a nighttime traffic stop in Billings
Montana quickly goes wrong why are you
moving your hands around so much while
the dash cam rolls officer Grant
Morrison confronts four people in the
car all of you put your hands up right
now on top of the seats Morrison
recognizes Richard Ramirez a suspect in
an armed robbery get your hands up I'm
going to shoot you I will shoot you and
then he does firing three times hands
up hands up Ramirez died on the scene
and later officer Morrison is caught on
another dash cam breaking down in
tears experts say these situations can
be volatile it can escalate very very
rapidly uh it can escalate in in a
fraction T of a second and it can go
from benign to a deadly force scenario a
seven-person jury ruled the shooting a
justifiable homicide a toxicology report
shows Ramirez had a high level of
methamphetamine in his system
the driver of the car testified Ramirez
was scared do you have any idea what
Richard will be scared
about um going to jail maybe I don't
know Morrison believed the 38-year-old
was reaching for a gun to kill him I
wanted to go home to my family and I
wanted
to see my son grow up Morrison was
cleared of criminal charges in another
shooting last year killing a suspect who
was reaching for a BB gun I'm going to
shoot you lay your hands out the Ramirez
family tells NBC news they are shocked
by the verdict and are planning to file
a civil suit the hardest decision I've
ever had to
make I wish I didn't have to make it
officer Morrison says firing his gun was
the best choice he had Stephany gos NBC
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