we are Americans. We are human beings.  We don't--or shouldn't--identify ourselves by our membership in any other group.  I am so sick and tired of group identity that I could scream!

Funny, I can't tell any more from that video than I can from this one where the cops actually shot the suspect in the back . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sR1hGpZQ5U

Where's your faux outrage over this unjustified shooting?

Only blacks can be victims.  You know this.  That's ESPECIALLY so when the victim of police abuse is an "avowed racist."

People will likely always identify themselves and others as belonging to groups.  What bothers me is the vast majority jump on a bandwagon irrespective of the truth.

That's what happens when we keep bending over for this wholly destructive us-v-them garbage.  The truth goes out the window.

Yeppers.

@ Jakoba the police were there on the ground before the helicopter was there.  There are 2 minutes not on video were this guy is not responding the female officer's questions and later commands. That is why the other officers came (back-up) and why the helicopter came.  She called in that she had a person not responding to her questions or commands. 

No, his were not in the air when he was shot.  His hand were in the air as he was walking to his SUV. But as he get to the car he drops his right hand to his pocket. This is when both officers fired....both the taser and the firearm, at the same time. The both seen something as a threat at the same time. 

You should watch it again....keep and eye on his right hand it is not in the air, he drops it.

@Nimitz - I have been called worse things. :)

So have I.  Just not today. :-)

The night is young.  ;)

LOL ...

Yeah.  I thought for a minute I was gonna have some fun with a person who's deluded herself into believing she has the heart of a poet, but she called in reinforcements. LOL!