Video shows naked Alabama college student with open arms before he’s fatally shot by officer

[Liberal_in_LA]

Video of the fatal shooting of a naked Alabama college student shows him with his arms outstretched and his palms open seconds before a campus police officer fired.

The Mobile County Sheriff’s Department played the approximately two-minute security video for media Thursday. It was taken by a security camera outside the University of South Alabama police station, where 18-year-old Gil Collar was fatally shot early Saturday morning. The video has no sound.

Police said Collar had taken LSD and was acting aggressively, but an attorney for Collar’s family said the video shows his actions didn’t justify the shooting. The former high school wrestler was struck once in the chest.

On the video, Collar walks slowly toward a campus police station door once and then walks away. Seconds later, he walks back to the station and pounds violently on a glass window. He then walks away from the police station again before an officer, Trevis Austin, comes out with his gun drawn and pointed at the naked student. Collar approaches Austin with his arms outstretched and palms open toward Austin.

They move around the porch, with Collar kneeling at one point, then getting to his feet and again walking toward Austin. The officer keeps backing away from Collar, his gun pointed at the student, as Collar approaches. The two move into the yard, where the view of the camera is partially blocked by the porch columns and lighting. Less than 30 seconds after Austin came out of the building, the video shows Collar falling after having been shot. The police dispatcher can be seen opening the station’s front door in response to the sound of gunfire. A second officer arrives just as Collar is being shot. Collar gets up twice and the officers pursue him.

Sheriff Sam Cochran said two officers handcuffed Collar to subdue him after he was shot, but that could not be clearly seen on the video. A second backup officer arrived just as the two-minute video ended.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/investigators-to-show-police-surveillance-video-of-naked-alabma-student-shooting-death/2012/10/11/29ba4810-1372-11e2-9a39-1f5a7f6fe945_story.html

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1. Ya kinda have'ta wonder.........

.....how the "Public Safety Officer" who pulled the trigger could have known that Collar had dropped acid? Even so, how can they use acid as a reason for killing somebody? Acid doesn't give a person super natural strength or make them violently aggressive in the way that some other substances do. Sounds like this was the work of just another pig who joined "the force" so that he could entertain himself by killing people and then get away with it.

Upon edit to correct big fingers

[malaise]

2. It was cold blooded murder

I hope the family sue the shit out of the university.
People don't send their children to college to be murdered.
Technology is exposing their scumbags.

[jsr]

3. Pretty damning

[Cooley Hurd]

4. How many unarmed people have to die before we reel the pigs in??

THIS is an epidemic.

[ManiacJoe]

5. So, when do _we_ get to see the video?