Cop royally messed up. No way to rationalize it or even attempt to defend the situation. I would not allow the cop on the street again if he remains on the force. Shitty intel sure didnt help the cops at all, reports of a guy with a gun were totally wrong and had them in the wrong mindset when they got there, still no excuse.
Its black people being shot, so never.
Its not only black people being shot. Unless you're claiming that they are the only ones that matter?
I don't think anyone condones rioting, even when white people do it after hockey games.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/riots-erupt-in-vancouver-after-canucks-loss-1.993707
But again a black man gets shot by police (or the state) and people bring up bad actions by individual citizens. It's pathetic that people pretend not to know the difference.
Actually... a BLM leader who was teaching a class at Yale said just that, that looting is ok and even beneficial;
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/08/black-lives-leader-defends-looting-in-yale-lecture.html
I grew up white, upper class, southern, and rural, and even I could see there's a fucking problem here well before this (infuriating) incident was added to the pile. What the fuck is wrong with all the people that still deny a problem with cops shooting (especially) black people even exists?
Why "especially" black people? Their lives matter more? Whites get shot more than blacks, just a fyi. Police shooting innocent people period is the problem, not just one color over another. Efforts need to be better in lowering and hopefully stopping this all together.
Those are your results.
1.) We can start by requiring every cop to wear body cameras. If the body camera is found to be inoperable, you get fired. Police work for the people, not the other way around. I'm not sure why in this age of technology this is even being debated.
2.) Any cop that is found to be lying on a police report is fired. Again, how can the police be required to enforce the laws if you don't enforce the police.
3.) The rules of engagement should change.
Who is going to pay for the cameras and the storage? It is incredibly expensive. Even for large cities it would be very hard, it could cripple smaller forces. I would love to see every cop wear one, just doesn't seem feasible yet. So if there is a malfunction the cop gets fired, if it falls off during a fight the cop gets fired, if they are outside the broadcast range, the cop gets fired? Terrible logic, things happen. If found out that the cop intentionally stopped the recording then yes, otherwise no.
2. Depending on the lie, I have no problem with that. Or a pattern of small "white" lies, they should be gone. Hard to expect someone to be honest on the stand if they lie on a report.
3. What rules would you suggest? Them wait to be presented with a gun before they are allowed to shoot, wait until they are actually shot at? I believe the rules are pretty good as is, just have to get cops to enforce them better. In the example you gave where the cop boarded the bus with the gun out, my bet would be that violated a policy, the rules of engagement wouldnt be the issue if so.
So, they shoot the black person with his hands up and don't shoot the non-black person who doesn't have his hands up, is the person that has the object in his hands and is not responding to police commands? And mind you, the black person was shot 3 times, the non-black person - 0.
This is a perfect encapsulation of why there is a Black lives movement. This guys life didn't seem to matter as much as the non black guy's. And anyone with a conscience or empathy should understand why there is so much outrage out there in the Black community.
You don't think white people have been shot with their hands up before? I suggest you research that, it's happened. One of the problems with the BLM movement as you put it, is that all attention goes to them. White guy gets shot? Hardly a peep around here or on news. Case in point, white guy without a gun, not fighting the cops was shot June 25th, no thread here until July 14th, 58 responses as of now. Black guy with an illegal gun resisting arrest and reaching for the gun? Day one post and 200 replies as of now. Police shooting of innocent people of every type needs to be handled. Not putting one over the rest. Yet we always hear of one color more, even though it happens less.
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