Father of 18-year-old fatally shot by Ohio police charged with hitting and killing deputy with car

This is the kind of thing people do when they fully believe that there is no path to justice. If we ever held cops accountable, this wouldn't have happened.

Everyone exploding at this, but this headline seems written to stir controversy, and people don't seem to be reading the article.
Two key facts:
It's reported that the 18 year old who was shot and killed was pointing a firearm with an extended magazine at officers when he was shot (though yes, he was running away, so yes, it could have been handled better, but there are thousands of more cut and dry cases to be mad about).
The deputy who was killed may have absolutely nothing to do with what happened
- Key "facts" about your "key facts":
  The cop that shot him CLAIMS the kid pointed the gun at him, but the video evidence contradicts that. In fact, he was prompted to shoot the moment he exited his vehicle by other cops hollering "He's got a gun!" He relied on their statements, not his own experience of seeing the gun.
  The fact that the kid had a gun is automatically in dispute. ALL cops have throwaway guns to be used in exactly this sort of a case. The video does not show him with a gun, but one was on him when he was found? Highly suspicious.
  This kid stole a car, which was recovered. That is not a death penalty situation. Nobody should be murdered over an insured car.
- I really don't think either of those facts mattered to dad. I think what matters is the reality that police are so rarely held accountable in even those cut and dry cases that there is no perception of justice at all.
- "Things police claim" =|= "Facts"
- key facts:
  "reported that" "may have"
- You're saying key facts, but there's no proof at this time that he was aiming a gun at the cops. The article makes that very clear. That has not been established at all. There's nothing that proves he even had a weapon. That's a claim the police made. But has not been proven. You should never ever take police statements as fact. Particularly when they so obviously have motive not to be truthful.
- The second point, I don't really mind. If you cause your department to be viewed with hatred, you're responsible for your "brothers" dying. If they want to avoid this they should try to rehabilitate their image. Until then, they should view everything they do as effecting all of their fellow officers.
- You think you're being reasonable, but you've got rose tinted glasses on
- Coppers should be taught de-escalation, but rarely are, especially in the USA based on what I see.

“Let me be very direct: We cannot allow individuals to flee from officers with a loaded firearm aimed at them,” she said. “When this happens, the outcome is almost always tragic. No one wins, and everyone involved is affected.”

Absolutely disgusting mindset for the police to operate in and it should be a condemnation of them, not an excuse for killing a fleeing person merely suspected of committing a property crime.

Armed gang murders member of the public (with the full intention of “investigating” themselves and finding they did nothing wrong), is shocked that public would kill one of their own, and expects the public to shed tears for their fellow gang member (who was really a great guy… every other gang member loved him).

so the kid, unarmed, was shot in the back because he didn't submit?
- The kid was armed and pointing it at the cops.
  But he also wasn't shooting at them, he was running away. In that scenario, you don't shoot him, because even if he starts shooting he ain't gonna hit shit.

Apparently qualified immunity doesn't make you immune to bumpers.

Make cops ground beef again
- Wouldn't they be ground pork?

This was a very confusing headline. It sounded like they were charging a dead person.

Bottom line is:

18 year old gets shot by police
The father of the 18 year old hit and killed a deputy with his car later on.

Hopefully he got the one who killed his son?
- Dunno, they haven't released the identity of the "victim" so we don't know who the driver killed.
  I'm not going to go so far as to condone this dad's behavior, but I can definitely understand it. Police are never held accountable; what else is there to expect than the spread of vigilante violence if the law won't give us justice?
  Even if the deputy that was hit didn't pull the trigger, they're part of the institution that's the problem. So the logic of the dad to target a deputy, even if they aren't the one that shit his kid, makes sense in a way. I'm sure eventually we'll know if this deputy was the one who killed the father's 18 year old son.
Why can't some headline writers use comas?
Father of, 18 year old fatally shot by Ohio police, charged with hitting and killing deputy, with car
- Have you ever used a comma before
- That is arguably worse
- Calm your shit Shatner
- Going into a coma does not make you a better journalist, and neither does having a stroke
- Whoever taught you how to use commas needs their teaching license revoked because that is probably the worst attempted use of commas I’ve ever seen.
- This reminds me of that chapter in Flowers for Algernon.
- Damn, I know everyone else said it too but honestly wtf is this travesty you've written. It's an affront to the comma and maybe to punctuation everywhere. Hell, your "correction" might be an ungodly abomination born of the netherworld sent to break our poor brains.
- That is not at all how you use commas. You’ve broken your clauses.
  Father of 18 year old, fatally shot by Ohio police, charged with hitting and killing deputy with car.
  That would be correct. Good ACT question lol.
Bunch of fucking tweakers doing tweaker shit and the cops have to chase them.
edit: yeah, ACAB but you motherfuckers do know that there is a subset of people out there doing crimes like car theft and shit, right? The citizens in this case don't seem to be all that upstanding.
One dead dude, one dead pig. Call it even?
- Which is a valid reason to use lethal force?

