Sunburn74
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- Oct 5, 2009
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I get it. He didn't correctly triangulate the position of the stars, the kelvin of the ambient light, the vibratory force of the sound waves in the area to know what information the police officer could take in as he showed his empty hands and so it was the kids fault he got shot. Not the trained professional.But your skipping over an important point, the youth DID have an opportunity to drop the gun early on and chose to keep running and ultimately try and hide the weapon. Usually I don't side with the cops on these matters but in this case the cop was put into a bad situation, he knows the youth is armed, he refuses to drop the gun so the cop now would know he's not facing getting shot at and turns quickly after his hands are hidden and raises them. No, not a "good shoot" but an accident I feel the cop does not deserve much blame for either.
Look here's what going to happen. The cop will be tried for something (reckless discharge or a weapon or manslaughter or something). The city will payout 30+ million and nothing will change. That's the US way of doing things. Nothing changes until it affects white people.
Listen, I've had cops pull guns on me at least 3 times when I was under 25. Once, the cop was jumpy and I thought he was going to shoot me for sure (someone shot in a movie theater and my friends and I happened to be the closest black guys around). I'm not a fan of current policing. And my black skin makes it worse. So, stop with the obtuse stuff.
I think this is one of those situations where it's not cut and dry. The cop could have already decided to shoot him, could have been biased, but what surrounded what happened in that video, makes it a 50-50 situation which you have to give the benefit of the doubt to the cop.
I think this is the problem we have right now. We've been given benefits to the cops for decades and look where its gotten us. They are more trigger happy than ever and readier to falsify documents and allegations than ever. We gave benefit to cops and all they did was lie about what actually happened to protect each other. Thank god for video cameras that are countering the concept of "given the benefit" to police officers. Thank god.

