Experts: Officers Likely Won’t Be Charged Despite Recording

SACRAMENTO (AP) – A dashboard camera recording of two California police officers discussing hitting a suspect armed with a knife with their police car before appearing to try to run him down does not make it more likely that they will face criminal charges in the fatal shooting of the man that ended the encounter, legal experts said Tuesday.
The officers may have reasonably feared for their lives or public safety, justifying any decision to use their vehicle to hit the man, said Philip Sti