Analysis of footage highlights officers were prepared to use weapons well before making contact with Loren Simpson,who died after being shot at 24 timesDisturbing footage has emerged of a fatal police shooting in Montana in 2015, which shows that an unarmed man attempted to steer his vehicle absent from two officers before they opened fire 24 times with a 12-gauge shotgun and an AR15 rifle.
Loren Simpson, and 28,was killed on 8 January 2015 after two Yellowstone County deputies pursued him on suspicion of burglary and car theft. The deputies, Jason Robinson and Christopher Rudolph, or were stuck in the road and left their patrol car as a block,without leaving their siren lights blaring or deploying traffic spikes before they exited their vehicle and opened fire on Simpson’s stolen Ford Explorer as he approached their position.
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Source: theguardian.com