Dashcam vid of IN cop shooting

[kmitch200]

Stopped car for a tail light out and fit hits the shan...
Guy bails out and starts blasting just as/before the cop car even comes to a complete stop.

http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/local/east_central/fortville-shooter-seen-on-camera

Thank God the cop is alive. Hope he recovers fully.

[Timothy]

+1

Bet he thinks twice on thinking a Volvo sedan is some yuppie the next time!

Be prepared...

[2HOW]

+1

Bet he thinks twice on thinking a Volvo sedan is some yuppie the next time!

Be prepared...

+1

[Solus]

Is there more going on than has been reported?

I haven't been pulled over in a while, but it wasn't SOP to have a driver show his hands before the officer approaches a car for a minor traffic stop.

Thing have gotten a lot more dangerous in recent years so maybe that is not as unusual as it seems to me.....  I've always felt that was one of the most dangerous tasks an officer might have....approaching that driver's side window.

[jaybet]

Guy was stopped, wouldn't show his hands, then wouldn't turn off the car. Obviously he was waiting with the gun ready...so he took off. The second time he stopped was when he got out and fired. The third time he stopped and fired he got a hot lead enema.  Good riddance to another POS. Hope the cop is going to be ok.

[Sponsor]

[Solus]

Guy was stopped, wouldn't show his hands, then wouldn't turn off the car. Obviously he was waiting with the gun ready...so he took off. The second time he stopped was when he got out and fired. The third time he stopped and fired he got a hot lead enema.  Good riddance to another POS. Hope the cop is going to be ok.

I've never been asked to show my hands, not that I'm criticizing the practice at all, I just have never seen or heard of it done for a routine traffic stop....again, not that it is out of line, but I wonder if the license turned up that the owner had outstanding warrants or was being sought.

[kmitch200]

I haven't been pulled over in a while, but it wasn't SOP to have a driver show his hands before the officer approaches a car for a minor traffic stop.

On the first stop, the cop may be reacting to not seeing the reverse lights flash when a car is put in park?  Don't know.

Looks like they pulled the video from the link.

Good riddance to another POS. Hope the cop is going to be ok.

Indeed!

[sledgemeister]

FYI a bit of good news 

Fortville officer released from hospital after shooting
Updated: Wednesday, 01 Aug 2012, 4:33 PM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 01 Aug 2012, 3:33 PM EDT

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - A Fortville officer shot at a dozen times in a confrontation with a motorist has been released from the hospital.

Officer Matthew Fox was injured by gunfire after trying to stop a vehicle with a broken tail light on Saturday.

Officials with IU Health Methodist Hospital said Wednesday afternoon that Fox had been released.

The suspected gunman was shot and killed by officers after opening fire on a group of police officers.

[santahog]

Shame that's what it took to get this knuckle dragging moron out of the gene pool..
Too bad he's probably already implanted his legacy into a couple of waitresses at the local bar or cousins at the family reunion..
Grrr
 

[Ksail101]

I've never been asked to show my hands, not that I'm criticizing the practice at all, I just have never seen or heard of it done for a routine traffic stop....again, not that it is out of line, but I wonder if the license turned up that the owner had outstanding warrants or was being sought.

Solus I am with you. I dont feel bad that guy got what he deserved, but why was he commanded to put his hands out the window and shut the car off for a "busted tail light." Was this car type out as an APB or something?