The guy should get off scott free due to Qualified Immunity. Just like the cops.

The cop was armed and was already known to shoot someone in the back, the father was afraid for his life and had to make a split second decision.
- That cop was no angel
scott free
scot free

Hey, that cop just became a good cop.

Cops who shoot people who aren’t shooting at them and who haven’t been involved in a violent crime deserve to die too.

Our fucking country, where the life of a car is worth more than the life of a human. ACAB.

Huh? The kid stole a car and was fleeing and armed with a loaded gun.
- Fleeing seems like the operative word in that sentence to me.
- Supposedly. Are you aware of the allegations of planting evidence thrown at many, many police officers in the good ol' US of A? It is a known issue and I'll take a criminals word before a police officers.

If people keep using cars as weapons, soon we’ll have to treat them like guns, and not regulate them in any meaningful way.

Destroy the Pigs.

In case anyone finds the headline confusing this is what happened in order

Rodney Hinton the older hit a much beloved semi retired deputy who was directing traffic for a college graduation. He is accused of doing so intentionally but the motive isn't specified. He was not accused of stealing a car nor did it have anything to do with any other specified crime. This is pending trial.
Ryan Hinton, son of Rodney Hinton, was involved in a car theft. He and 3 others were caught in said car and scattered in 4 different directions when police made contact.
During the chase police shot and killed Ryan whom they allege had a gun on him. Indeed a gun was recovered. Purported to be in possession of the young man who was shot.That said the body cam footage is alleged to show another officer yelling about a gun rather than the gun itself from the vantage point of the officer.

Questions:

Is Rodney guilty of killing the deputy on purpose? If so why? Was it instead an accident?

Did the officer that shot the boy know he was the son of Rodney?

Why did Rodney pull out a gun but not fire it?

Is there further evidence showing the history of the particular gun? Fingerprints on the gun? Body cam footage from the other officer that more clearly establishes the gun in the hand of Rodney?

That is not correct. The events, as alleged, before someone jumps down my throat:
Ryan steals a car
Cops try to arrest Ryan
Ryan flees, cops shoot Ryan
Ryan's dad Rodney hits and kills an unrelated cop with his car

Charged him with what? Dining on a succulent meal of revenge?

While I am not defending Rodney, who is has not been found guilty of the charges, I cannot tell you what I would do if my child was taken from me.

I have a spouse and multiple kids. I have parents who still live. I have siblings. Intellectually, I think I would not murder my child's murderer and inflict extra harm on my family through my actions.... but that situation hasn't happened and I have no clue how I would actually react. Right now, my blood is boiling just contemplating it, though.

If I were a single parent of one child, and that child was killed, then I would turn into fucking Liam Neeson without hesitation.

edit: I finished reading the article after posting this. It's not clear that the officer Rodney struck was the same officer who shot Rodney's son, and seems to be unrelated from the wording. I feel for Deputy Henderson's family, and hope he wasn't an innocent who happened to be wearing the same uniform.

Police in the US regularly choose to escalate, and our politicians choose to keep firearms available. All these deaths are on Congress.

Police better keep an eye on mom and any other siblings, as bad decisions clearly run in that family…

Edit: I’m just going to assume the 20 downvoters didn't actually bother to read the article 🤷‍♂️