The case against Republican sheriff nominee Aaron Spencer was dismissed on Thursday after law enforcement lost a dash cam memory card that may have captured the fatal shooting of Michael Fosler.
Without the trial and the evidence the police lost we don’t have all the facts. But the framing in the article makes it sound like he woke up to his daughter missing, went looking, saw her in the guys car, and pursued. The police argue that he had time to call them while chasing the guy rather than forcing his car off the road and shooting him.
The timing and little details can matter a lot so I don’t want to make a judgement, but killing your child’s abductor in a chase is a lot different than killing them in cold blood later out of the blue.
Cop calling cops would likely get high priority, so there is no excuse to execute someone like this. Just follow and let the cops know where the perp is.
He wasn’t a cop that I see, and he did call 911. He called 911 then started driving around his block when he saw his daughter in the passenger side with a man who had been charged with raping her. He ran for office because of what he felt was corrupt handling of his case.
No one can really say how much of an execution vs crime of passion this was because the video of the incident was lost by the sheriff’s office. The judge probably dismissed the charge of second degree murder because the normal thing with spoiliation of evidence is to assume it is favorable to the other party. If he really did execute the guy the cops should have properly presented the evidence.
Without the trial and the evidence the police lost we don’t have all the facts. But the framing in the article makes it sound like he woke up to his daughter missing, went looking, saw her in the guys car, and pursued. The police argue that he had time to call them while chasing the guy rather than forcing his car off the road and shooting him.
The timing and little details can matter a lot so I don’t want to make a judgement, but killing your child’s abductor in a chase is a lot different than killing them in cold blood later out of the blue.
Cop calling cops would likely get high priority, so there is no excuse to execute someone like this. Just follow and let the cops know where the perp is.
He wasn’t a cop that I see, and he did call 911. He called 911 then started driving around his block when he saw his daughter in the passenger side with a man who had been charged with raping her. He ran for office because of what he felt was corrupt handling of his case.
Some details I found with a quick search
No one can really say how much of an execution vs crime of passion this was because the video of the incident was lost by the sheriff’s office. The judge probably dismissed the charge of second degree murder because the normal thing with spoiliation of evidence is to assume it is favorable to the other party. If he really did execute the guy the cops should have properly presented the evidence.