Myrtle Beach Police Officer Brandon O’Rourke wasn’t wrong for shooting 18-year-old Jerrius Davis. While Davis died, O’Rourke should not face criminal charges, and it makes sense to return his badge and allow him once again to patrol the city’s streets.
Though his actions were reasonable given the circumstances, I don’t know that they were right.
Davis, a Bennettsville teenager, had terse words with a group of young men on April 26. We don’t know what they said or why Davis walked a few yards away from them, bent over, pulled out a gun and fired four shots on a crowded Ocean Boulevard…